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Back to School Steps Challenge

Our aim is to get as many people in North Yorkshire moving, in the first weeks of the new school term

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• Key updates

  • What a week!

    1 year ago

  • The Mixie Monster joins fantastic 250-strong effort at Archbishop of York’s Junior School

    1 year ago

  • Two more top North Yorkshire landmarks clocked up

    2 years ago

  • Whitby Abbey reached

    2 years ago

  • The miles are mounting up

    2 years ago

  • Three more landmarks achieved

    2 years ago

What a week!

1 year ago

Four landmarks – well done everyone!

WOW what a week we have had so far ???????? we have managed to reach the following 4 landmarks Malton, Bolton Abbey, Fountains Abbey and Brimham Rocks cover a total of 217 miles #backtoschoolmiles #northyorkshireroute #MentalHealthMatters @misscharlesyork @theyorkmix pic.twitter.com/GD65vv114Y

— Selby High PE (@SelbyHighPE) September 23, 2021

The Mixie Monster joins fantastic 250-strong effort at Archbishop of York’s Junior School

1 year ago

The Mixie Monster and some intrepid children at Archbishop of York's Church of England Junior School. Photograph: Victoria Charles

What a great team effort!

The Mixie Monster and YorkMix Radio presenter Victoria Charles joined 250 youngsters and staff from Archbishop of York’s Church of England Junior School for a Back To School Steps Challenge special!

“Walking the school field, most of us managed at least five laps – can’t wait to get the the total!”

Two more top North Yorkshire landmarks clocked up

2 years ago

Photo: Mother Shipton's Cave Facebook

Our intrepid Back To School Steps Challengers have virtually visited two more of North Yorkshire’s most famous visitor attractions.

First, they reached Flamingo Land, home of many an exotic animal and thrilling ride, before heading back to the Shambles HQ in York.

Then, barely pausing for breath, they clocked up a visit to Mother Shipton’s Cave in Knaresborough.

Fantastic effort.

Whitby Abbey reached

2 years ago

Well done all – another landmark ticked off!

Participants in the Back To School miles challenge have reached the imposing ruins of Whitby Abbey.

Top work team!

Next North Yorkshire landmark ✅. We have reached Whitby Abbey and back on our back to school miles challenge ???????? #completed #community #MentalHealthMatters #backtoschoolmiles #???? @misscharlesyork @theyorkmix @Laura_Castle @BenTownCrier pic.twitter.com/ezKm04012a

— Selby High PE (@SelbyHighPE) September 16, 2021

The miles are mounting up

2 years ago

Photograph: Frank Busch / Unsplash

All these little virtual trips are adding up and the number of people joining in is growing all the time!

We will have current mile totals tomorrow and prizes announced on Friday.

The challenge runs till half term, I wonder how many time we will have circled the North Yorkshire bounty by then?

How to get involved… To join in you can manually send your miles as an individual or register your school – [email protected].

Here is the Strava Club link.

Then… Listen in to YorkMix Radio to keep up to date with the challenge, you can follow the live blog here.

Three more landmarks achieved

2 years ago

Whitby Abbey. Photograph: Juliet220 on Wikipedia

We’ve reached three more landmarks, from Shambles and back.

Well done to all the contributors so far.

????Challenge is officially starting????
Tune into @theyorkmix radio tomorrow for more information on routes and prizes.

Landmark 1 = York Minster & Selby Abbey = 28 miles

Landmark 2 = Roseberry Topping = 90 miles

Landmark 3 = Whitby Abbey = 94 miles #backtoschoolsteps #????

— Selby High PE (@SelbyHighPE) September 13, 2021

Great start by school number two

2 years ago

The wet weather meant out first school visit was postponed, but a big welcome to school number two – Archbishop of York’s CE Junior.

And on their first day of contribution they clocked up an impressive 64 miles. Well done!

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We’ve now added boat miles

2 years ago

The YorkMix Dragon Boat Race team

The YorkMix Radio team added miles to the total today – by river!

Our boat competed in the Dragon Boat Race on the River Ouse. Three heats and 16 people gave us a total of 7.5 miles for the day (it felt like more!)

Thank you to Mr Morton and Miss Strain, also to Olympian Scott Lincoln who joined us in the boat and will be sending his miles over too.

Welcome Carlton Primary

2 years ago

Exciting news, Carlton Primary school to the challenge and we will be visiting them with Mixie the Monster for a walk around the field to clock up some miles!

Breaking news! We now have 122 miles on the clock and have smashed our first target.

Join the challenge as we tour North Yorkshire and clock up the miles.

We have reached our first landmark Castle Howard. Strava is currently at 122 miles ????????. We have busted this beautiful landmark there and back twice ???????????????? #backtoschoolmiles #landmark1✅ #mentalhealthmatters pic.twitter.com/qr8o2e9GDI

— Selby High PE (@SelbyHighPE) September 8, 2021
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Off to Castle Howard!

2 years ago

Castle Howard. Photograph: YorkMix

Thank you to those who have already joined the group and got in touch with the studio… we are starting with a warm up walk from the YorkMix HQ on Shambles to Castle Howard and back – 30 miles in total which is around 60,000 steps.

Listen: Victoria talks to Jenna Strain from the PE department at Selby High about the challenge

‘Looking after our health has never been more important’

2 years ago

Mixie the Monster is joining in

It’s #steptember and we are teaming up with Selby High School to lead another fantastic Community challenge. This time virtually travelling the landmarks of North Yorkshire, we’ve got six weeks on this challenge, let’s see how far we can go.

Everyone is welcome to join in, so join us, we want you!

There will be weekly prizes & special mentions for individuals, families and schools. Tune in on a Monday morning to YorkMix Radio as the weekly winners will be announced.

YorkMix Radio will also be taking Mixie The Monster to some of the schools taking part for a walk around the field!

Fresh air and exercise definitely eases those #BackToSchool nerves & anxiety.

“Looking after our mental and physical health has never been more important, so having goals, being part of a team and getting active is important and the darker nights approach,” said YorkMix Radio’s Victoria Charles.

To Join in you can manually send your miles as an individual or register your school via [email protected].

Join the Strava challenge »

Join the Back to School Steps Challenge!

2 years ago

Photograph: Bruno Nascimento on Unsplash

Welcome to Back to School Steps.

Our aim is to get as many people in North Yorkshire moving, in the first weeks of the new school term.

So how does it work?

You join the club on our Strava page here. Then set the Strava fitness app on your phone to ‘run’ and it will automatically upload.

The aim is to cover 450 miles between us – the perimeter of North Yorkshire.

We will be stopping at landmarks where prizes can be won! We hope that this mini challenge will help ease anxiety for people heading back to school, and to address the importance of mental health and wellbeing.

We want everyone to be involved!

Strava page »

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