Weekly Step Contest

I won a prize for the weekly step contest that was held at work.  We started on May 1 and we were each given a pedometer.  We were to keep track of our steps, record them and then at the end of the contest winners will be drawn for prizes.  This contest was open to every county employee.

Today was the end of the contest and we had to turn in our logs by 11:30 this morning for the drawings.  I won a $50 gift card to Scheels.  That will come in handy for some new shoes.

There were only 6 people who turned in their sheets and they drew for 3 prizes.  I don't think we won because of who did the most, least or whatever, it was just a random draw.  The other two were Betty Brauer the head of the maintainence dept, and Dulcie Bear Don't Walk the elections administrator.  We each won a gift card.

We won't get them until tomorrow, they want to have a little ceremony for us.  Our prizes will be presented and we get our pictures taken for prosperity.

For the record I walked 756,835 steps.  That is roughly 378 miles (2000 steps is considered 1 mile), 54 miles per week, 7.7 miles per day.

Wearing the pedometer makes you more aware to get your steps in, they want people to get 10,000 steps a day.  I would make the extra effort to get up and move.  We were also given a chart for other activity that we could count as steps.  For swimming I was able to take 120 steps for every minute of swimming.  When I would work out on the elliptical machines I was able to take 270 steps for every minute.  It really wasn't hard to get 10,000 a day.