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Onward and Upward winners

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2008 grand prize winners: Got Fit?

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Week Twelve winners

April 25, 2008

Week Twelve results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

Team Alpha Super Awesome Cool Dynamite Wolf Squadron has won our Week Twelve team prize, chosen at random from the 116 teams whose average exercise minutes met or exceeded the Week Twelve goal of 300 minutes. Each team member has won a $25 DAPER gift certificate which can be used toward any of the services offered by DAPER, including classes, personal training, and massages. (more…)

Week Eleven winners

Week Eleven results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

Beauties and the Beasts have won our Week Eleven team prize, chosen at random from the 105 teams whose average exercise minutes met or exceeded the Week Eleven goal of 300 minutes. Each team member has won a pair of AMC Theatre Gold Passes. (more…)

Happy Spartans get creative!

April 11, 2008
Congratulations to the Happy Spartans, our 2008 Creative Exercise champions. For the contest, the team members, all current or former employees in MIT’s Department of Facilities, decided to spice up their daily walks by adding a jump-rope component. (more…)

Superstitious getfitters win autographed photos!

April 9, 2008

Congratulations to Carole Trainor and Lisa Monks, whose Red Sox superstitions have won them autographed photos of two current team members in a random drawing among getfit participants who shared their stories with us in this special contest. Trainor, a member of the OddSox getfit team, has won an autographed photo of infielder Kevin Youkilis. Monks, of The Fireballs, takes home a signed picture of relief pitcher Javier Lopez.

In her winning entry, Trainor recounted how two “bendy figure” giveaways from a “Train the Trainer” workshop contributed to the Red Sox’s successful 2004 season, (more…)

More Red Sox superstitions

April 9, 2008

In addition to the two randomly chosen winning entries, we received some other great Red Sox superstitions as part of our contest:

Matt Bacigalupo of S-Print! tells us that he sits in a different spot each inning while watching games, but, he adds, “it isn’t random at all. In the first inning, I sit to have the same visual angle as defensive player #1 (the pitcher), in other words, straight on. In the third inning, I move over to get an angle like the first baseman, and by the fifth, I have rotated around to sit with a third baseman’s view. I only do this for (more…)

Who’s doing getfit this year?

March 28, 2008

This year’s getfit@mit fitness challenge attracted more than 2,200 individuals on 318 teams. Roughly half of all 2008 participants say they were part of a getfit team during a previous year.

About 55 percent identified themselves as staff or faculty. Students make up almost (more…)