The Nova Scotia Heartland Tour is going virtual for the second year in a row.
Yarmouth community leader for the tour, Jack Harding, says the pandemic is not slowing the annual fitness campaign down.
“Even though its a difficult time, people can still be healthy and active with their families,” says Harding. “This is a fun way to keep track of what you do and kind of possibly help out your community with the big prize toward trail development.”
A $2,500 prize for trail development will be given to the winner of the Most Active County Award.
Harding says right now this years competition is a three way race.
“Right now Yarmouth is in the first place position kind of tied with Annapolis, it’s very close, and Pictou,” says Harding. That is a huge prize and a benefit to help people stay active.”
There are five physical activity challenges for participants
There’s the Get Up and Move Challenge for people who aren’t active that want to make a change, and the 150 Challenge which is 150 minutes a week of moderate to vigorous physical activity.
There’s also the Bluenose 100 Challenge which has you spend 100 minutes or more of physical activity a day for one week and the Youth 60 A Day Challenge, challenging young people to spend 60 minutes a day physically active.
Lastly, the T2T Virtual “Ride” Challenge has participants bike 800 km in their community which is the equivalent of biking from Yarmouth to Sydney, tip to tip.
People can register on the Heartland Tour website.
