The Platte River Fitness Series was developed to encourage continued and on-going active living. Active living is an important key to a healthy community. The Series includes seven Lincoln County fitness events held in 2008. The events will provide consistent motivation, giving participants a goal to work toward throughout the year. Individuals will receive points for their participation in each event. Additional points are earned by placing in ones age-group in a particular event. Point totals will be tabulated throughout the year, and winners determined after the December, 2008 event. Special Platte River Fitness Series T-shirts will go to all participants who complete all seven events. Cash prizes will be awarded to the overall men’s and women’s point winners, and prizes will be awarded to the top three point winners in each gender and age category.

        Points are awarded and accumulated for all seven of our Series events as follows: 12 points for participating in each event; 10 points for winning one’s age group (in each division in events that have separate divisions), 8 points for second, 6 for third, then 5-4-3-2-1 for 4th through 8th. In addition, bonus points of 3, 2, and 1 will be added to the overall top three in each event by gender. If a participant places first in ones age-group in the fitness division, they must enter the competitive division in the next event having separate divisions. Age groups will be 19 & under, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, and 70 & over.

The Platte River Fitness Series Events and their 2008 dates are as follows:
NebraskaLand National Bank James O’Rourke Memorial Triathlon April 26-27
North Platte Recreation Department Predictor Challenge 5K  May 24
Nebraskaland Days Road Run 5K and 10K  June 21
Bill Summers Ford Camp Maranatha Adventure Triathlon  June 28
Great Plains Regional Medical Center Iron Horse Triathlon    August 2
Midlands Family Medicine Railfest Fall 5K  September 20
Jingle Bell 5K  December 6
       Information can be found on-line at www.orourketriathlon.org or www.npironhorsetri.com. Point totals will be posted after each event at the North Platte Rec Center. Please contact Trudy Merritt at 308-535-6772 or MerrittTD@ci.north-platte.ne.us for more information.