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Take a bicycle ride in the arboretum, take your daughters and sons to work, or take a look at all those roses (eight acres in all)! Or do all three!

And here’s something else you can take: the annual �������� Mind Body Wellness Challenge, for students, faculty, staff and retirees.

— Come prepared with your bike and water bottle; the pace will be leisurely to allow for exploration and questions. Saturday (April 19), 
2-3 p.m., meet at the . Free.

— It’s happening Thursday, April 24. Some activities require advance registration (online), and your window for doing so is limited: 10 a.m. this Friday (April 18) to 5 p.m. Monday (April 21). “Plant a Seed, Grow a Future” is this year’s theme. Activities listed so far include:

• Guided tours — vegetable field crops and greenhouse, Dairy Barn, Botanical Conservatory, Bohart Museum of Entomology, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, Activities and Recreation Center, Police and Fire departments, and the Unitrans maintenance facility
• Self-guided tours — Design Museum, C.N. Gorman Museum and Nelson Gallery; Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven; Campus Tree Walk; and California Raptor Center
• Science demonstrations — Chemistry Magic Show, Phabulous Physics and Amazing Atmosphere

— The weekend event is Saturday-Sunday, May 3-4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. both days, at , 455 Hopkins Road, Davis.

Rose sale , rose field tours and question-and-answer booth both days. Speakers and rose tissue culture information booth Saturday only.

The speakers: Peter Boyd, rosarian, 10-11 a.m. Saturday; and Christian Bedard, rose breeder, 11 a.m-noon Saturday.

Presented by the . Free admission; no preregistration. Free miniature rose plant per guest, while supplies last.

Can’t make the sale? , for pickup on Saturday, April 26.

— Sponsored by Human Resources’ , the challenge encourages each participant to adopt a healthy, new habit and maintain it for seven weeks, after which the new habit can be a lifelong change.

The organizers have arranged a to help you keep your new habit, and will send weekly emails with links and resources to keep you motivated and on track.

Activities include a talk on the benefits of exercise, a brown bag on hiking and other outdoor adventures, and another brown bag on Latin dance.

Other activities include weekly group walks — the first one is Wednesday (April 16) on Wilson Track (at Toomey Field)., from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m., during which time you’re invited to walk at your own pace.

The last walk — and the culmination of the Mind and Body Welness Challenge — will be May 21, when �������� joins the rest of the system in UC Walks.

for the Mind Body Wellness Challenge, and print out a punch card to keep track your participation in various activities — gather a certain number of punches, and receive an incentive prize (for example, an all-in-one measuring spoon, or a cooling scarf, or a pair of Wellness Wheel bamboo socks).

For each activity, participants also receive 2,500 points for the program (which in 2014 is offering a $75 VISA Rewards gift card to each employee and retiree who earns 7,500 points during the year).