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Healthy Heart Weekend Sign Up! Feb 10-12

It’s time!!  February will be the 2nd annual Blogger’s Healthy Heart Weekend!

If you want to see last year’s results, click here.

On this weekend, do some kind of activity on 1 of the 3 days of Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.  You don’t have to have a blog in order to join, either.

Like last year, I just want this to be a focus on getting healthy. If you want to walk, that’s fine. Elliptical bunny? Knock yourself out! Take a long bike ride? Go for it! The only stipulation is that you need to take a picture of yourself before, during, or after your event and send it to me. I will post the pictures here. Get creative, too! You don’t have to have your face in the photo if you don’t want to, so have fun with it!

Date: Just before Valentine’s, of course! February 10th, 11th, and 12th! Feel free to chose Friday, Saturday, or Sunday to complete your event.

Distance: Your choice. I know many of you are training for an event, so you can use whatever distance fits in with your training plan. It’s all about a healthy heart, not a specific distance or time.

After you complete your event, please email me the photo and what you did at javaqueen01 (at) yahoo.com .

Please post below if you would like to participate and what you plan to do! Feel free to post about it on your blog if you have one and see how many people we can get to participate! You may grab the logo above and link as well. Last year we had 50 sign ups, but only 36 actually did it.  Let’s get at least that many this year!

I will be giving away some prizes, too.  I just have to think of some.  You can be from wherever in the world since I am the one sending – you don’t have to just live in the US.!

I know 1 prize will be some coffee roasted by yours truly. Or some local tea if the person selected doesn’t drink coffee (GASP!!).

I need to come up with a couple other prizes, but I wanted to get this sign up post going.

Healthy Heart Weekend Roster

Okay!  Here are the results of all who sent me in their entries!  Thank you so much to everyone who participated!  Every time I got a new email in my box this weekend, it made me smile to see what you did.  I hope this starts a new tradition 😀

There was everything from running, walking, swimming, snowshoeing, biking, and elliptical!  People participated who are new to exercise, are training for big events, have injuries, have illnesses, and have personal issues.  Nothing stopped you guys!   I hope I didn’t miss anyone.  Not everyone who signed up completed the weekend, but maybe next time!

A big thanks to Harbinger for the weighted jump rope that will be going to someone listed at the bottom of the post.

Also 2 other receiving either fresh roasted coffee or dark chocolate mint cups courtesy of Team Radiance 😀

Me! 4 miles

John – 20 miles Kathy (my mom!) 1 hour bike and treadmill
Fran – 8 miles

Jen A – 5K

Shelley – 15 mile bike
Jo – 41 minutes

Rachael – 60 minute Stairmaster

Cammy- elliptical 5K

Leah – 5K

Cilla – 6K elliptical

Ginesa 7.35 miles

Susie – 5 miles

Helen – 10 miles

Marisa – 5K

Alissa – 5K

Debby – 6 miles

Kathy

Biz – 5K

Chelsea – Elliptical 5K

Amy 8K

Jody Run

Kimberly – 40 swim laps

Shelly – 3 miles snowshoeing

Jan – walking and biking

Kim K – 4 mile walk

Julie – 5K

Laura – 5 miles

Jessica – 13 mile bike

Kelly – 2 miles running/8miles biking/2 miles running

Desert Agave – 5K

Katie – 6 miles

Pubsgal – 14 mile bike

Pam– 2.6 miles

Cyndall – 4 miles

Kim Z – 9 miles

Drum Roll Please!  Random.org chose 17, 26, and 24.

Winner of the Harbinger Weighted Jump Rope:

Debby – 6 mile walk (debbyweighsin).

Winner of 1 box of Dark Chocolate Mint Cups:

Kim K (4 mile walk)

Winner of 1 bag of fresh roasted coffee:

Shelly – 3 miles snowshoeing (Vergence Ranges)

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Please email me at javaqueen01(at)yahoo.com with your address!

Congrats to all who participated 😀