Healthy Shasta’s Walktober 2025 Challenge is Coming Soon!
Are your feet ichin’ for a challenge? Scratch that itch with some healthy “competish”! Step into the Walktober Challenge and enjoy the fall weather while getting active, winning prizes, supporting a local charity, and exploring the beauty of our surrounding area!
Find a team of coworkers, friends, family, school clubs, neighborhood groups, or any collection of people. Walktober is a great opportunity to build camaraderie and – if you’re walking or competing with coworkers – encourage workplace wellness.
It is free to play and use the platform, thanks to a donation from Dignity Health! Active participants are eligible for prize drawings of local gift cards and Whiskeytown/Lassen National Park passes. Winning teams receive cash donations for charity (can’t donate to your own workplace.) Must live or work in Shasta County to win.
Follow Healthy Shasta on social media for updates and check back here for more information on how to start or join a walking group with coworkers, friends, or family. Sign-ups will be open starting September 15, 2025
Let the fun begin on October 1st. Healthy Shasta | Facebook
Sign-up and Join a Team by October 5, 2025.
Teams are ranked by the average of every member’s daily steps, so having more members does not equal more steps. Building a team of random Facebook friends won’t give you a leg up. It’ll take everyone on your team putting their best foot forward.
Step 1: Sign-up and Get Those Steps In.
Use your personal device to sign-up for the Wellbeing+ platform (formerly MoveSpring). If you participated before, you will need to download the new Wellbeing+ app to participate. Click this link to join the challenge.
Enter or ensure organization code is “walktober25” in the current challenges to sign-up, and confirm the organization is Healthy Shasta.
Follow this link for step-by-step directions to get set up on Wellbeing+
After you join Walktober25, you can set your profile image, sync your step tracking device, make your personal step goal, and make or join a team.
Step 2: Join the Challenge and Build (or Join) a Team.
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! 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 and to be eligible for the final prize drawings, you need to have a team of 4 or more and you all have to walk an average of 6,000 daily steps each at the end of the challenge.
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 final prize drawings.
Give It a Good Name.
What’s in a name? Everything! 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 for meeting the 6,000 step average/day goal and just for moving those feet.
Only challenge participants who work or live in Shasta County are eligible to receive prizes and must show participation to win. Prizes are “as is” and while supplies last. Healthy Shasta staff and steering committee members may not win individual prizes.
Teams with active participation, i.e. teams with a cumulative daily average of 6,000 steps or more, will be randomly selected to give a $500 cash prize to a local nonprofit. This is a great occasion to encourage your workplace or community to join a team and rally for an organization they love. There will be two drawings for two separate $500 nonprofit donation prizes – one for workplace teams and one for community-based teams. This donation must be given to an organization that your team does not work for – it is a charitable gift, after all!
Cash prizes shall only be donated to nonprofit organizations that are located in Shasta County with tax exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Funds may not be designated for political or sectarian religious purposes. Faith-based organizations designated by the IRS as tax-exempt 501(c)(3) that do not discriminate and serve the entire community without regard to belief may receive funds for nonsectarian activities. One organization per prize.
Keep in the Know:
The Wellbeing+ 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.
Sync Your Favorite Step Tracker
When you join the Wellbeing+ platform, you will be prompted to sync your step tracking app or device. You can, also, access your device under My Devices. Help your Wellbeing+ profile stay up to date by regularly updating your step tracker and syncing to your Wellbeing+ 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 seven days to have them included.
Wellbeing+ provides the following user guides to help you get set up:
Wellbeing+ desktop and mobile app Manual Entry
Still need help? Reach out to the Wellbeing+ Support Team
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