A dozen Fall River Fitness Challenge participants followed 2008 & 2010 Challenge winners Daryl Parrent and Cliff Read on a 2.5 mile walking course from Community Development Recreation (CD-REC) headquarters on Bank Street to the bottom of Kennedy Park and back. This seventh Challenge event was designed to help participants work on their fitness goals during the final month of the four-month event. The Challenge will conclude during the first week in May with a final weigh-in. Prizes will be awarded to those individuals and team who lose the most weight. Participants who have been involved with the past three Challenge years will also be acknowledged. Sponsored by the Diabetes Association, Inc. (DAI), CD-REC, the Fall River YMCA, General Fitness and Healthy City Fall River, and supported by grants from the United Way of Greater Fall River and Partners for a Healthier Community, the Challenge offers low cost opportunities for those who live, work or attend school in Fall River to get fit. Click here for the video of the event. Click here for photos of the first Challenge event, here for the second, and here for the third, here for the fourth, here for the fifth, and here for the sixth. For more go to FallRiverFitnessChallenge.com  or call 508-679-0922.

(Top row, left) Personal Trainer Amy Jones suggests to Terry Greenwood, Kathy Syde and Rick Cormier that they try some jogging along the walk as they are in better shape at this point in the Challenge. (Top row, center and right)  2008 winner Daryl Parrent and 2010 Challenge winner Cliff Read lead the group from the Bank Street Armory to South Main Street. (Middle row) The group heads past Government Center to Kennedy Park. (Bottom row) Cliff and Daryll wait for walkers at the bottom of Kennedy Park as Chrissy Lewis, Judee and Rick Cormier complete the event with a run to the Armory.