Move through the Darkness Challenge

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Date 01 Dec – 31 Jan, 2027
Races 8 distances
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Move through the Darkness Challenge

About the event

When: December 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027

What: Virtual Challenge to complete a set number of miles through walking or running, or a set number of hours of exercise (biking, yoga, etc)

Why: Move Through the Darkness is a collaboration between Imagine Zero of Weld County and Windsor Gives to provide you with an opportunity to focus on your mental, emotional, and physical health. Losing daylight, self-care time and healthy habits can lead to a feeling of hopelessness, depression, sleeping too much, low energy and ultimately an increase in suicide rates nationwide.

How: This challenge is completely free and open to anyone world-wide. Sign up and complete the challenge as individual and/or team. For teams, the distance or time you choose is the collective amount of miles or time broken up as you choose. If you sign up to run/walk, all of your miles must be completed by running and/or walking. If you sign up for Hours of Activity, you can complete your hours with any combination of activities.

Distances: 100 Mile, 250 Mile, or 400 Mile Challenges - done individually or as a group of 2-6. 400+ miles for teams over 6!

Hours of Activity: You can complete 25, 45, or 65 hours of activities outside of your normal daily routine. For groups of 2-6, the hours are 150, 270 or 390 total. 390+ hours for groups over 6. For example yoga, pickle ball, bike riding, exercise classes, are just a few examples. Once you complete your activity, log the time that activity took and in the comments what the activity was.

Donate and/or fundraise as individual or team for your 2025/26 MTD challenge. All donations/fundraising efforts from the MTD Challenge go to the finisher beanies or shirts, and additional amounts go to Imagine Zero of Weld County to provide suicide education, awareness and to reduce the stigma surrounding suicide, and to Windsor Gives, a 501(c)3, to produce the finisher beanies. 

 

Races offered

01Dec

Physical Activity - 25 Individual Hours or 150 Team Hours

Running

Distance
Physical Activity - 25 Individual Hours or 150 Team Hours
Start time
00:01
Entry fee
$0.00
01Dec

Physical Activity - 45 Individual Hours or 270 Team Hours

Running

Distance
Physical Activity - 45 Individual Hours or 270 Team Hours
Start time
00:01
Entry fee
$0.00
01Dec

Physical Activity - 65 Individual Hours or 390 Team Hours

Running

Distance
Physical Activity - 65 Individual Hours or 390 Team Hours
Start time
00:01
Entry fee
$0.00
01Dec

Physical Activity - 66+ Individual Hours or 391+ Team Hours

Running

Distance
Physical Activity - 66+ Individual Hours or 391+ Team Hours
Start time
00:01
Entry fee
$0.00
01Dec

Running or Walking - 100 Miles Solo or Team

Running

Distance
160.9K
Start time
00:01
Entry fee
$0.00
01Dec

Running or Walking - 250 Mile Solo or Team

Running

Distance
321.9K
Start time
00:01
Entry fee
$0.00
01Dec

Running or Walking - 400 Miles Solo or Team

Running

Distance
643.7K
Start time
00:01
Entry fee
$0.00
01Dec

Running or Walking - Over 400 Miles Solo or Team

Running

Distance
643.7K
Start time
00:01
Entry fee
$0.00

About

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Colorado is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is part of the Southwestern United States, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas to the east, and Oklahoma to the southeast. Colorado is noted for its landscape of mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers, and desert lands. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is the eighth-largest U.S. state by area and the 20th by population. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population of Colorado to be 5,957,493 as of July 1, 2024, a 3.2% increase from the 2020 United States census.

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Race results

Official finishing times from previous editions of Move through the Darkness Challenge — 2023.

Place Name Gender Age City Time
🥇 Konrad Korth M 34 Fort Collins, CO —
🥈 Sarah Robertson F 37 Windsor, CO —
🥉 Nicholas Mullen M 38 Windsor, CO —
4 Alice Isom F 45 Windsor, CO —
5 Katie Kiliszewski F 37 Towson, MD —

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