How to Win a Free Chipotle With Strava’s Latest Challenge
Strava and Chipotle have launched a marketing partnership that offers three different ways to potentially win free food. Two of these ways include getting outside and running, walking, or using a wheelchair (sorry, no bikes) on Chipotle-branded Strava segments. Here’s what’s included and which parts of the challenge will give you the best chance at free food.
The easiest way to get free food: sign up for text messages.
If you want to make the most of this promotion, the first thing you should do is sign up for the No Smoking Day newsletter – sorry, motivational texting community . Go here to register any time before January 9th.
On January 10th, you will receive an email with instructions on how to claim one of 50,000 free Lifestyle Cups. The lifestyle bowl is essentially a burrito bowl. They come in varieties such as the plant-based bowl (with sofrita) and the high protein bowl (with double chicken).
(Why January 10? Strava previously identified the second Friday in January as the day when people tend to give up on their resolutions; thus, “Quit Smoking Day.”)
Way to get the most free food: Live in one of these 25 cities and run a lot.
Strava is creating “segments” for the competition in 25 specific cities. A segment is a section of road that is associated with a leaderboard in the Strava app. If you are tracking an activity (using your phone or smartwatch) and that activity includes a named segment, you will receive credit for triggering that segment. If you’re running at a popular park, you’ve probably run a ton of segments without even realizing it.
Either way, to take part in this challenge, you’ll need to find one of the official challenge segments and run it as often as possible. Whoever runs this segment the most times this January will earn Local Legend status (also a standard feature of Strava segments), and at the end of the month, the Local Legend will receive Chipotle Rewards credits, good for one run per week for year. An entree can be a burrito, a bowl, an order of three tacos, a quesadilla or a salad. This does not include children’s meals, “three meals a day” or individual tacos.
The full City Challenge rules are here , including links to the segments so you can see where they are. The segments are typically short, about 0.1 or 0.2 miles. They are located in 25 different cities, 23 of them in the USA and one each in Paris and London. In the US, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Washington are among the lucky cities.
Another way to win: live in (or visit) the city with the most miles.
For this latest way to win food, you don’t have to do anything, but the city that earns the most miles on its Chipotle segment will see local Chipotle locations running a buy one, get one free offer at some unspecified location. future date. You don’t have to be a runner or have a Strava account; just keep an eye on the progress.