FitFamily takes to the skies Published Feb. 11, 2010 By John Stuart Tinker Public Affairs TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Kavina Agnew knows just what she wants for her 10-year wedding anniversary. And no, it's not diamonds, furniture or a car, or even a night out at the movies with her husband, a civilian employee at Tinker. To hear her say it, it's much simpler than all that. "I tell my husband he owes me a half marathon for our 10-year anniversary," Agnew says. "And we've only been married seven years. See? I gave him a while to train." It's rather generous you might say, when you consider that Agnew's husband is, by her reckoning, "not a runner." So he has a few years to train. And she would know about training. An athlete by upbringing, Agnew branched into distance running more pointedly several years ago. Run she did. And how. Currently she has six marathons under her soles and maintains a healthy running schedule that would be the envy (and pain) of many a sportswoman. Agnew stands in the Tinker Youth Center, pen and paper in hand, with her 6-year-old Braden darting about the scene. It's Feb. 5, and the day she will enroll her family in the Air Force's new FitFamily program. Aimed at promoting healthy family activities, the program has a number of suggestions for families looking to get out and about. Family members then log activities on the Web site and, as their heart rates increase, so do their incentive points. The official launch for the base program was last Friday at the Tinker Youth Center, where -- amid a host of nutritious snacks and information about healthy living -- a number of Tinker families penned their names to parchment to enroll in the program. Those who missed the signup last week can do so by logging on at http://www.USAFFitFamily.com and clicking on "Register My Family." The system will send a password to each family member's e-mail. Agnew hopes to bring her family together in the coming months with more activities and shared aerobic ventures. "We're doing this for a healthy lifestyle," Agnew said. "To teach the little ones that this is what we do. I want to teach Braden to be a runner." Fit Family, a companion program to the youth program is a goal incentive initiative that encourages families to "get up, get out and get fit -- together." Agnew agrees with this premise of the Fit Family program and hopes to instill in her son the desire and discipline for an active lifestyle that will last into his adult years. "The main thing is to teach them at this age that even if you don't want to work out you need to," Agnew explained. "Just like some days you don't want to go to work, but you do anyway. Some days you don't want to work out, but you do it because you need to." The FitFamily Web site also provides resources for families such as ideas for activities and how to make nutritious food choices to further promote healthy lifestyles. For more information contact Mindy Whittington at the Tinker Youth Center at 734-7866 or Chris Gaines at the Gerrity Fitness and Sports Center at 734-5607.