Hill Health Center
Employee Walking Challenge
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Hill Health Center Employee Walking Challenge |
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| Information about the program | Useful Calculators |
| Walking Points of Interest |
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| Team Rosters (this is subject to change and may not reflect current participants) | |
| Forms that teams will need | |
| Who's winning so far? Click here for the official results. | |
| Some ideas and tips for using your pedometer. | |
| A Few Interesting Facts | |
| Interesting walking links | |
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Information about the "Employee Walking Challenge"
This program will begin on Monday,
January 12th, 2004. This team walking event is for Hill Health
Center Employees who
are ready to increase their physical activity.
Walkers have less incidence of cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes
and other killer diseases, live longer, and get mental health and spiritual
benefits. The Department of Health Promotion is very interested in getting
people to walk because of these health benefits. Teams of employees will measure the number of steps they
take each day using a electronic device called a pedometer. Each employee
will record their daily steps (both at home and at work) on a weekly walking
form (the form is available below) and report them to their team leader on a weekly basis. Teams
will compete with each other to see who walks the most. The first team to
walk 1860 miles (the distance from the New Haven, Connecticut to Key West,
Florida) will win!!! If each team members is walking regularly,
it should take teams only about 5 months to travel this distance. The team
that wins will receive a special prize that will be announced at a later date.
That's all there is to it.
 Summary
of Walking GoalThe red line on the map to the left indicates your Teams walking goal. The first Team to walk the distance from New Haven, Connecticut to Key West, Florida will win the Walking Challenge. Every week this map will be updated to show each Teams progress on the map. Each Team will have a different color arrow representing their Team. Have fun!!! |
If one were to walk along the East
Coast Greenway from New Haven heading south, one would reach:
Manhattan after 83 miles
Trenton after 153 miles
Philadelphia after 180 miles
Wilmington, DE after 215 miles
Baltimore after 293 miles
Washington DC after 393 miles
Richmond, VA after 504 miles
Durham, NC after 662 miles
Charleston, SC after 1038 miles
Savannah, GA after 1150 miles
Jacksonville after 1300 miles
Miami Beach after 1700 miles
Key West after 1860 miles
Daily Step Tracking Form - This is the form that is used by all team members to record the number of steps taken each day. Each team member must give this form to their team leader on a weekly basis.
Weekly Team Reporting Form - This form will only be used by team leaders for reporting the total number of steps taken by each team member. This form must be completed and given to Diane by Wednesday of the following week.
Results Though Week 9 (January 18, 2004 through March 14, 2004)
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The charts will be updated on Thursday of each week, so total weekly steps should be turned in no later than Wednesday of each week. Steps have been converted to miles (approximately 2500 steps = 1 mile). |
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Detailed Information About Teams (Miles are cumulative, however, steps are listed as total weekly steps.) |
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| Teams |
Week 1 (1/12/04 - 1/18/04) |
Week 2 (1/19/04 - 1/25/04) |
Week 3 (1/26/04 - 2/1/04) |
Week 4 (2/2/04 - 2/8/04) |
Week 5 (2/9/04 - 2/15/04) |
Week 6 (2/16/04 - 2/22/04 |
Week 7 (2/23/04 - 2/29/04) |
Week 8 (3/1/04 - 3/7/04) |
Week 9 (3/8/04 - 3/14/04) |
| Baby Steps (14) |
255 miles (698,603 steps) |
