{"id":1606,"date":"2021-10-29T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2021-10-29T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T22:42:34","slug":"october-29-employee-fitness-challenge-high-five-friday-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/2021\/10\/29\/october-29-employee-fitness-challenge-high-five-friday-message\/","title":{"rendered":"October 29 &#8211; Employee Fitness Challenge High Five Friday Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday everyone. I\u2019m super excited about Halloween this weekend and especially because the weather is supposed to be nice for the little trick or treaters! I hope you try to abstain from too much candy though!<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s (Saturday, October 30) weather promises to be nice too so that is great for the group bike ride along the Vedder with Ana Adamik. Many of you have signed up, but even if you haven\u2019t, feel free to join the group at 9:30. Details about where to meet are on our website. Why don\u2019t you wear costumes for the ride? That would be super fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/hr\/health-well-being\/fitness-challenge\/\">https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/hr\/health-well-being\/fitness-challenge\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for continuing to submit your weekly progress reports and congratulations to this week\u2019s winner \u2013 <strong>David McGuire<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>who has won a $25.00 gift card to Sport Chek!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very important to submit your progress report this Monday especially if you\u2019ve been working on the two challenges \u2013 <strong>Squatober and Walk to Harrison<\/strong>. They both end this Sunday, October 31 so you\u2019ll want to let me know if you participated, and if so, if you completed them. You can indicate that on the form. I can\u2019t wait to see how you all did and who is going to walk away with some AMAZING prizes!<\/p>\n<p>And we aren\u2019t slowing down \u2013 Monday is the start of a new two-week challenge. Back by popular demand is <strong>BINGO!<\/strong> Try to complete as many squares as possible over the next two weeks. Once the card is complete, print, scan and send back to me! <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/10\/Bingo-Card.pdf\">Bingo Card<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Meditation\/Mindfulness<\/strong> series is going great and I hope all participants are enjoying it and are starting to put what they are learning into practice. Thank you again to Christine Slavik for all she\u2019s done for us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DanceFit<\/strong> was super fun yesterday! And I\u2019m definitely feeling a bit sore today \u2013 which is good! We are going to run some more classes soon so stay tuned for dates, times and registration details. Thank you Susan Francis.<\/p>\n<p>Our walking groups are doing great! Join us\u00a0 on Mondays (12:00) and Wednesdays\u00a0 (1:00) in Abbotsford and at 12:00 in Chilliwack.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1609 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/10\/Zoe-with-dogs-at-Vedder-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/10\/Zoe-with-dogs-at-Vedder-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/10\/Zoe-with-dogs-at-Vedder-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/10\/Zoe-with-dogs-at-Vedder.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zoe Strazza has offered to lead a <strong>group hike in the Chilliwack Community Forest<\/strong> on Saturday, November 6 at 12:00 p.m.\u00a0 Dogs are allowed on the trail. Zoe loves taking her fur babies, Lexie and Callie there whenever she gets the chance. Bring your family out for a wonderful afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Maps:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chilliwack.com%2Fmain%2Fparks%2Fdocuments%2Fmaptopark.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7CNancy.Scarrow%40ufv.ca%7Cc8229e9ba394481d921d08d995acf8d5%7Ca3d10b1dc22648f9a6db976df918187e%7C1%7C0%7C637705392403067013%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=lJnvilF6H8JgF6hLbdzGvM%2FyNNi58VYAPr3p2YOQedA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/www.chilliwack.com\/main\/parks\/documents\/maptopark.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chilliwack.com%2Fmain%2Fparks%2Fdocuments%2FCommunityForestKioskMapFront_32x48_20200604.pdf&amp;data=04%7C01%7CNancy.Scarrow%40ufv.ca%7Cc8229e9ba394481d921d08d995acf8d5%7Ca3d10b1dc22648f9a6db976df918187e%7C1%7C0%7C637705392403067013%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=OVIMKn30YTuC4jRAWQLtzJsapa76yJ7xD8v6H0Q4vuU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/www.chilliwack.com\/main\/parks\/documents\/CommunityForestKioskMapFront_32x48_20200604.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information on all of our events and activities can be found on the Fitness Challenge webpage so check it out regularly so you don\u2019t miss anything!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again everyone for another great week. I\u2019ve been getting so many positive emails and messages from you so I\u2019m so glad you are appreciating this program. It really motivates me to do better all the time when I hear your stories and see your pictures \u2013 keep them coming.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday everyone. I\u2019m super excited about Halloween this weekend and especially because the weather is supposed to be nice for the little trick or treaters! I hope you try to abstain from too much candy though! Tomorrow\u2019s (Saturday, October 30) weather promises to be nice too so that is great for the group bike &#8230; <a title=\"October 29 &#8211; Employee Fitness Challenge High Five Friday Message\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/2021\/10\/29\/october-29-employee-fitness-challenge-high-five-friday-message\/\" aria-label=\"More on October 29 &#8211; Employee Fitness Challenge High Five Friday Message\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,4,10,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employee-stories","category-events","category-featured","category-fitness-challenge","category-information-and-resources","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}