Find out how MNers are getting on with the Disney 24 Hour Challenge

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This is the feedback thread for the MNers who have both completed and are still working on finishing the Disney 24 Hour Challenge. Disney are looking for as many families as possible to sign up to take part in their new 24 Hour Challenge as part of Disney’s Healthy living commitment. The challenge is to clock up a total of 24 hours worth of activity with your team between June and September.

If after reading the feedback this sounds like something your family would be interested in, the challenge is still ongoing so please sign up here, create your team page and please select ‘Mumsnet’ when asked where you heard about the challenge.

Here’s what Disney have to say: “This summer Disney invites you to take part in the 24 Hour Challenge, a FREE, virtual challenge inspired by Incredibles 2, that you can do anywhere, at any time. Every week teams will have a chance to win Incredible prizes, including 10 weekly prize bundles worth £200 each and, if you complete all 24 hours, a holiday to Disneyland Paris to experience and take part in the Magic Run weekend, from 21st – 23rd September.

Families can clock up time doing activities they already enjoy (like walking, swimming, playing in the park), use our “missions” (inspired by the characters from the Disney/Pixar film Incredibles 2) as ideas to get started, or try something new!”

Testers please answer the following questions:

• How have you found the challenge so far?
• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?
• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?
• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?
• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge
• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Everyone who leaves feedback on the 24 Hour Challenge will be in with the chance of winning one of the following prizes:

• Family ticket to the West End musical Aladdin + £200 for travel and accommodation**
• Family ticket to Disney on Ice + £200 for travel and accommodation*
• £100 voucher of their choice (from a list)

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

Standard Insight T&Cs Apply

N.B. Family tickets cater for 4 people only.
** Here are the T&Cs for the Aladdin show:
- Tickets valid until 30/09/18 subject to availability
- Aladdin is recommended for ages 6+, children under 3 cannot be admitted to the auditorium.
- £200 is to contribute towards any expenses, including travel and accommodation
* Disney on Ice is national and the winner will get tickets to the location that is closest to them.

• How have you found the challenge so far?

Full disclosure. We started well (we swim every Monday so that's one hour clocked in every week for a start), we've had a few walks too but I've not been very well the last few weeks as I had a relapse (medical) which lead to me falling and whacking my head. A bit of concussion but otherwise ok. So the challenge fine, everything around it not so.

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

We've clocked up more than I've submitted on the team page- we're always busy and with being ill too I really need reminders to nudge me into signing in.

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

We've been swimming and walking, trampolining etc.

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

Erm no, sorry, I must have missed them.

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge?

I think it's a great idea, could do with some more prompts to encourage you to actively take part. We spend all our weekend in the garden doing stuff so this has just made sure we've been active doing it.

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

It's a good cause, it's good for you and i'm sure your circumstances are a bit better than mine so you'll probably clock up the hours in no time.

How have you found the challenge so far?
We have enjoyed looking into this challenge and planning what we’re going to do to build more exercise Into the summer holidays.

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team? 4 hours so far but we aim to complete challenge in the holidays when we are all together.
• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together? We’ve been swimming and walking so far.
• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ? Not yet but again we plan to.
• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge Doing more exercise together as a family for a purpose. We’ve talked more and spent less time on mobiles which had been great.
• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Go for it!! Little amounts of exercise add up and make you feel fitter and healthier. It’s a good excuse to do something together as a family.

How have you found the challenge so far?
Not bad, just finding time as a family to do it

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

Only 2hrs atm because of other commitments

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

Walked, swam, danced

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

No, we haven't explored it much

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

Being together, it will be great in school holidays

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Make time to do it, it's a lot of fun together and gets you moving as well

All my kids young and old love the incredibles and very excited about the release of the new movie. So with that and this lovely weather I thought we would give the challenge a go.

How many hours have you clocked up as a team? About 10 hours,

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together? We’ve done our normal walks , dog walks , cycles but also using the challenge for ideas, had a laugh.
• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ? Been going through missions and doing the ones we fancy, but missing some that are a bit young for us.
• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge doing things together and having a laugh as we all give some of the missions a go.
• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge? We have used it to do things together and get more active not used it for fund raising side though. It’s harmless fun with a great theme.

• How have you found the challenge so far?

Surprisingly fun and easy to do.

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

7 and a half hours.

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

Not yet.

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

Spending time together as a family

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Just have a go, you may surprise yourself with your new activity levels.

• How have you found the challenge so far?

We've been quite hit and miss with it. It's been too hot!!

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

Only logged a couple bit we have made an effort to do more as a family. So we've done about 10 hours but keep forgetting to go to the website.

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

We are walking the neighbors dog, playing tennis and taking DD for bike rides.

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

No.

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

We are doing a bit more as a family

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Do it, just try this remember to log your times!!

How have you found the challenge so far?

• signed up and looked at it once but haven’t done any activities.

How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

• None, tons individually but there’s no activity we do as a family. I didnt realise you had to take part as a family when I signed up.

How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

• None.

Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

• No.

What has been your favourite thing about the challenge
-Nothing personally but I can see the idea behind it. Doesn’t work though when the adults work different hours.

What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?
-I don’t think I have any as I didn’t complete it myself.

How have you found the challenge so far?
It has been a lot of fun, but I keep forgetting to log on and record the time that we have done. Also, I shouldn’t have included my husband as he works long hours so we haven’t done much together.

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

Only a couple but I haven’t had a chance to officially log it

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

We have done walls to and from school and after school activities, walks on the beach, walks in our local woods. Swimming.

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

No, but they might be useful once the school holidays start and we have more time.

