Health & Fitness
C'mon, Rockridge: Let's Walk And Win 'Fittest County' Challenge!
Goal is to walk 150 minutes per week through June 5. (Contest actually began Sunday, so we need to get a move on.)
Bay Area Moves (BAM) is challenging residents of Contra Costa and Alameda counties, along with others in the Bay Area, to commit to 150 minutes of walking each week for 16 weeks as an individual endeavor or as as part of a nine-county-vs.-county challenge.
The challenge began Feb. 14 and runs through June 5.
Participants sign up as individuals or teams and record their walking times to receive certificates and become eligible for prize drawings. There is also a competition between the nine Bay Area counties, and the time participants spend walking also counts toward the totals of their home counties. The county with the most minutes logged wins recognition as the “Fittest County.”
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Registration is free at www.Heart360.org/BayAreaMoves.
Walking is one of the simplest ways to maintain physical fitness and reduce obesity!
BAM is a project of the Bay Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Collaborative (BANPAC) in partnership with the American Heart Association. For health tips or more information about the BAM Walking Challenge, visitbanpac.org/banpac_resources_bay_area_moves.htm
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- --Photo of East Bay’s Dougherty Hills Open Space courtesy of Patch reader James Morehead. And a very nice place to walk!
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