Winter Walking Challenge - Update - Week 1

The Winter Walking Challenge is now in its second week and we have been getting fantastic reports back from the group co-ordinators.  The weather is no match for our enthusiastic steppers, they are putting on their jackets, their woolly hats and getting out there - well done! 
There are 13 groups in all taking part with a total of 86 people from across Waterford involved in the four week programme.  Here are the average weekly steps for each group -

Group	Average steps for Week 1
CODP	not available
Creepy Crawlers	26,585
Mad for Tar	33,903
Road Runners	36,659
Survival of the Fittest	40,476
The Arthritis Walkers	not available
The Mighty Doyles	27,267
The Pink Steppers	25,072
The Red Devils	27,297
The Striders	42,689
The Trail Blazers	57,003
The XPERT group	89,089
Walk Abouts	28,278

Well done to all the groups. Most of you are not far off climbing Mount Blanc in France (30,420 steps) and we even have a few groups near or past the distance of Mount Everest (58,070 steps)!! 

From now on it will be all about the improvements each group makes every week. So make sure to try and do a few more steps this week. This week we visited ‘Survival of the Fittest’ who meet every Thursday to take on the hill on the Dunmore Road, Waterford City. They walk for approximately an hour and even do a few warm-up moves before they go.  Great to see you ladies keep up the good work!



'Survival of the Fittest' Walking Group

We also managed to catch most of the ‘Pink Steppers’ on Tuesday before they stepped out on their weekly stroll.  They looked fantastic in their pink high viz vests.  There are 13 women in the Pink Steppers group however some were so keen to get going they wouldn’t wait for the photo!

'Pink Steppers' Walking Group

We look forward to meeting more groups next week.  Remember to keep working on those steps let’s see if we can increase them from last week’s figures.