Smáralundur high jumper of Hafnarfjörður

1st place in the indoor Life Course competition and 10th place nationally

Around 200 employees at nine workplaces in the City of Hafnarfjörður took an active part in the Lífshlaupið 2023 workplace competition, logging a combined 1,917 days of exercise. In the workplace competition, there are seven categories based on the number of employees at a site, and the competition runs for 3 weeks, from 1st to 21st February. Smáralundur Nursery is the top performer for the City of Hafnarfjörður, taking 1st place in the municipal indoor competition and 10th place nationally in its category, with 951 TP3T staff participation and the most days of activity per employee.

Well done, Smáralundur!

The Lifshlaupið has become a workplace culture in many of the places that excel year after year, and workplaces are keen to create their own in-house traditions around the Lifshlaupið. The health-promoting Smáralundur nursery is no exception, and its staff are known for their renowned competitive spirit and ambition, which is well reflected in the school's daily activities. Staff turnover at the nursery is low, staff satisfaction is high, and it is clear that life inside the nursery fence is considered healthy and rather pleasant. In mid-2022, the City of Hafnarfjörður announced its active participation in the 'Health-Promoting Workplace' project by the Office of the National Public Health Inspector, and health promotion is now part of the city's overall strategy. The aim is, among other things, improved health, increased well-being and job satisfaction, increased productivity, fewer absences and sick days, and increased creativity and innovation, to name but a few. Increased encouragement for staff participation within the City of Hafnarfjörður's workplaces in the Life Course is one of the many steps in the municipality's health-promoting journey. Hafnarfjörður has been a health-promoting community since 2015. Mayor Rósa Guðbjartsdóttir presented the staff at Smáralund with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a gift voucher, offering her heartfelt congratulations on behalf of the City of Hafnarfjörður.

The Lifelapse is an annual health and motivational project.

The Life Run is a health and motivational project by the Icelandic Sports and Olympic Association (ÍSÍ) where people of all ages are encouraged to consider their daily exercise and increase it as much as possible in their leisure time, at work, at school and when choosing their mode of transport.  In the 2023 Life Run, 16,745 people took part in 1,495 teams, moving for 15,623,748 minutes over 202,264 days. Representatives from the most successful workplaces and schools received awards in the Þróttur hall in Laugardal last week.

All results and photos from the Life Run 2023 can be found on the project's website.