Tuesday, 12 November 2019

mywellness challenge club: Chase the Turkey

It's time to chase the turkey again this December. If you've not run this challenge before, it's great fun for members and staff alike, gets lots of people talking and running in the gym, and is great for social media and enagement with local businesses. 

The idea is that everyone signs up for a running challenge, one of your instructors or staff is The Turkey, and everyone who runs further than the turkey for the first 14 days of December enters the prize draw to win... a turkey (or equivalent).

If you can get a local butchers shop to donate a turkey, or hamper (in return for some publicity) this makes for a great prize, but a voucher for another local shop, or for a national retailer works too.

We want lots of people to be in the draw at the end of the challenge, so make sure the turkey doesn't run too far or too fast!

The mywellness challenge app makes this a great challenge, but you could set-up a whiteboard or spreadsheet and ask everyone to (honestly) log their distance run on treadmills, or on other running apps... honesty is the best policy, but at the end of the day, this is supposed to be fun!
  • Name: Chase the Turkey
  • Type: Distance Run
  • Won by: Whoever runs the furthest (but basically, further than the turkey!)
  • Time/Duration: 1 December for 14 days
  • Prize: Entry into the prize draw to win... a turkey!
  • Individual
Update your social media pages, notice boards, etc with the leaderboard every couple of days, and call out members who have been overtaken by the turkey, encouraging them to do a little more to get back in the draw. Take plenty of photos and tag all participants that you can

Success Tracking: % of Active Members taking part, % of Participants who beat The Turkey

Here's a quick clip showing you how to set-up the challenge on mywellness:


Would you like a 12-month challenge calendar, monthly challenge ideas, a copy of our challenge e-book, and free webinars and tips on running engaging mywellness challenges? Then click here to join the mywellness challenge club today.


If you'd like to talk about having regular challenges set-up, run, managed, and measured at your club, drop us a line to challenge@ggfit.com

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