Welcome to UI Stride!
Ready to get moving toward better health and well-being?
UI Stride is designed for University of Illinois System Office departments and units to help employees get active and healthy. This self-paced campaign is a fun, easy way to focus on individual well-being and have friendly competition with other teams. This challenge also helps departments and units to bond and enables employees to meet one another and create an inclusive and active community.
Spring 2023 Spring Into Motion Campaign
Spring Into Motion is a fun and inspiring way to move more. Whether you hike a mountain or jog around the block, you choose the activity — do the same thing each day or try something different — as you discover something new about spring each week.
Logging exercise is simple with Spring Into Motion. If you’re using a tracking device or app, just sync it with your computer and your steps automatically load into your Spring Into Motion account. Or record your favorite activity, along with dedicated exercise minutes, and the program automatically converts your minutes to steps. Delicious recipes, inspiring articles, and motivating daily emails help you keep moving.
Important dates:
- Registration open: Monday, March 20
- Logging begins: Monday, April 3
- Last day to register: Friday, April 7
- Program ends: Sunday, May 28
- Last day to log activity: Tuesday, May 30
Participants will be eligible for a weekly drawing to win wellness prizes! The weekly criteria are as follows:
- Week 1 – Logged activity of any amount on at least one day of Week 1 - Andrea Lasticly
- Week 2 – Downloaded the mobile app - Nick Schmidt
- Week 3 – Has 1+ Friend - Chad Marshall
- Week 4 - Completed Thrive Thursday for week 4 (must be on a team) - Liz Strate
- Week 5 – Logged activity of any amount on at least one day of Week 5 - Brent Rasmus
- Week 6 – Has posted on The Buzz community discussion wall - McKenzie White
- Week 7 - Completed Thrive Thursday for week 7 (must be on a team) - Jon Carey
- Week 8 – Completed the program evaluation
Winners will be drawn using a random name chooser each Monday for the week prior. Participants may win one prize through the duration of the campaign.
Login to UI Stride Spring Into Motion
Fall 2022 Walktober Campaign
You’ll experience some of the world’s most spectacular landscapes, fun festivals and events, and amazing autumn favorites as you make physical activity part of your daily routine.
329 participants logged 111,588,806 steps over the six week program!
Spring 2022 Know Your System Campaign
UI Stride Know Your System will take you on a tour of notable University of Illinois System locations and programs while you log your physical activity and complete two additional daily wellness activities - a mindful eating meal and a learning experience each day.
Three hundred sixty-eight participants logged 140,381,500 steps over the 8 week program!
Fall 2021 Renew Campaign
Resilience improves with building habits across different aspects of well-being — physical, mental, social, and emotional. Discovering practices that work for you and making them a consistent part of your routine will help you thrive… while equipping you to bounce back from life’s challenges and setbacks.
UI Stride Renew participants completed activities designed to refresh the mind and body, clarify purpose, and strengthen relationships.
Spring 2021 Well Traveled Challenge
As temperatures get warmer and days grow longer, UI Stride Well Traveled will take you on a tour of the United States while you log your physical activity and complete two additional daily wellness activities - a two-minute timeout twice per day and a dollar stretching activity.
Three hundred seventy-five participants logged 246,961,784 steps over the 12 week program!
Fall 2020 Walktober Campaign
You’ll experience some of the world’s most spectacular landscapes, fun festivals and events, and amazing autumn favorites as you make physical activity part of your daily routine.
Four hundred eighteen participants logged 191,293,116 steps over the 8 week Walktober challenge.
About the inaugural 2019 UI Stride...
In this six-week challenge, your UI Stride goal was to achieve 859,500 steps as a team by recording your steps and activity levels. The goal of 859,500 steps came from the approximate amount of steps it would take to walk directly from the University of Illinois Chicago to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to the University of Illinois Springfield and back to the University of Illinois Chicago!