Get your running shoes on with City Peaks

Fancy a bit of a run in your lunch hour then take a look at City Peaks, a challenge that takes you to the top of the world.

Their website explains the challenge as, 'Office life is increasingly deskbound, and staring out at the city skyline while slumped at a computer isn’t good for our health or sense of adventure. So Digit thought: why not ditch the lift and turn taking the stairs into mountain climbs that make it fun to get fit? City Peaks Challenge is a game where players race each other up the office stairs. Inspired by tower running - the sport of running up the stairs of skyscrapers – it’s the ultimate cardiovascular exercise. Just 15 minutes of tower running equals the workout of a 30 minutes run, and with City Peaks it’s also fun.'

Basically they use NFC technology with players swiping their Oyster cards on readers at the bottom and top of the office staircase that record how far and fast they climb. Each player logs in online to start their climbing mission.

You can see how climbers are doing by tracking their flags on the faces of iconic London buildings, visualised as mountains. The first climber to place their flag on the summit conquers the mountain; then everyone’s scores are recorded.

Take a look here and see if you can take up the challenge and beat London's City Peaks.