I'm doing the global coroporate challenge with work. It's basically a program pushed out via busniesses who get their employees to form teams and encourage them to get more active during a 16 week period. The goal is 10,000 steps a day. At first, I was reluctant to sign on, as any kind of committment to exercise is automatically rejected in my innately lazy self. But since I walk 1.2 kms each way to and from work every day, I actually automatically walk about 3500 steps just from that. So I decided to bite the bullet and sign up!
Since it hasn't been too busy at work lately, we have been able to go for walks at lunch time to bump our steps up, which i guess means the program is working because we are doing about 40 minutes of continuous walking that normally we wouldn't do. It has been really sunny this week in Vancouver so it has been very nice walking down by the waterfront towards Stanley Park. Today we were walking along the waterfront when we noticed a lot of people standing still and staring, some with cameras out. We peeked over the edge and saw a big heron with an eel about 10 inches long in its beak. Wish I had my phone to take a picture. The poor eel was writhing around a little bit trying to free itself but it was beat. My vegetarian coworker that I was walking with felt so bad for the poor eel, and i was like, yummmmm, unagi.
Countering the effects of the walk, both days I have had a coffee frappucino from Starbucks at the end before heading back to sit my f@t @ss at my desk. Perhaps publishing some stats will motivate me!
Steps today so far (June 5): 8,616
Total steps yesterday (June 4): 12,791
Personal best to date: 17,268 (Vegas forcing me to schlep around over the weekend)
Step average: 11,765
Really cool how world-wide this thing is. My friend in DC that we met up with in NYC a couple of weeks ago mentioned counting her steps and we realized we were both in this challenge thing this year. Her team is ranked 3,709. My team is ranked 24,157. I'm contributing 30% of the distance walked so far to my team of 7 though so I blame them.
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