{"id":30461,"date":"2007-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2007\/06\/04\/million-step-monday-still-time-to-start-walking\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T05:00:00","slug":"million-step-monday-still-time-to-start-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2007\/06\/04\/million-step-monday-still-time-to-start-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Million-step Monday — Still time to start walking"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nThis story is the first of a series titled “Million-step Mondays.” Such stories will appear in UNMC Today every other Monday and will include updates and other information about the challenge. <\/p>\n

These stories also will include charts recognizing individuals for reaching the 250,000-step intervals. If you reach the one of these milestones, send an e-mail with your name, department and date you reached the milestone to today@unmc.edu<\/a> and we’ll list it in UNMC Today.
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\n<\/TABLE>After three weeks, more than 750 UNMC employees — including 86 teams — have joined UNMC’s Virtual Trek Across Nebraska.<\/p>\n

Some employees are even close to reaching the 250,000-step mark, which represents the distance between Omaha and Aurora<\/p>\n

That said, there’s time for people and teams to join the challenge, said Jayme Nekuda of the Center for Healthy Living (CFHL). <\/p>\n

“The challenge lasts a year and we’re just getting started,” Nekuda said. “There’s plenty of time for employees to register and start walking.”<\/p>\n

The objective of the challenge is to have each participating employee to log at least 1 million steps over the next year, Nekuda said. One million steps roughly equates to the distance between Omaha and western Nebraska’s Chimney Rock. <\/p>\n

Here’s how the challenge works:
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