Million-step Monday — walking in the cold

The mercury plummeting below freezing levels doesn’t mean you can’t get out and log some steps during the winter months.

To make your winter walking a little easier, warmer and more enjoyable, we have linked this story to several Web resources with tips for cold-weather walking. Click on the highlighted words to access tips from About.com, ehow.com, Prevention.com or HealthyWorld Online.

The following is a list of UNMC employees who have recently reached one of the 250,000-step markers in the 1 Million Step Challenge. Send an e-mail to today@unmc.edu with your name, department and tell us what step milestone you reached and we’ll post it on the list.

1 million steps

  • Stewart Abelbeck, sponsored programs accounting
  • Janet Herde, sponsored programs accounting
  • Jo Giles, public affairs
  • Cyndie Poffenbarger, sponsored programs accounting
  • Craig Poole, sponsored programs accounting
  • Yanyan Zhu, sponsored programs accounting

1.5 million steps

  • Valarie Warner, sponsored programs accounting

1.75 million steps

  • Steve Byrne, sponsored programs accounting
  • Patricia O’Neil, sponsored programs accounting

2 million steps

  • Peter Iwen, Ph.D., pathology/microbiology

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