Before the month of May, my company's fitness guy (Steve Suhaka) decided to announce another fitness challenge to Juniper Systems employees and their families. The previous 4 months, Steve made a fitness challenge for Juniper employees that looked at how many pushups and situps you could do, as well as VO2 max and body mass index. This current fitness challenge is a cardio challenge where each person participating will track how many miles they cover in 5 different categories:
- Walking
- Hiking
- Running
- Cycling
- Swimming
Because Cycling miles aren't the same as running/walking miles, each mile cycling will count as 1/3 of a mile. And because of the strenuousness of swimming, each mile of swimming will count as 3. Running, Hiking, and Walking will all count normally; 1:1.
The overall goal of this cardio fitness challenge was to have the participants cover 20,000 miles over the course of 16 weeks. With some rough calculations, that means the 80+ people signed up would need to cover about 15 or so miles per week; which is doable. At the end of the fitness challenge, Juniper Systems will have a 5k fun run to cap it off. A mileage sheet was emailed to the participants to record each person's miles for each of the 16 weeks (in each category of cardo).
I was pretty excited about this because I had already signed up for a half marathon and this would help motivate me to run. And I had a feeling that they would reward people who ran the furthest, etc and I am hoping to be one of those people. I was a little sad that Lisa couldn't do this because, at the start of this, she was about 6 months pregnant.
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