Then one day…

over the course of an eight hour work day, I look at my step count at 5 o’clock one afternoon. It read 5260. And something hit me. I looked up from the iPhone I use to measure my steps, knowing with my evening walk on town lake I would make 10,000 steps. And on that walk, I started to do some math, which I always do to pass the time when I walk and swim. Sometimes I count how far I’ve gone, or I divide how far I have left to go in to fractions. Then I wondered how many steps were in a marathon. With the 5260 steps from the workday still in my head, it hit me again. With an average of 2000 steps in a mile, in 10 days, during the work day alone, by repeating that day again, I would have gone 26.3 miles… A marathon in 10 working days. And the good news, I realized, is that it only takes a few breaks a day of 10-15 minutes, cleverly spaced, for most people to get in their 5260 steps, and take a huge leap toward wellness and improved productivity and more satisfying lives.

I hope you and everyone you work with at your company can join us.