Join in our weekly walking challenge for all walkers! This challenge will help us to share and learn from each other, and it will help us stay accountable and on-track with our goals. Come on in and join! We’ll help keep each other on track (pun intended)!

And, whether you are just beginning or if you have a graveyard of old walking shoes in your closet, you are welcome to join in. If you have a long-term goal to lose weight, or to walk in a marathon, or to improve your bone density or muscle strength, the challenge can help you get there! And, if you just want to walk for a bit of stress relief or to get outside and enjoy nature, we’re here for you, too. No matter what your walking objective, let’s all virtually walk together.

Here’s how it works: Choose your walking goal for the week. Whatever you want for your goal is fine. You can share your long-term goal or just post what you are trying to do just for this week.

Some sample weekly goals might be:

To walk outside with my kids twice this week.
To walk three days for 20 minutes each.
To walk four days for five minutes each.
To walk one mile a day for two days.
To walk 5,000 steps a day every day.
To walk 30 minutes a day every day.
To walk 12 miles this week.
Complete week three of a marathon walking training plan.
Treadmill four times for 2 miles, outside walk on Saturday.

Basically, your goals are your own, but usually you will want to include frequency (daily, twice a week, five times, every other day, etc.) and either time or distance or steps. Your choice. Everyone likes to monitor their own progress in different ways and that is fine. Do whatever works for you. The walking challenge is to help you challenge yourself and meet your own goals, whatever they might be.

So, join us in the forum under the “Walking Challenge” posts and share what you are doing. I will post a walking challenge topic for each week on Mondays, but if you get there before me, feel free to start it yourself! Making it a habit to post each week or even every day after you walk will help “keep you honest”. I know it helps me to write down my walks in my journal. It helps to recognize and reward my own good behavior. It is my hope that the forum posts will do that for all of us!

Just click here to get to the Walking Forum main page.