Could You Walk 100 Miles in 100 Days?

Some companies are starting to stress health for employees. This is a great benefit to them because it helps with their health insurance premium but it also helps the employees.

The company I work for has begun its yearly 100 miles in 100 days walk. We sign up and walk daily to win great prizes. Our goal for everyone is 100 miles each person that signed up. This is free to us, and is a bonus for the company. The time frame they set for us is perfect, spring. We go from late March through July. It's 100 days of walking and we need to walk 100 miles in that time. We don't need to do it daily, but no one wants to make up a few miles in one day. We usually walk about one to one and a half mile a day so we have a cushion in case we can not walk everyday.

Why does this work? People are more apt to exercise if they have someone to exercise this. Signing up at work this means that others are signing up and will motivate you to continue to walk even when you don't want to. It doesn't take long to walk a mile. If you walk slowly, it may take about 25 minutes. This will decrease as you get used to walking, and start walking faster.

You can walk in groups, there is usually someone always walking to get to their goal. Because it doesn't take long to walk a mile, you can even do this at lunch time, and still have time to grab a quick sandwich.

It's a great way to relax after working all day, you can catch up on events from your co-workers and share some laughs.

Walking with friends will make the walk less daunting. It's never boring as we always have someone different to walk with, even at lunch you can find a walking buddy.

Some of us at work are working in Customer Service, working with the public. You can't avoid losing weight if you are walking a mile a day at least so the customers are seeing transformation of you losing weight. It's a great way to get others to start to exercise and become healthy. It's also great to get compliments from the customers about your weight loss. On Friday's we all wear our specially designed T-shirts to show that we are part of the walking group and it's a great way to start a conversation with your customers.

Even if your company doesn't offer a program like this, it's easy to get started with several cp-workers and you will be surprised at how many others start walking with you once they see the results that you have from walking.