Walking Team Challenge

4 days, 12 teams, 3,712,000 steps resulting in 1856 miles walked. A huge achievement for all of the walkers in our walking team challenge. Well done to everyone who took part.

The results are as follows; 

Place	Team	Miles	Prize
1st	Team Claydon	115	Cinema Voucher
2nd	Green walkers	113	Kidspace voucher
3rd	Willy Wonkas Walkers	109	Old MacDonald’s farm Tickets
4th	Team Minstreal	109	Giant jigsaw puzzle
5th	Team Owsley	108	Giant jigsaw puzzle
6th	Broadford Babes	107	1 Direction scooter
7th	Team Mersh	105	Hello kitty art set
8th	Chilvers Chicks	102	Chocolate bar maker

Congratulations to all of the winners. If you haven't collected your prizes please pop into the office. 

10,000 STEPS A DAY

Do you know that we should all be walking around 10,000 steps per day to ensure that we lead a healthy lifestyle.
A sedentary person may only average 1,000 to 3,000 steps a day. For these people adding steps has many health benefits. Below is an outline of the basic 10,000 steps program.

A reasonable goal for most people is to increase average daily steps each week by 500 per day until you can easily average 10,000 per day. Example: If you currently average 3000 steps each day, your goal for week one is 3500 each day. Your week 2 goal is 4000 each day. Continue to increase each week and you should be averaging 10,000 steps by the end of 14 weeks.

There are many ways to increase your daily steps. Use your imagination and come up with your own list:

• Take a walk with your spouse, child, or friend
• Walk the dog
• Use the stairs instead of the elevator
• Park farther from the store
• Better yet, walk to the store
• Get up to change the channel
• Window shop
• Plan a walking meeting
• Walk over to visit a neighbor
• Get outside to walk around the garden or do a little weeding