Walktober 2011

In October 2011, 6 committed Wokabaot Jalens teams signed up to compete in an online pedometer challenge, organized by the Australian Government. This program is free of charge and all you need is a pedometer, a team of 4 and internet access. 

It is a very challenging program – 1700 (!) individuals from Australia participated, both men and women. “After the first week we realized that our Vanuatu teams are in the top scoring teams!” 

Four weeks of hard walking have come to an end and three of the Vanuatu teams are among the top 10 teams of all 444 teams! These enthusiastic teams were highly committed and managed to walk up to 40.000 steps a day. 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Read the full story here.

looking back at the walktober challenge 2011. One participants shares her story:

We thought we (our team) give this challenge a try: Not only were we walking, it was a great way of sharing and learning about new healthier experiences that we are facing through the challenge. 

We were also looking for ways to improve our fitness (i.e climbing hills, walking certain distances, or walking at a certain pace). We were walking constantly to shops, bus stops, to pick up print outs instead of sending someone else to pick it up etc :)))
 

Personally this online challenge has boosted my energy to where I am now. I have been walking already so the online challenge enabled me to increase my steps and gradually try and increase it daily over the course of the challenge.

We have a great team leader who continuously encouraged our team to walk more. The results during the challenge for me is; some weight loss and an increase in my energy levels. 

Our team (Vanuatu Eagles) is continuing to walk twice a week eventhough the challenge ended and we have other interested friends who want to join our team to walk.

Thank you for making it possible for us to participate.  And if there is another one in the future, please count us in!

Best regards

XXX

Continued commitment

Hi again, 
we will try and send you some pictures soon,  as our walking sessions still continues after the October Walk ended last week. It's twice a week group walking - Monday and Thursday.

Oh Katja, other women are so interested and already we have a new member walking with us now with no pedometer - she does not care.  By the way Katja can you help us buy/order more pedometers at our own cost, I tried asking transport @ ... but they were unable to assist.

Thank you tumas
xxx