The Trusted Adviser
September 2021 | Volume 14 · Number 7

NEWS:

ATG's Summer 2021 Step Challenge

To encourage healthy choices and camaraderie for our team, ATG brought back its Step Challenge. Eleven teams of four began counting steps at the start of August, check out their results!

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AUGUST 2021 STEP CHALLENGE RESULTS

 

Steps Taken:
8/2-8  8/9-15  8/16-22  8/23-29 FINAL TOTALS
2,811,639 
(1,252.90 miles) 
2,984,062 
(1,329.74 miles) 
2,968,514 
(1,322.81 miles) 
2,848,337 
(1,269.26 miles) 
11,612,552 
(5,174.71 miles) 

The grand total is more than enough to walk to the North Pole and back from Chicago, as the crow flies. Better yet, to Mexico City – lots more to do there. Congratulations to all our walkers!

Step Challenge Photo Gallery

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Peter Birnbaum, Team Agony of Da Feet: There are many ways to get your steps in...
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... slipping counts too!
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Dawn Efflandt, Team Agony of Da Feet: "My favorite walking path."
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Elaine Oldham, Team Agony of Da Feet: "On my Saturday walk, I ran into these superheroes, out in honor of Free Comic Book Day."  (Courtesy of Secret Identity, Heroes with a Mission.)
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Amber Burton, Team Pedominators: "As many as 40 deer cross the walk path daily, from does to fawns to the occasional buck. They are so used to people they will often come within a couple feet of you."
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Peter Birnbaum, Team Agony of Da Feet: "Taken at 4 a.m. at the top of Mauna Kea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii." (Kudos for getting up that early!)
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Mary Beth McCarthy, Team Cake Walk: "I am a fan of ATG —and of my ATG fan. I walk every day. I just can’t seem to remember to put the two together."
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Bob Dorsey, Team Happy Feet: Bob and his walking partner bring the ATG fan to keep cool as they up their step count.
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Kristine Spalliero, Team Cake Walk: A trail sign from vacation walks in Hayward, Wis.
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Kristine Spalliero, Team Cake Walk: While on a vacation walk, Kristine spotted this turtle sunning itself on the shoreline of the beautiful Chippawa Flowage, Hayward, Wis.
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Dawn Efflandt, Team Agony of Da Feet: "Who else has a gecko for a Step Challenge partner?"
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Elaine Oldham, Team Agony of Da Feet: Found unexpected murals on her walk. There's so much hidden art in Champaign.
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Dave Landgraf, Team Like Fun Only Different: A spectacular backdrop to his Monday night walk.
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Deb Feinen (The Struts ) and Traci Nally (Walk on the Wild Siders) showing off their ATG fans as they cross a bridge in Robeson Meadows West, Champaign.
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Suzy Shaw, Team Like Fun Only Different: This field is across from her house so it's the first thing she sees when she heads out for her walks.
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Way passed knee-high now.
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Elaine Oldham, Team Agony of Da Feet: She saw this through a window on her Saturday walk. A vast improvement on the hockey games of her childhood.
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Melissa Novotny, Team Pedominators: Some of the views she enjoyed during her Step Challenge walks.

[Last update: 9-15-21]

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