The getfit@mit challenge begins on January 26, 2009, and ends on April 19, 2009.
All teams must register online at getfit.mit.edu by January 23, 2009.
Teams must consist of between five and eight people. Participation is open to all members of the MIT community and family members aged 16 years and older.
No changes may be made to team names or team rosters after January 23, 2009. Exceptions to the rule against team-roster changes will be made only in the rare situation that a team member has no choice but to drop out before the end of the challenge (serious illness, leaving MIT, or similar circumstances). In such situations, please make the roster-change request by using the “contact us” link on the getfit@mit website (http://getfit.mit.edu).
Individuals may be a member of only one team.
Any physical activity done at a level that increases the heart rate and/or challenges the muscles will count as exercise.
The getfit week runs from Monday through Sunday.
Participants must keep a record of total minutes exercised every day.
Participants’ minutes must be entered online at http://getfit.mit.edu each week. Participants can enter their own minutes or team captains or co-captains can enter minutes for each team member. To be eligible for weekly team and individual prize drawings, participants must enter minutes for the previous week by 11:59 p.m., EST, each Tuesday. Although each week’s enter-minutes function will remain open after that week’s deadline has passed, late-entered minutes will not count toward team or individual eligibility for weekly drawings and will not be reflected in weekly totals or rankings. They will, however, show up in cumulative results and will count toward eligibility for all end-of-challenge prizes. Each week, the getfit@mit database will calculate the average number of minutes exercised by each team. Team and individual results will be posted online at http://getfit.mit.edu.
Weekly prize drawings will be held to award prizes to at least two individuals. All participants meeting the exercise goal for a given week during the challenge will be eligible for that week’s prize drawing for individuals.
At least one team prize will be awarded weekly. All teams whose per-member average meets the exercise goal for a given week during the challenge will be eligible for that week’s prize drawing for individuals. Additional team contests will also be held during some weeks of the challenge. Details and requirements of these special contests will be posted on the getfit@mit website (http://getfit.mit.edu).
Each team with a per-member exercise average that meets the weekly exercise goal for at least 10 of the 12 weeks during the challenge will be eligible for the Grand Prize, the winner of which will be determined by random drawing among all eligible teams at the end of the challenge.
“Onward & Upward” prizes will be awarded by random drawing to two individuals at the end of the challenge. To be eligible for this prize drawing, an individual does not need to have met weekly exercise goals, but he or she must have recorded exercise minutes for every week of the challenge and must have demonstrated a steady and consistent increase in exercise minutes from week to week.
Organizers of the getfit@mit challenge and members of their families are ineligible to win individual prizes. Teams with ineligible members are ineligible for team prizes.
The exercise goal for each week of the challenge will be as follows:
