Pictou County Get Active Challenge - Do It for the Health of It!
You Could Win Great Prizes!
The Pictou County Get Active Challenge is an 8-week challenge to help Pictou County residents get active. Participants in the challenge will be provided with a computer program (actually just a simple Excel file) in order to record all of their physical activities. This program will then convert the amount of time spent in an activity into steps and then into kilometers and miles. A huge variety of activities can be captured (anything from biking to walking to fishing, gardening, and billiards) and converted to steps, kilometers, and miles for the challenger to track just how much she/he is doing each day.
Don’t have Excel or don’t like using computer program? No problem! The Active Pictou County Coordinator will do the recording for you. All you have to do is send her an email or call her once a week with all of you physical activities and time spent doing them. She will then provide you with your results.
Start the challenge at any time during the first 7 weeks (May 1 to June 26)
You can start the challenge at any time during the first 7 weeks and each week you record (or have the Active Pictou County Coordinator record) your activities and send them into Active Pictou County earns you a ballot for the prize draw! Since this is an 8 week challenge, it means that you can earn up to a maximum of 8 ballots. Your chances of winning a prize are greater the sooner you get started on the challenge!
Be One of the First 50 Participants to Sign Up for the Challenge and Receive a Prize Package!!!
If you’re one of the first 50 participants to sign up for the challenge and send in a full week of activities, you will receive an awesome prize package!! This package consists of a cool pedometer to record your steps, a swanky Active Pictou County T-Shirt, and the soon-to-be coveted Active Pictou County Frisbee!!! You may also get lucky and receive a water bottle or hacky sack as well (as long as the the Active Pictou County Coordinator can find these things in her messy office)!!!
Lets’ See How Far Pictou County Can Get Across Canada in 8 Weeks!
After each week of the challenge, participants are encouraged to send in their results and the active Pictou County Coordinator will tally up all the steps, miles, and kilometers of all the participants and map out the distance. You will be able to see how we are doing as a county each week as the website will be updated with all the results. Can Pictou County get all the way across Canada in 8 weeks? Can they get across the Canada more than once during the challenge? The more people taking the challenge, the further we will get. Maybe we will get to the moon!!!
Want to Compete as A Team?
If your organization, group of friends, or family want to compete in a The Get Active Team Challenge all you have to do is provide your team name on the sign up form. Overall team results will be tabulated each week and posted on the website for all to see. As well two trophies will be awarded to the top teams at the end of the challenge. One award will be for the team that is the most active and gets the farthest across Canada (better get lots of people signed up for your team!). The other award will be for the team that has the highest average steps, kilometers, and miles per team member (you won’t need lots of team members but you’ll have to be super active to win!).
Click Here To Sign Up and Get Started On the Challenge!!!