Current Challenges

Walktober 2024 Details

The Walktober Challenge invites you to walk out your door and embrace real life this fall! Make a team of four or more coworkers, friends, family, or neighbors and start stepping. Walktober began as an opportunity to build connections and encourage workplace wellness and has grown into one of our favorite local challenges for everyone in Shasta County. Last year, we hit our maximum number of users pretty quickly and a lot of folks were unable to join. This year, The Redding Rancheria has donated funding to increase the number of users by 200! But make sure you sign up early, so your spot is secured! Sign-ups will be open starting September 23, 2024.

It is free to sign up. Active participants are eligible for weekly, random prize drawings. Must live or work in Shasta County to win.

What’s new this year:

This year, Healthy Shasta was awarded a grant from The Redding Rancheria to add another 200 participants (1,400 max)! Hopefully, we will not hit max capacity this time around. Thank you, Rancheria!
Registrations open on 9/23/24 and you can register here using the code X542WDY69P. See below for step-by-step registration details. Register using your personal smart phone for best integration with tracking. If you don’t have a smart phone, you can register online (from your personal computer) and sync your FitBit or other wearable device or log your steps manually.
The app now has Android integration/Google Fit/Google Wear!
There are two additional set up questions this year to determine if you are a workplace team and where you work. Once you are all set on the platform, create a team and share the team name with those you want to join. Teams must have 4 or more participants.
This year, we are changing up the prizes (all prizes are still limited to people/teams who live and/or work in Shasta County):
1. The workplace team with the highest daily step average over the 31 days will win a $500 grant to use for wellness supplies/equipment/tech for their workplace! Usage must have a wellness focus and must be approved by Healthy Shasta and the winning team’s Executive leadership prior to purchase. Prize cannot be split between multiple organizations/workplaces. Winning team must agree on one workplace for grant award and consist of four or more members who work at the designated workplace. More details and restrictions will be shared upon challenge completion.
2. Weekly random prize drawings (Monday mornings) from those who met their personal goals the previous week.
3. Non-workplace teams of four or more will compete for a large gift basket of local prizes. The non-workplace team with the highest daily step average over the 31 days of the challenge will be the winner.

There is a bonus fun challenge you can complete as an individual this year. It is a 100-mile, fall-themed challenge that all users will be able to track their individual progress on. Challenge your friends to get to each milestone in the challenge!
The chat feature is now integrated into the mobile app! You can post chat messages to your team, direct to other users, or to the whole challenge. We ask that users are respectful and that we do not engage in “calling out” other users. Sometimes people have difficulty syncing their devices or are not using the mobile app. Calling them out on the chat doesn’t reach them and it only seeds discontent. If you believe you or another user is having trouble with tracking their miles, please message support using the drop down in the app/site.

How to Sign Up

Step 1: Sign-up on or after September 23, 2024

Use your personal device to sign-up. Click on the invitation link to sign-up. The challenge code should be set to X542WDY69P to sign-up, and confirm the organization is Healthy Shasta.

Follow this link for step-by-step directions or follow this video: How Do I Set Up a MoveSpring Account? | MoveSpring Help Center

After you sign-up, you can set your profile image, sync your step tracking device, make your personal step goal, and join the Healthy Shasta Walktober Challenge.

Step 2: Join the Challenge and Build (or Join) a Team.

Find the Challenges section on the MoveSpring platform and click to join the Healthy Shasta’s Walktober Challenge 2024.

Once you have joined the Challenge, find your dream team of four or more that are willing to step up for fun, fitness, prizes, and a good cause! Worksites are encouraged to compete as a team or start a friendly competition between coworkers with multiple teams. Teams of friends, family, schools, neighborhood groups, or any collection of people may also participate. Teams work best if they consist of 4-15 members, but there is no cap on how many walking enthusiasts can be on a team. Just remember, you can be part of only one team.

Are you a free agent who doesn’t have a worksite or community team to join? Never fear, you can still join the challenge by participating in the Free Agent Team. Free Agent Team members are eligible for individual prizes. Sorry, Free Agents, your team is not eligible for the team prizes.

Follow this link for step by step directions: How Do I Set Up a MoveSpring Account? | MoveSpring Help Center

Give It a Good Name.
What’s in a name? Everything! Team Captains: choosing a team name is your first leadership task. Start off on a good foot by selecting a name that people in your company, school or neighborhood will recognize. “XYZ Business HR Department” or “Saratoga Neighborhood Strollers” are great examples.

Win Prizes.
Competing in the Walktober Challenge means there are plenty of opportunities to win prizes! To keep energized, weekly prizes will be randomly awarded to individuals who meet their step goals.

Prizes are “as is” and while supplies last. Healthy Shasta staff and steering committee members may not win individual prizes.

Keep in the Know.

The MoveSpring platform provides several ways to get challenge information including announcements and content.

Announcements will appear under your activity dashboard.

Scroll to the bottom to find current and past content including healthy living topics, challenge information, and winner announcements.

Healthy Shasta may also use your email to communicate with you about challenge information (looking at you prize winners) or future Healthy Shasta activities. You may unsubscribe at any time.

Turn on Your MoveSpring or It Didn’t Happen!
Be sure to turn on your MoveSpring notifications. Follow @healthyshasta on Facebook or Instagram to be notified about special Walktober events and prize announcements. This challenge is open to everyone – from Work Walkers, Mom Walkers, Dog Walkers, Mall Walkers, Silly Walkers, Meet Up Group Hikers, Model Walkers to Costumed Walkers and everyone in between! Fitness, fun, funky walking shoes and stepping up for cool prizes and a good cause – that’s what Walktober is all about!

Sync Your Favorite Step Tracker

When you join the MoveSpring platform, you will be prompted to sync your step tracking app or device. You can, also, access your device under My Devices. Help your MoveSpring profile stay up to date by regularly updating your step tracker and syncing to your MoveSpring account.

If your step tracker is not on the list or you are kicking it old school with a pedometer, you can choose manual entry. Remember to enter your steps at least once every five days to have them included.

MoveSpring provides the following user guides to help with manual entry:

MoveSpring Desktop Manual Entry

MoveSpring App Manual Entry

Questions about the challenge? Please email admin@healthyshasta.org

Healthy Shasta Walks Passport

Get Ready for the 2024 Healthy Shasta Walks Passport

Do you have a goal to get moving more this winter?

Get motivated with the fun challenges on the new 2024 Healthy Shasta Walks Passport which begins January 1- February 29, 2024.

Individuals of all ages and abilities can participate in the Healthy Shasta Walks Passport Challenge. All participants must live or work in Shasta County.

All participants who complete and check off at least 10 different walks on the Walks Passport are eligible to be entered into a prize drawing.

Participants who black out the passport (complete all 25 walks) will also be entered into a separate drawing for a sporting goods store gift card. Walks cannot be counted twice.

By March 1, 2024, all passports must be submitted to admin@healthyshasta.org, or postmarked to Healthy Shasta, 2650 Breslauer Way, Redding, CA 96001. Prize drawing winners will be notified by March 15, 2024. Prizes must be collected by March 30, 2024, or prizes will be donated to future Healthy Shasta activities.