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May 6, 2013
Photo at left: Onward and Upward winner Jen Graham (center) is surrounded by her CaREARS in Gear teammates, from left, Tiffany Hogan, Marilyn Cronin, Glenn Cunningham, and Sam Ha. Not pictured: Team member Bryn Burkhart. Photo at right: Onward and Upward winner Chris Vidal.
Chris Vidal from Bates Beavers and Jen Graham from CaREARS in Gear... more
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May 6, 2013
Grand Prize winners Secret Squirrel #1, from left, Lauren Collins, Kenny Sims, Roz Wesley, John Boughner, Dan Kerrigan, and Mike Angers. Pictured separately at right: Mike Eppner.Congratulations to Secret Squirrel #1, this year’s getfit@mit Grand Prize winning team, chosen at random from the 115 teams whose minutes-exercised average met the goal for at... more
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May 6, 2013
Top individual finishers in the Lincoln Laboratory Lose2Win program were, from left, Christine Randlett, Mark Smith, and Diane Marron.Participants in the 2013 Lincoln Laboratory Lose2Win competition, a program run in conjunction with getfit@mit, are ending their 12-week double challenge with fewer pounds but a hefty amount of pride in their accomplishments... more
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May 6, 2013
First-year Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences graduate student Justin Bandoro is the winner of this year’s getfit@mit blogging prize, awarded by random drawing among all participants who blogged regularly throughout the challenge. For his efforts, Bandoro, who blogged as FeMan, takes home an iPad mini and the satisfaction of meeting his goal of exercising consistently “during the... more -
May 2, 2013
Tunde Kiss (second from right) participates in a recipe-development meeting at Clover headquarters in Harvard Square.It takes time to prepare good food, and, as it turns out, it takes even more time to plan the preparation of good food. Choosing six finalists in the getfit@mit Facebook-based “Create a Sandwich” contest was just the beginning for the recipe-development team from... more
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April 30, 2013
The getfit@mit Finish Line 5K has been rescheduled for Sunday, June 2, at 10:00 a.m.
The rescheduled race will be dedicated to the memory of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier. We hope all members of the getfit community will join us on that day in cheering on the runners and remembering a young man who embodied the spirit of getfit and the best of MIT.
Due to ongoing repercussions of the events of the last couple of weeks, MIT and Cambridge... more
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April 29, 2013
Week Twelve results have been posted, and we have our last set of winners for getfit@mit 2013. On Thin Ice wins our Week Twelve team prize, chosen at random from the 124 teams whose average exercise minutes met or exceeded the Week Twelve goal of 300 minutes. Each team member has won a gift certificate to DAPER.
Our individual prizes this... more -
April 26, 2013
Congratulations on completing this year’s challenge. We hope it provided the habits and motivation for you to keep moving and staying fit in the coming months.
Last year, the getfit@mit organizers piloted stayfit@mit, which allowed getfit participants to continue using the website to set goals and track exercise minutes after the challenge had ended. But since web statistics show that very few people chose to participate, to conserve resources, we will not be repeating stayfit this year.
We invite you to send us your thoughts in our upcoming getfit survey, and also to follow... more