Coast to Coast Challenge....SIGN-UP
 

Love to walk? Don't love it but you are doing it anyways ? Up for a challenge?

JOIN US IN THE COAST TO COAST CHALLENGE

A group of started with the "March of the Chicks" challenge as we tried to meet a collective goal of 1 million steps. We met that goal last week :carrot:

Now. we want to collectively log enough steps/miles to walk "virtually, through the magic of computers" across the US, via Interstate I-90. We'll start near Boston, MA in a little town called Hopedale and we'll walk our way to Seattle, Washington. As we pass through an area that our fellow chicks live near, we'll invite them to share a little about it. If we get the technology thing down, we can post pictures of the area, too.

Since we all have a different stride length we've settled on a standard of 10K steps equaling 5 miles.

There a bit of planning left, so the plan is to start Saturday, March 25th. Hopedale's an very interesting little town, and I'll post a little about that too.

If you'd like to join in, please add a post signing up hear and then we will start walking/logging on Saturday. I will establish a separate thread then. To make the tracking easier.

Join us, won't you.
I still have a bit of mapping to go, but we

Yippee! Got my trusty pedo in my pocket and I'm ready to start steppin'!

Thanks, Chris, for getting this together!

Yay, Lena you are the first to sign-up, or second I guess :D . I e-mailed the moderator for the exercise forum and asked her to sticky this thread.

This should be fun, I can't wait to get my new sneakers and pedometer this weekend.

Walk with you soon :dancer:

===raising hand=== Me me me. I am ready to go!! :dance: And I too have brand new sneakers LOL

Yes, thanks for all your hard work in organizing this!

Stickied! Hot diggity! Thanks to whichever power-that-be did it!

Glad to see you here, Dance! Boy, with the two of you having new sneakers... wow! We're gonna tear across country at lightning speed! Zoom!

LOL yah she got it stickied! This is the sign up thread so not sure if we are supposed to be chatting here LOL but soon we will have the second thread! This is exciting... wow I wonder when I will come walking in home LOL... it's a LONG way from MA. :dance:

Whoops! :o Shhhhhh :sssh: Won't say another word then!

:ziplip: ((zips lips and tiptoes out of the room)) :D

HI
I would love to go on this stroll with all of you across the country. It sounds like a lot of fun.

I better dust off my walking shoes.

Jayde

You gals know I'm in! I can't wait to get started. :running:

Yay :welcome: Jayde and Lydia. Yeh Lydia we were kind of expecting you! :)

Jayde, glad you decided to join in too!

Welcome to:

Michele
Jayde
Lydia


That's 6 of us! The countdown begins...4 days to go. Get your sneakers and pedometers ready :carrot:

Can I join in? I have sneakers and pedometer ready!
Kathy

Hi Kathy... glad you are joining us! :welcome3:

Thanks for the welcome. I am looking forward to the exercise as much as I am to the geography lessons and friendship.

u... How many miles is this route?

do you need a pedometer to do this or can you go by miles? If miles are ok - I would love to join!

No you don't need a pedometer at all! Miles are what it is all about! Great having you, Bailey! And Jayde, HM is our mileage keeper LOL so I am sure she will be posting more info soon!

Bailey, I hadn't planned on wearing a pedometer but only logging in miles from the treadmill. I'm glad you are joining us.

Joy, I gotta get my road atlas dusted off...
Maybe I will even post it on the wall..

Welcome to Bailey and Jayde :woo:

I thought I had responded yesterday, but I think that I previewed and never submitted, oops! As Dance said mileage is just fine, a lot of are using pedometers, but really either way. In fact with mileage it'll be even easier to track.

I am glad that you'll both be joining us. :)

...and the mileage from Hopedale to Seattle is 3,066 miles. No problem, we can tackle that, right?

The chat/walking thread is up now, so if you haven't already please sign-up here, but we can chat over there. We'll start logging our steps on Saturday, only 2 days to go....

What a great idea. I would love to join you all so sign me up!

I would love to join in, but do I have to use a pedometer? I was planning on just using the distance I cover on my exercise route....
Maybe I'll get a pedometer just for fun. Are the expensive?

OOPS I should have kept reading the thread....:^: Well, see you Sat!

This is great! Looks like we have at least 10 folks already! We're going to cover the distance at lightning speed!

Welcome, welcome
 

Welcome No Spring chick and Apple blossom, glad to have you on board. :)

Yay :welcome3: No Spring Chick and Apple Blossom! Glad you are joining up with us!

Okay... we have

HealthierMe
Lena
Dance4Joy
Michele
Jayde
Lydia
Kathy
Bailey
No Spring Chick
Apple Blossom

That is 10 of us so far.

I'm in!
 

If you guys will let me, I'm definitely in. Is my running allowed too? I'm starting some of that at this point... Mostly walking still.

Dee

Welcome Dee! Of course everyone is welcome to join in!!! Glad to have you. And yes, running is great... will help us get across the country faster. :) I am about to start a bit of that too I think!!

I see you are from the Keys... I used to live in Fort Lauderdale :sunny:

Okay, I found ya! Thanks for the link...

I'm in too. I'll get a pedometer this weekend, as my elliptical doesn't calculate mileage, just steps. I'm nowhere near I-90, unfortunately, so no travel guide from me, but I'll be happy to add my miles!

Happy walking/running/stepping!

-lala

Hi lala and welcome! Glad you are in!! And you can use the step pedometer if you want; we are counting the average of 2000 steps in a mile!!! Wow we have 12 now from all areas of the country. Would be nice to have some International people here so they can tour the US :)

For everyone... for chat on this thread go to:

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79678

Fantastic! Welcome, Lala! And everyone! Great team we've got!

I want to join! I'm a Yank that's living in Canada now, so I can visit vicariously through this walk across the US. I also need to convert from kilometers to miles. I still haven't got that whole kilometers thing down. This sounds like a lot of fun and a motivator to get me out there!

Yay Odaley... :welcome3: Glad you are joining us. Yah we are definitely having fun out of it!

To convert kilometers to miles try this site.

http://www.teaching-english-in-japan...ion/kilometers

We are just getting out of Hopedale so join us over in the chat thread (see link in above message). See you there!

Misti

:wave: Ohhh....PICK ME! PICK ME! Thanks for the invite Lena! Would love to go for a long...long walk!....I live just 13 miles north of I-90 in South Dakota! Would love for all to stop in!

New Pedo and sneakers all ready....................Blyn:running:

Oh yay, oh yay, oh yay! Glad you are here, Blyn. And thanks for the invite for all to stop in when we go near your place. :) Head on over to the chat thread and join in!

Misti

I would love to join this group! I live outside Chicago, not too far from I-90! I set up an exercise challenge for the 300+ group (we count minutes of exercise), but I often walk on the treadmill and this sounds great. It also might motivate me to get a pedometer!

I used to live in Massachusetts and took I-90 (the Pike) all the time, and when I lived in Michigan, drove back home on it! So I'm familiar with the "actual" road from Boston to Chicago!

I'll post my miles on the miles thread!

Welcome Annie and Wyllen!!! Welcome aboard!

hi! I'm in East Texas so I'm walking in the south but would love to join ya'll. Hopefully I can add a few miles here and there.

I'd also love to join. I currently live in Iowa, but I use to live along I90 in Wisconsin. Fun, fun, fun!!