Flights Ascending & More Rules and Information

SNR Wellness Activity for the February 2026 will see the return of the 'Flights Ascending & More' Challenge. How active can you be during the month of February?

The fitness challenge sponsored by the SNR Wellness Team and the SNR Social Committee for February 2026 will be “Flights Ascending & More.” To be more inclusive, we are broadening our activity to track active minutes of a workout. This can still be climbing stairs, but now it can include walking routes in Hardin Hall or East Campus or office exercises or other activities. We are also partnering with UNL’s HealthierU team that has purchased a subscription to the app “Stridekick.” This app can be partnered with your wearable device and automatically add your activity to our SNR challenge. Manual entries can all be made for those without wearable devices on the app. And if you are even phobic about apps, we will have the spreadsheet entry workflow. (The only downside to all these options is that the leaderboard may not be exactly up to date in real time.)

Like last year, we will have weekly challenges and overall challenge winners. Each week participants will need to complete TBD minutes by Saturday each week to be considered for the drawing. (Manually entered activities must be entered each Saturday at midnight to be considered in the weekly drawing requirement. Late entries will not be accounted for in the weekly total.) An overall challenge first, second and third place winner will be determined by total minutes for the month of February. Participation is open to all faculty, staff and graduate students in SNR. Undergraduates may participate, but at this time are not eligible to be included in the prize drawings or overall awards.

If you are interested in participating, please fill out the registration form. You can join at any time through the end of February. The initial kickoff email will be sent after January 26, 2026.

If you already have the "Stridekick" app, you can join the SNR challenge with the private challenge code.

HealthierU has a great FAQ page for Stridekick at here.

If you have questions about the event, contact Mark Mesarch at mmesarch1@unl.edu

February Leader Board

As of 2/7/2026

This is a compilation of people participating in the StrideKick app and spreadsheet

Weekly Awards

• Randomly selected participant who has completed at least 150 active minutes between February 1 and 7, 2025 - $25 gift card
  Winner: Keeley MacNeill
• Randomly selected participant who has completed at least 150 active minutes between February 8 and 14, 2025 - $25 gift card
• Randomly selected participant who has completed at least 175 active minutes between February 15 and 21, 2025 - $25 gift card
• Randomly selected participant who has completed at least 175 active minutes between February 22 and 28, 2025 - $25 gift card

Final Awards

At the end of the challenge (midnight February 28, 2026)

• Most flight over total event - $50 gift card
• Second most flights over the total event - $30 gift card
• Third most flights over the total event - $20 gift card

Flights can be entered for previous days, but weekly awards will be based on flights entered by midnight of each of the weekly period (2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28).