Seven teams of two consisting of both public health and home care staff sign up to participate in this amazing adventure at King’s Park on May 26, 2006. Teams had to follow clues that took them around to various areas of the park. Then team members would have to perform a task that would get them to their next clue. Tasks included kicking a soccer ball, batting a ball and running bases, skipping, throwing a frisbee and hopping along a path on one foot. Teams also had to use their brains when searching for orange in motion bracelets and putting together a word puzzle that formed in motion.

All participants received donated prizes from Winnipeg in motion, Curves Fitness, and Boston Pizza. MLA Kerri Irvin Ross supplied water bottles as thank you gifts to the eight nutrition students who volunteered their time and helped out at each leg of the race.

Not only did this Amazing Race promote the health benefits of physical activity; it was also a fun, team-building morale-booster that give participants the message that physical activity doesn’t have to occur in a gym.