558 miles (697,267 steps) |
812 miles (634,462 steps) |
1063 miles (628,064 steps) |
1291 miles (568,620 steps) |
1448 miles (391,831 steps) |
1616 miles (419,278 steps) |
1783 miles (416,403 steps) |
1892 miles (273,706 steps) |
| School-Based Health Center/Public Housing (12) |
163 miles (407,389 steps) |
333 miles (423,916 steps) |
511 miles (447,251 steps) |
602 miles (227,141 steps) |
705 miles (257,693 steps) |
889 miles (461,513 steps) |
1039 miles (375,972 steps) |
1194 miles (387,574 steps) |
1386 miles (479,008 steps) |
| Child Guidance/Lab (12) |
201 miles (501,745 steps) |
288 miles (218,600 steps) |
348 miles (150,858 steps) |
409 miles (150,236 steps) |
475 miles (164,269 steps) |
475 miles (0 steps) |
475 miles (0 steps) |
475 miles (0 steps) |
475 miles (0 steps) |
| Footloose (9) |
93 miles (231,269 steps) |
204 miles (277,965 steps) |
267 miles (158,249 steps) |
371 miles (260,703 steps) |
371 miles (0 steps) |
371 miles (0 steps) |
371 miles (0 steps) |
371 miles (0 steps) |
371 miles (0 steps) |
| Charlie's Angels/WIC Chicks (10) |
142 miles (356,219 steps) |
295 miles (380,735 steps) |
434 miles (348,036 steps) |
581 miles (366,921 steps) |
708 miles (317,167 steps) |
836 miles (320,752 steps) |
957 miles (302,680 steps) |
1057 miles (274,831 steps) |
1195 miles (345,382 steps) |
| Business/Internal Medicine (11) |
65 miles (161,547 steps) |
157 miles (430,827 steps) |
381 miles (359,091 steps) |
442 miles (153,202 steps) |
559 miles (455,005 steps) |
788 miles (410,058 steps) |
922 miles (337,439 steps) |
1006 miles (210,000 steps) |
1107 miles (253,447 steps) |
| Sole Survivors (8) |
77 miles (191,477 steps) |
138 miles (152,430 steps) |
189 miles (128,363 steps) |
189 miles (0 steps) |
189 miles (0 steps) |
214 miles (63,536 steps) |
239 miles (62,302 steps) |
239 miles (0 steps) |
239 miles (0 steps) |
| Perinatal Survivors (8) |
65 miles (163,382 steps) |
104 miles (97,192 steps) |
158 miles (134,663 steps) |
203 miles (112,444 steps) |
210 miles (19,388 steps) |
232 miles (54,169 steps) |
237 miles (11,571 steps) |
266 miles (73,596 steps) |
282 miles (40,500 steps) |
The total distance from New Haven, Connecticut to Key West, Florida is 1860 miles.
2,500 steps is about 1 miles.
20 minutes of walking will be about 2,000 steps.
It will take approximately 4,650,000 million steps to get to Key West.
If a team of 10 people takes 6,000 steps each day, it would take about 11 weeks to get to Key West, Florida.
Great walking resource http://walking.about.com/?bfmid=7279965&siteid=32055569&bfpage=walking2
The East Coast Greenway®
Walkers, cyclists, and other trail advocates have joined forces around an
audacious project, a 2,600 mile traffic-free path linking East Coast cities from
Maine to Florida. Launched only 10 years ago, this vision for an urban
alternative to the highly popular Appalachian Trail is quickly becoming a
reality.
http://www.greenway.org
The 2004 Employee Walking Challenge Award Ceremony
Well it's over.
Thanks to all who participated in the Employee Walking Challenge and the Awards
Ceremony! The award ceremony was intended to celebrate all teams who
participated in the challenge. The Team results are available by
clicking here. Team participants are
available by clicking here. The food was
fantastic, with a hint of tropical flair, thanks to Grant St. Partnership.
A special thanks to the Human Resources Department for sponsoring the
event! Each team contributed at least one member to attend the lunch and
receive their certificates. We were able to witness each team’s progress first
hand on the beautiful map loaned to us by East
Coast Greenway (Thanks, Bill!). A special thanks to Sharon Bradford
(standing in the picture on the right) and Mimi Zoladia from the We WIN program
who have been more than supportive in this entire event. Even after all that
walking, everyone was still in a great mood and when told about the opportunity
to be challenged by another organization the response was: “Bring it on”!
