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Step It Up 2025

The Town of Edson is once again challenging Edson & Yellowhead County to Step it Up and increase their physical activity levels with this four-week step challenge. The 18th Annual Step it Up Challenge will begin Thursday, May 1st and run until Thursday, May 29th @ 11:59PM. It will have families, friends, and businesses form teams of 3 or more to compete against each other for the highest team average each week!

Each team will be required to nominate a team captain who will oversee motivating the team, keeping them organized, AND entering their team’s weekly average. Each team member must provide their own pedometer, record their steps taken each day, and report their weekly steps to their captain every Thursday starting May 8th. Registration is $5/participant, and you will receive local coupons, a participant gift and have a chance at winning the weekly prize draw & team prizes at the end. Be sure to join the “Step it Up” Group under the Town of Edson Community Services Facebook page to stay up to date on the challenge. Updates will also be sent to the captains via email to share with their team.

You must register by April 22nd. Registration is in person only at the Leisure Centre. Please only register your team once it is finalized.

 For more information email hannahm@edson.ca

Are you up for the challenge?

How to calculate your weekly average: Click Here  

  1. Team Captain responsibilities:
    1. Register their team
    2. Ensure the team members have submitted their steps to them and submit them weekly by Thursday at noon via this link:  _____________
      1. Motivate their team!
      2. Share their team’s steps with everyone (if mutually agreed upon)
      3. Educate team members on any rules or changes and share the weekly standings with the
      4. Distribute the coupons/participant prizes to their
  2. Prizes:
    1. Team:
      • We will award 3x $100 gift certificates to a local restaurant at the end to:
        • Highest Steppers- One Week
        • Highest Steppers- Average of all the weeks
        • Most Improved Team- Across all the weeks
  1. Weekly:
    • All teams averaging over 70,000 steps for that week are eligible for the weekly prize draw. We will draw team names and it is up to the Team Captain to award the Some ideas are most improved, highest stepper, random draw, etc.
  1. Rules:
  • Steps must be recorded on a pedometer. Simple pedometers, smart phones, smart watches are all allowed. Please recognize that each one of these have different tracking methods and we cannot monitor how each one tracks (ex. there may be differences between how an apple watch tracks a traditional clip-on pedometer).
  • For the sake of consistency and fairness, the value submitted each week must be exactly what your pedometer reading is. Converting a physical activity such as swimming or biking into a step count and adding it to your weekly total is not permitted in this challenge.
  • We appreciate everyone’s integrity in this challenge, we may check in with teams whose steps are unusually high.