---
title: Managing your activities
description: View, sync, upload, edit, and delete sports activities on your DistantRace profile
order: 24
---

# Managing your activities

**Path:** Profile → **My workouts** (`/accounts/my_workouts/`)

## Activity list

Shows synced workouts with sport type, date, distance, and whether each activity **counts** toward your events. Open an activity for map, splits, and inclusion details.

## Why an activity doesn't count

DistantRace explains exclusions (wrong sport, outside date window, missing GPS, etc.). See [Why activities are missing](why-activities-are-missing.md).

## Manual sync by date

Pull historical activities from connected apps for a date range you missed — useful after connecting Garmin or Polar mid-challenge.

**Path:** My workouts → **Sync** (or activity list sync action)

## Upload a file

When auto-sync is unavailable, upload **GPX, FIT, or TCX** files:

1. My workouts → **Upload**
2. Select file and sport type
3. Wait while the file **processes** — large imports show a progress counter until all activities are parsed
4. Activities appear in your list when processing completes

**TCX** is common for Fitbit exports and some watch apps. See [Extracting activity files](../extracting-activity-files/index.md) for export instructions from other apps.

## Create a manual workout

When an organizer enables **manual workout acceptance** on a challenge, you can log a workout without a GPS file:

1. My workouts → **Add activity** (or **Create manually** on the upload page)
2. Fill sport type, date, distance, and duration
3. Save — the activity processes like an uploaded file

Organizers may need to approve it — [Advanced challenge settings](../running-events/advanced-challenge-settings.md).

## Activity detail actions

Open any activity from the list to:

- **Submit to event** — attach a private/synced workout to a specific challenge or competition you joined
- **Remove from event** — stop counting this workout toward one challenge (does not delete the activity)
- **Move to another challenge** — when you joined multiple events in the same club, reassign the workout from one challenge to another
- **Assign to child registrations** — for [child subaccounts](registering-for-someone-else.md), tick which children's competition entries should use this parent-recorded activity
- **Assign to child challengers** — same for step or sports challenges with subaccounts enabled
- **Delete photos** attached to the activity

Results recalculate in the background after submit, move, or remove actions.

## Edit or delete

- **Edit** — change sport type or metadata when you picked the wrong category
- **Delete** — removes the activity and recalculates challenge results

Organizers may need to re-approve edited activities if [manual workout acceptance](../running-events/advanced-challenge-settings.md) is enabled.

## Unapproved activities

If an organizer **manually rejected** a workout (when [manual workout acceptance](../running-events/advanced-challenge-settings.md) is enabled), the activity appears under **Unapproved** or shows a banner on the detail page with the organizer's reason.

Contact the organizer through [Contact the organizer](contact-the-organizer.md) if you believe the activity should count. They can accept it from the challenge **Workouts** list.

## Related

- [Connections with apps](../connections-with-apps/supported-apps.md)
- [Participate in a challenge](participate-in-a-challenge.md)