Inaugural Walking Challenge Overview

Thanks for participating in the October Walking Challenge v.2015!! Here's a bit of an overview of what's been going on so far: Twenty-six teams of three have signed up for the challenge. Participants track walking (or elliptical!) steps Monday-Friday and record them on a SharePoint site. The steps can be counted all day, not just at work. Groups do not have to walk together, but I do encourage groups to try to get outside together during the day and enjoy the fall weather.


Up until this morning (Day THREE), I wasn't sure about what to do with the logged steps. Should I just keep track of the totals myself, or find some way to share them with everyone? If I DID share the steps, how could I attach some sort of meaning to the data? For instance on the first day of the challenge, participants logged nearly 400,000 steps (not all participants have logged in yet, though. a-hem....).
What does that MEAN, exactly? How FAR IS THAT??? Taking a middle of the road number of 1 mile = 2345 steps, that makes about 170 miles! But Gene, how far is THAT? It is pretty close to walking from this facility to the West Haven, CT facility.


BOOM!


Then I thought, "wow. we have 20 days to walk. we can't just go back and forth to Connecticut. we'll all go crazy!" So I began to seek other distances; cross country? across Sahara? Gobi? All good ideas, but not what I settled on.


Come back again to see where we're starting and where we're headed, and get a glimpse at things we'll see along the way.


Be Well, gene