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Download an easy-to-read color-coded map and try out one of UNMC’s various indoor walking “trails.” |
Walking – just walking! – is in itself great exercise, said Peter Pellerito, fitness specialist at the Center for Healthy Living.
“You don’t have to go for an extremely long walk,” he said. “With 10 minute brisk walks, where a person would accumulate about 150 minutes of walking per week, a person could achieve significant health benefits.”
So in conjunction with the UNMC Winter Decathlon, Pellerito has compiled a listing of UNMC’s various indoor walking “trails” and put them all on an easy-to-read color-coded map.
Everyone knows that there are various hallways and tunnels between buildings on campus. But who knows how many they are, where they are and where they go?
Now we do.
Well, mostly.
“The other day I ran into another one that I was unaware of when I made the map,” Pellerito said.
If you are looking to take a walk without going out into the cold:
- There is a tunnel that goes from level 1 of the College of Nursing and level 1 of the College of Pharmacy underneath 42nd Street to Level 2 of Poynter Hall and level 2 of Wittson Hall (about .1 miles).
- There is another tunnel that goes from level 2 of the Durham Outpatient Center and University Tower to the Lied Transplant Center or Bennett Hall or Eppley Science Hall (about .1 miles).
- On the Concourse level of the DOC (level 1) there are hallways and skywalks that go to the Clarkson Doctor’s Building North (about .3 miles).
- There are hallways and a skywalk that go from DOC level 1 past the dock to Swanson level 3 to the Durham Research Center level 2 (about .2 miles).
- There are hallways that that go from DOC level 3 to University Tower level 3 and Wittson level 3 (about .17 miles).
- There is a skywalk that goes from Wittson level 4 to Sorrell Center level 2 (about .11 miles from Wittson to east end of Sorrell).
- Bennett Hall, Wittson Hall and Poynter Hall are all connected on level 4 (about .1 miles).
And of course, each new indoor trail counts toward the decathlon, a 10-week challenge for UNMC employees, designed to increase activity and show us the activity options available on campus.
So take a tunnel walk.
Pellerito noted that while walking indoors on campus it is important to remember to be respectful of those who are there as patients, and for work.