Mileage Rules

Feryal asked me to post a quick clarification on the mileage rules.

1) You CAN and should wear the pedometer all day and accumulate miles. This encourages walking, and being active throughout the day.

2) Unless your exercise IS walking or running, you SHOULD NOT wear the pedometer. It should instead be calculated by the hour (4 miles per hour). So if you were to play a 1 hour tennis match or weight lift, you would get 4 miles(for an hour of exercise), not what the pedometer says, and not the combination of the pedometer and the 4 miles.

3) If you do walk or run for an hour, you would count only the distance on the pedometer (or treadmill). You WOULD NOT add 4 miles for having exercised for an hour.

Update to Walk Across US Competition Rules

Please be advised - if you are walking or running you will be allowed to report what your pedometer registers. For ANY other exercise, you will accumulate 4 miles for every hour of exercise.

Thanks and good luck!

Kick off day and time will be announced on Tuesday afternoon!