Twelve walkers will walk across the USA in a 3100 mile relay walk starting April 18, 2006. The Sportline Steps Across America starts with a send-off by champion figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi in New York City from the Chelsea Piers and should end 14 weeks later in Paramount, California. The National Walkers will take turns walking 20 miles every 3 days.
The walk is sponsored by Sportline pedometers and features health rallies at Wal-Mart stores along the way. You can join in online with the 6-week Sportline Steps Across America President's Challenge.
Meet the Walkers
- Kam Flynn of the US Secret Service, who tells us how she is excited to be joining in this adventure. National Walker: Kam Flynn.
- Ken Bechtel turns 40 on Sunday, April 16, just two days before starting the walk. National Walker: Ken Bechtel
Here in Netherlands a new way of walking gets more and more popular. It is said it burns much more calories than normal or sport walking and is a complete walkout for the whole body.
It is called here nordic walking and it is with two sticks.
It is a bit related to cross country skiing. It origins from Scandinavia and becomes more and more popular here.
Here is an URL so you can see
http://www.nordicwalking.com/portal/nordic_walking/english/
regards..
Albert – it’s good to hear that nordic walking is continuing to grow in popularity. I have a step-by-step guide on nordic walking and I enjoy nordic walking myself. At our Discovery Walk Festival April 28-30 in Vancouver, Washington USA we are giving LEKI pins to all nordic walkers. Also, for our walk logo for next year we feature a nordic walker.
The thing that this Steps Across America is saying is to walk with a pedometer…it’s cool to track yourself and keep beating yestereday’s total steps!