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