The Fitness Challenge began continued its second Warm-up Challenge series with a Halloween walk around Kennedy Park. Seventeen participants joined personal fitness instructor Amy Jones in walking around the park five times on the cool, crisp morning of October 30, 2010. The event was designed to help participants get in shape for the upcoming 4th Annual Fall river Fitness Challenge that begins on January 8th. Sponsored by the Diabetes Association, Inc. (DAI),  Community Development Recreation (CD-REC), the Fall River YMCA, General Fitness and Healthy City Fall River, the Warm-up signed up over 100 participants for the three-month series. Click here for the Schedule of Events. Click here for Amy's classes. Click here for photos of last year's first Warm-up Sign-in event. For more information, contact CD-REC Program Director Jamison Souza at 508-679-0922 or Healthy City Coordinator Dave Weed at 508-324-2411.

(Top row, left and center) Past Challenge winners Cliff Read, Daryl Parrent, and Nykie Marzilli join personal fitness instructor Amy Jones to lead the costumed group past Saint Anne's Church and around Kennedy Park. (Top row, right) Rick Lambert and John Novo watch with a smile as the group passes by. (Middle row, left) Lindsay Meupen, Sue Camara, Tracy Patton, and Chad Mellor round the corner at Middle Street. (Middle row, right) Donna Cumming leads the group down Middle Street. (Bottom row, left) Tracy, Chad, Nykie (led by her boxer, Cooper) and a friend walk up Bradford Avenue. (Bottom row, center) Cliff and Daryl pass by the farmers' market vendors (Bottom row, right) Fallon Perry and Alanna Lavasseur, both eight, join the group in their Halloween costumes.