This year due to interest and demand we added a fall Walk Across Texas (WAT) event to complement our annual spring event. We had excellent participation with 12 teams and a little over 100 head of folks participating.
We seemed to have had some trouble with emails and several folks missed the incredibly inspiring weekly updates, sorry we will try to figure that out before next spring.
The Walk Across Texas program encourages people to develop a habit of regular physical activity. Teams and individuals walk or run, dance, garden, swim or do any other form of exercise for an eight‐week period. Each 20 minutes of exercise counts as one mile.
At the end of that time each team’s or person’s total mileage is added up. The goal for each team is to virtually walk the 832 miles it would take to cross Texas during the eight-week period.
You can do this by logging in several types of activities that can be converted into miles. To help keep you motivated you can log in and track your individual and team progress throughout the program.
While 832 miles is the goal for the teams most all the teams and even some individuals surpassed the goal by a long way.
Now that the program has ended, and everyone has entered their final mileages there are some impressive totals and very close competition. For the overall top individual, it was close throughout the 8-week program, our Sylvia Torres lead our previous champion Arturo Ramirez by a few miles every week, but in the end, Arturo pulled ahead with a total of 837 miles while Sylvia had an also very impressive 823 miles.
Yes, they each walked that many miles in 8 weeks, not their whole team, just them as individuals.
Here are our top 5 teams and top 10 individuals. Top teams: Kickin Asphalt with 3101 miles, they really did kick some asphalt. 2 nd place Walk More Eat More with 2707 miles, 3rd place Crazy 8’s with 1762 miles, 4th place Dusty Walkers with 1623 miles, and 5th place Movers and Shakers with 1565 miles. Top 10 individuals: Arturo Ramirez with 857 miles, 2nd place Sylvia Torres with 823 miles, 3 rd place Steve Hicks with 606 miles, 4th place Sandra Leal with 544 miles, 5th place Jake Escobar with 493 miles, 6th place Andy Hesbrook with 476 miles, 7th place Verna Tippie with 434 miles, 8 th place Mike Berry with 352 miles, 9th place Kim Galvan with 307 miles and 10th place Cindy Gibson with 298 miles. Great job everyone.
We appreciate everyone that participated and hope you received lots of benefit from your participation in the program.
We want to thank our sponsors Texas Bank, DeLeon Fitness Center and Fitness 110. If you would be interested in participating in an upcoming WAT event, we will host another one this coming spring.