UI Stride

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.

UI Stride 365

With UI Stride 365, participants can keep the momentum of the campaigns going year-round! This program allows participants to track activity, interact with colleagues via the wellness wall and peer-to-peer challenges, set and track individual wellness goals, access daily recipes and tips, and stay up-to-date with relevant wellness news and opportunities. Registration for UI Stride 365 is available any time.

Fall 2024 Walktober Campaign

Starting September 30, step out into the autumn air and support your helath and well-being with UI Stride Walktober. Throughout the 8-week program you'll log your activity, have access to daily recipe ideas, and encourage your colleages, all while collecting leaves on your virtual tree as you meet your daily goals.

Important dates:

September 16 - Registration opens
- Login to UI Stride 365 to opt-in to UI Stride Walktober
September 30 - Logging begins
October 7 - Registration closes
November 24 - Last day of Walktober

Household members over the age of 13 are eligible to join you in this campaign.

Participants will have the opportunity to win prizes based on weekly eligibility criteria:

Week 1 – Logged activity of any amount on at least one day of Week 1 - Megan Stoll
Week 2 – Downloaded the mobile app - Kathleen Townsley-Samuel
Week 3 – Has 1+ Friend - Tula Kuechenmeister
Week 4 - Completed Thrive Thursday for week 4 (must be on a team) - Lizzy Hatcher
Week 5 – Logged activity of any amount on at least one day of Week 5 - Courtney Pritchard
Week 6 – Has posted on the Wellness Wall - James Koeppe
Week 7 – Logged activity of any amount on at least one day of Week 7
Week 8 – Completed the program evaluation

Winners will be drawn using Wheel of Names.

Spring 2024 Coast to Coast Campaign

Starting April 1, this virtual shore-to-shore trip will take you from east to west, stopping at amazing attractions with postcard-perfect vintage and modern images, plus awesome descriptions. Each day you’ll visit a new attraction, earning points and road signs as you record physical activity.

Three hundred sixty-nine participants logged a total of 168,443,230 steps over the 8-week program!

Fall 2023 Health for the Holidays Campaign

Health for the Holidays offers a fun way to help relieve holiday stress and maintain balance so you can wrap up the year feeling more energetic and resilient. Throughout this lighthearted wellness campaign, you’ll “paint” engaging winter scenes from around the world and build sustainable healthy habits to help you feel your best through the season.

Three hundred eighty-four participants logged a total of 94,134,612 over the 6-week program!

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.

Four hundred ninety-two participants logged a total of 232,124,431 steps over the 8-week program!

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!