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

Spending quality time with my family and encouraging them coz we are doing it for Disney!!!

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Plan out exactly who to include in the challenge. Have fun and do things u know you will all enjoy

• How have you found the challenge so far? Good at first but with no prompting to complete we have fell behind in logging activities
• How many hours have you clocked up as a team? 18
• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together? Walking, silly walking (being an aeroplane, superhero, dinosaur), swimming, pebble finding, swing ball, trampolining, football, obstacle courses
• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ? Making up our own and fitting into our usual activities
• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

To think you are working towards something, made us realise we are quite active on some days

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge? Remember to log in!

How have you found the challenge so far? It's been ok, trying to do things together with my do and the children is difficult due to work.

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team? Only about 8 though I am sure we have done more and I have not clicked them.
• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together? Walking, swimming, running and playing in the park.
• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ? No, we have used our own ideas
• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge? We are fans of the Incredibles and thinking of things to do as a family
• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge? Have a go and try and get active together

• How have you found the challenge so far?

To be honest the biggest challenge is remembering to clock hours...

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

Not sure, I need to sit and work it out. Probably a few hours.

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

Mostly it's been cycling (to get to places) and swimming

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

No

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

Gets us doing things together

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Er, give it a go?

1. It isn't practical for us for the whole family to do it together, I have 9, 6 and 2 year olds, the 2 year old can't do the same as the older ones and that also then limits both parents being involved
2. Very little due to the limits above
3. I had hoped to use park run, but the older two do junior park run without us running and the little one can't do it. My eldest does the 5km parkrun with his Dad but again it is not all of us. We are very active as a family but not in ways we can log for this!
4. No, they weren't suitable for us
5. I like the idea, but the reality doesn't work
6. It would be lovely for a family with similar aged children, but harder if you have age gaps

How have you found the challenge so far? We haven't started it! We've had other plans that last couple of weekends and I was hoping we could do this during the summer holidays.

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team? Zero

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together? We plan to swim, walk and bike together.

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ? No, but I think we will.

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge? It's encouraged us to plan activities.

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge? Pick a time when your not too busy!

• How have you found the challenge so far?

It's been quite fun, but keep forgetting about it so probably have doubled the hours at this point!

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

21 hours so far, but keep forgetting to log in to the site.

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

Swimming, walking, having a kick about in the garden

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

No haven't tried the missions

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

Encouraging everyone to be outdoors and on the move.

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Give it a go, it's easier to build up hours than you think.

1. Great, though the hard part about it has been doing the activity with all team members present, as we mostly work opposite shifts at the min

1. Only 6 - due to the above.

1. Mainly usual daily activities like walking the dog, but have made a special effort to do extra like take the frisbee with us for some extra running around.

1. No.

1. That it made me think about how we spend time when we are all together.

1. Give it a go, it is good to think about what you do as a family, and even if you can't do much as a family (like us due to working opposite shifts) it still made me think how I could improve the activity time of me and the children

Sorry for the late response, end of school and an ill DC have left things hectic here

- How have you found the challenge so far?
- How many hours have you clocked up as a team?
- How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?
- Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ? No
- What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

Unfortunately I misunderstood the challenge and mis-sold it to DC, I thought it was something we could work on over the summer but the aim is something we naturally achieve in a normal week anyway. I thought it would encourage us all to be more active over the summer and this is how I had described it to DC. We were all disappointed when we looked in to it together, and older DC asked why it was set so low (leading on to a discussion about different people having different activity levels, going to different clubs, having different hobbies, living too far to walk to school etc) so we kind of abandonned it at that point so I think this answers the above questions

- What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?
Look in to it properly before bringing the idea up with DC, and think about whether it's achievable and if it will be too easy or hard as this will leave DC unmotivated

• How have you found the challenge so far?

Good but the weather has been hot. Even still I can't believe we clocked as many hours as we did

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

We have clocked 26 hours so far

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

We have done running, walking and things like hide and seek, chase and hopscotch. We have been to the park and on walks through the woods.

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

We had a look but decided to do our own thing

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

Spending time together as a family doing exercise and keeping healthy

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Do it! There's nothing to loose! You probably do more than you realise anyway

@EllieMumsnet The email we received after completing the Challenge had a clicky button that wasn't clicky, so we can't download our certificate. 😭

Lindy wrong thread.

How have you found the challenge so far?
Really fun but we’re limited to not a huge amount of time altogether through the holidays.

• How many hours have you clocked up as a team?

10H 20M

• How are you taking part?/What activities have you done together?

*We spent a few days finding the charity penguins around Dundee/Brechin/Forfar/St Andrews *The family have walked me to work a few times then gone for ice cream without me 😢 We shopped for new clothes and some uniform/school bits *The kids have scooted while we’ve walked *We’ve been strawberry picking

• Have you been using the missions or training plans in Mission HQ?

Not yet but we plan to, will have a look through

• What has been your favourite thing about the challenge

Spending time together and the nice weather is helping!

• What advice would you give to other families who are thinking about completing the challenge?

Give it a go, it’s very motivating.

I didn't end up doing the challenge, as seemed a bit faffy with the sponsorship.

Thanks Disney for our Incredibles 2 product bundle! We love it! 😆

@PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks Wow!!! Did you win the goodies for completing the mission? Well done

No, they select 1 team per week. You don't have to have completed. DS2 and I are covered in stickers! We got loads of other typically Disney merchandise quality stuff too. 😆 DS2 had supper on his plate and has been drinking out of his cup all day, I'll use my mug for my coffee in the morning. 😆