Team Tracker Week 2

After two weeks of competition, the Easy Striders remain in first although the Cobra Kai did make up some ground.

The Cobra Kai set the bar with a 1 week team total of 256.314miles.  The bar has been set and this is the 1 week record to beat.  The Easy striders are still the team to catch as they have now been first through the first three capitals.

The biggest movers this week were the Insain Bolts moving from 5th to 3rd and We've Got Sole moved up from 6th to 5th.

The Easy Striders - First to Pass Concord, NH

State bird: Purple finch State flower: Purple Lilac Population: 1,235,786 people
Nickname: Granite State Economy: Dairy products, nursery stock, cattle, apples, eggs, machinery, electronic equipment, rubber and plastic products, tourism Fun facts: The first potato planted in the US was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719. Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787. State motto is "Live Free or Die" and comes from a statement written by the Revolutionary General John Stark, hero of the Battle of Bennington. Sarah Josepha Hale, author and journalist from Newport, New Hampshire, wrote the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1830. It takes approximately 40 gallons of sap to make approximately 1 gallon of maple syrup. Captain John Smith named New Hampshire after the town of Hampshire, England. In 1833 the first free public library was opened in Petersborough. New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the US in 1963.

Learn About Maine

AUGUSTA, MAINE

State bird: Chickadee State flower: Whitepine cone and tassel State insect: Honeybee
Population: 1,274,923 people Nickname: Pine Tree State Economy: Seafood, poultry and eggs, potatoes, dairy products, cattle, blueberries, apples, paper, lumber, and wood products
Fun facts: Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.
Approximately 40 millions pounds (nearly 90%) of the nation’s lobster supply is caught off the coast of Maine. Maine producers 99% of all the blueberries in the country making it the single largest producer of blueberries in the United States. 90% of the country’s toothpick supply is produced in Maine. Portland is the birthplace of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Maine contains 542,629 acres of state and national parks. In Wilton, Maine, there is a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens. Bath, Maine is known as the City of Ships.

Team Tracker Week 1

After one week (A partial week really), the Easy Striders are running away with the lead. Just over 181 Miles! Great Job! The Cobra Kai is in Second with 145 miles while the Road Runners are in third with 143 miles. See below for updated maps. Full standings are posted on the right hand panel.

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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.

Team Leaders!!!!

CUMULATIVE MILES FOR WED - SUN DUE BY NOON TODAY!

THANK YOU!

And the Race Begins!

The extra pedometers are on the way (apparently sitting in the Phoenix UPS warehouse) and due to arrive here at corporate tomorrow. There are 3 people that I am aware of who are without a working pedometer. They are: Michelle Lucas, Danny Pehrson and Kathleen Hawkins. If there is anyone else, please let me know ASAP! Otherwise we are kicking off this race as of midnight tonight (12:00 am Wednesday morning).

Those of you without a pedometer (Michelle, Danny and Kathleen), please do your exercising on a machine that will measure miles for now (or you will get 4 miles for each hour of exercise - see previous posting).

Team Leaders I will need cumulative MILES from you on Monday (9/8) for Wednesday through Sunday this week.

Have fun and let the race begin!