Time to break out the runners...
So three years ago, my company held a contest challenging employees to walk 1500km or roughly 2,025,000 steps in a year. They handed out free pedometers and signed us up on a site to track our steps. I managed about 5,000,000 steps by the time the year was through.
The project I’m on now is doing something similar, though only for six months instead of twelve and the goal is to walk enough steps to reach Japan from British Columbia (there are specific start and finish destinations, but they're really not that important). This time we’re working in teams, 15 teams with 10 members each, so it’s a competition and a challenge. Which team can reach Japan first? According to the challenge page, it’s 9,683,572 steps or 7,012 km (4,357.05 miles).
The challenge started last week but I didn’t get my pedometer until today, but it’s the same site as from three years ago, so you can plug in an activity and the length of time that you did it for and the site can spit out the supposed amount of steps that you took. So I was able to make up for last week, but it’s not an accurate summation of how many steps I took. Much to my chagrin, the team I was placed on is currently last in the standings. Gee, thanks.
Edit: Wait, while writing this the steps I entered for last week actually put my team up a standing. Whoo, go me!
Whatever the case may be, it’s a free pedometer and some motivation to get off of my butt for the next six months. Hopefully this pedometer is a bit more robust than the one I was using three years ago. That one broke while I was on vacation and I was super sad. I don’t want this one to break while I’m on my cruise since I know I will be doing a ton of walking.
Things that work in my advantage: 1) I walk to work so that’s a bunch of steps I have to take every day 2) I don’t drive, so that forces me to walk to a lot of places, too 3) my cubicle is in like the furthest corner possible from the woman’s washroom, so that’s a bunch of steps, too. I should drink a lot of water so I have to go to the bathroom lots. ;-)
Oh, and the weather is getting nice, too, so it will be easier to get out and go for a stroll around the block or something. Too bad I can’t knit and walk at the same time. That’d be the best sort of multitasking.
The project I’m on now is doing something similar, though only for six months instead of twelve and the goal is to walk enough steps to reach Japan from British Columbia (there are specific start and finish destinations, but they're really not that important). This time we’re working in teams, 15 teams with 10 members each, so it’s a competition and a challenge. Which team can reach Japan first? According to the challenge page, it’s 9,683,572 steps or 7,012 km (4,357.05 miles).
The challenge started last week but I didn’t get my pedometer until today, but it’s the same site as from three years ago, so you can plug in an activity and the length of time that you did it for and the site can spit out the supposed amount of steps that you took. So I was able to make up for last week, but it’s not an accurate summation of how many steps I took. Much to my chagrin, the team I was placed on is currently last in the standings. Gee, thanks.
Edit: Wait, while writing this the steps I entered for last week actually put my team up a standing. Whoo, go me!
Whatever the case may be, it’s a free pedometer and some motivation to get off of my butt for the next six months. Hopefully this pedometer is a bit more robust than the one I was using three years ago. That one broke while I was on vacation and I was super sad. I don’t want this one to break while I’m on my cruise since I know I will be doing a ton of walking.
Things that work in my advantage: 1) I walk to work so that’s a bunch of steps I have to take every day 2) I don’t drive, so that forces me to walk to a lot of places, too 3) my cubicle is in like the furthest corner possible from the woman’s washroom, so that’s a bunch of steps, too. I should drink a lot of water so I have to go to the bathroom lots. ;-)
Oh, and the weather is getting nice, too, so it will be easier to get out and go for a stroll around the block or something. Too bad I can’t knit and walk at the same time. That’d be the best sort of multitasking.