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Walking Moai: week 10!
Posted by jeshuaerickson on August 28, 2009
Final results are in! Participants in the AARP/Blue Zones Walking Moai Program have walked over 75 million steps, or approximately 37,500 miles. AND participants have worked over 2,270 volunteer hours!! Read more and add a comment
Walking Moai: week 9
Posted by jeshuaerickson on August 22, 2009
Week 9 results are in! Participants in the AARP/Blue Zones Walking Moai Program have walked over 66 million steps, or approximately 33,000 miles. AND participants have worked over 1,900 volunteer hours!! Read more and add a comment
Walking Moai: week 8
Posted by jeshuaerickson on August 13, 2009
Big News! The end of this summer's AARP/Blue Zones Walking Moai Program is upon us. All steps, points and hours must be done by August 23 at 8pm in order to count toward the final total. All steps must be reported by coordinators to me by August 26th at 8pm. And the final wrap-up event will be on August 27th...more details coming soon! Read more and add a comment
Walking Moai: week 7
Posted by jeshuaerickson on August 6, 2009
Our most successful week to date! Up until now our highest week total for steps was 8,361,363, and that was three weeks ago. This week we walked 8,501,617 steps, which brings our AARP/Blue Zones Walking Moai Program total to over 47 million steps! Great work everyone!! Read more and add a comment
Walking Moai: week 6
Posted by jeshuaerickson on July 30, 2009
Teams in the AARP/Blue Zones Walking Moai Program have walked over 39 million steps. That's nearly 20 thousand miles! And the total number of volunteer hours so far: 627. That's the equivalent of over 2.5 months of full-time work! Read more and add a comment
Walking Moai: week 5
Posted by jeshuaerickson on July 22, 2009
Thanks to everyone who showed up for Good Morning America at Brookside! What a blast! If you haven't seen the video yet, check it out here: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/.
Five weeks into the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project, Albert Leans have walked over 30 million steps, or approximately 15,000 miles. Total number of volunteer hours worked: 471. And "moai points" are gradually growing, with one clear leader in this category: Early Risers with 12 moai points. These numbers are amazing! Read more and add a comment
Walking Moai: week 4
Posted by jeshuaerickson on July 14, 2009
The totals for week four of the Blue Zones/AARP Walking Moai program. Amazingly, we have 4 teams with over 1 million steps each so far. The leading team, Blood Sweat and Duct Tape, has just over 2 million steps (that's approximately 1000 miles of walking). Read more and add a comment
Walking Moai: week 3
Posted by jeshuaerickson on July 8, 2009
We have another week of moai walking to add to our totals. Some walking moais have really accumulated steps. Two teams have more than ONE MILLION STEPS! (FYI, the leading team in the steps category has 1,327,483 steps, which is approximately 663 miles!) Read more and add a comment
Walking Moai competition heats up
Posted by jeshuaerickson on June 26, 2009
Almost every day I get emails from area coordinators who want me to clarify the Walking Moai program rules because teams in their neighborhoods are getting VERY competitive. Read more and add a comment
Do we all need a thicker skin?
Posted by jeshuaerickson on March 3, 2009
One commenter notes, “this is a COMMENT board not rocket science…” possibly arguing we ought not to expect a lot from folks who leave comments after articles on the Albert Lea Tribune website. Read more and add a comment
