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Journal staff 6:00 a.m. ET May 10, 2017

Health Quest's outdoor fitness expo will feature workouts and information booth along the river and on the Walkway Saturday, May 13.(Photo: Health Quest/Courtesy photo)

If you need a little motivation to get in shape, a six-week fitness challenge kicks off Saturday at the Hudson River.

Health Quest's Get Fit Hudson Valley returns to thebanks of the Hudson River Saturday, May 13, where you can take a fitness class or borrow a bike for a ride on the Walkway Over the Hudson, The kickoff event will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Upper Landing Park, 83 N. Water St., Poughkeepsie.

The six-week fitness challenge awards community members for being active with the chance to win prizes. Participants are invited to enter their workouts at GetFitHV.com. The free website offers fitness tips, healthfulrecipes and a fitness contest. Each entry at one of more than 80 check-in Get Fit workout locations counts toward raffles for prizes, such as an Apple Watch, according to a written release.

The Get Fit challenge gives people of all fitness levels an extra incentive to get their exercise in each week and discover new ways to make the valley their gym,M. Zubair Jafar, a physician who leads the sports cardiology program for The Heart Center, a division of Hudson Valley Cardiovascular Practice, PC, said in the release.

The kickoff event willfeature a Get Fit activation table with complimentary The Hudson Valley is my gym T-shirts and water bottles for the first 50 participants to sign up for the challenge. All fitness levels are welcome.

The schedule for Saturday's instructional fitness classes isas follows:

Other activities will include:

This event is free. Upper Landing Park is at the bottom of the Walkway elevator. For information about parking, visit upperlanding.org/parking

Visit http://www.getfithv.com for more information.

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