{"id":8167,"date":"2016-05-23T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T08:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T09:06:15","slug":"discovery-vitality-active-rewards-discriminate-against-hikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/discovery-vitality-active-rewards-discriminate-against-hikers\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Vitality Active Rewards discriminate against hikers."},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a member of Discovery Vitality Active Rewards<\/a> program which encourage exercise through exercise. \u00c2\u00a0Each week, which run from Saturday till the following Friday, a points goal needs to be achieved for certain benefits and awards needs to be obtained. \u00c2\u00a0For example, 100 points gets allocated for taking more than 10000 steps.<\/p>\n

However the points allocated are highly scewed towards gym exercise, running or cycling and totally discriminates against hikers. \u00c2\u00a0I am going to use a hike I did past Saturday, 21 May 2016 to explain my point.<\/p>\n

I hiked for 23.27km in the Kogelberg Nature Reserve over rugged terrain and up and down mountains carrying a daypack with water and food for the day. \u00c2\u00a0I use Runkeeper to track the hike and here is a screenshot of the hike with the details:
\n\"Runkeeper<\/p>\n

Here is the splits per km:
\n\"Runkeerper<\/p>\n

and below is a Google Map which show the terrain that was hiked.<\/p>\n