My Plan For Health

If Charlie had five angels: Kristen, Julia, me, Emily, and Ellen. (Photo by Jo McCulty)

…and bikin’, and golfin’, and kickboxin’. And that’s just a small selection of the activities that are going to help me and my teammates rock this year’s Hit the Road with the Buckeyes Challenge.

Team Kinnear (named after the west campus road where University Communications is located) is: Kristen Convery, Web Editor in our New Media unit; Julia Harris, Associate Editor of onCampus; Emily Caldwell, Assistant Director of Research Communications; Ellen Hoover, Web Designer in our New Media unit; and me.

If the crowds of people picking up their free pedometer at the wellness fair were any indication, lots of faculty and staff are taking the challenge!

Our team is off to a bit of an inauspicious start, as one of us immediately lost her pedometer (suprisingly, it wasn’t me), and another pedometer just stopped working. I wore mine to belly dancing class and it whipped right off of me and cracked on the hardwood floor. It stopped working, too, so I just shook it until it started working again. A high-tech solution, eh?

We are not the only ones to have problems, and Human Resources sent out an email to all participants this week apologizing for any defective pedometers and saying that they are working on a solution. We can still keep track of all our steps, however, using the step calculator on the Hit the Road Website. Many different forms of exercise are listed there, along with the number of “steps” that they count towards.

Remember to enter your first week’s steps before midnight tonight, or they won’t count!