Feats: stamps for the things you train for

Nobody forgets their first 5K. What goes is everything around it: the date, the town, the friend who talked you into signing up.

Feats is a new collection in Pond Passport for the things you train for. It has the races, from a 5K to an ultramarathon, and the studio classes you kept showing up to.

The race ladder

Most runners climb the same ladder. A 5K, then a 10K, then a half marathon. Some keep going to the marathon, and a few go past it.

Each rung is its own illustrated stamp. Open it and tap "I did this." Then tag it to the city, state or country where you ran it, and the race shows up on that place's stamp too.

At the Twin Cities Marathon in Minneapolis.

The Marathon stamp asks one more question. Choose "Ran it" or "Watched it," or both if you've done each. Standing at mile 20 with a sign is a day worth keeping too.

If you ran one of the big-city marathons in the Experiences collection, check in to that stamp with "Ran it" and the Marathon stamp in Feats is collected for you.

Studio feats

Not every feat has a finish line. Feats also has stamps for the classes and practices people commit to.

The first aerial yoga class where you mostly hung upside down and laughed. The Pilates studio you went to every Tuesday for a year. They check in the same way: tap "I did this" and tag the city your studio is in.

The people who trained with you

A race is a group project. Someone ran the training miles with you. Someone drove you to the start at 5 a.m. Someone stood at the finish with your name on a sign.

Add them to the stamp. It keeps them, and their profiles start showing the feats you've shared. A note holds the rest: your finishing time, the playlist, the hill you still talk about.

How "I did this" and stamp history work

"I did this" collects the stamp, and its History section keeps every time after that, newest first. Each place you tag gets its own line, like "Did it in Denver," and each moment you attach with "Add & create a moment" brings its date and the people who were there. To keep two races in the same city apart, log each one as a moment. The top of History shows when you first collected the stamp, so your first 5K keeps its date.

How to start

Open YourPond, find Feats in Pond Passport, and check in to the ones you've done. Start with your first race, even if it was years ago. No finish time required.

Training for something you haven't done yet? Save it to your Bucket List. When you finish and check in, the stamp moves into your collection on its own.

I've run half marathons in Oregon, Tennessee, South Carolina and Maine, and a full marathon in Minneapolis. But my all-time favorite race day is one I didn't run: watching the Chicago Marathon here in Chicago and cheering on the elite runners. That's why the Marathon stamp has "Watched it" too.

Oregon half marathon finish.

Pond Passport is free on the web and in the YourPond iPhone app.

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