From Monday, April 4th through Sunday, May 15th, 52 employees at Tomlinson Industries took part in the 6-week Step to IT! step challenge. Each participant was given a pedometer to track their daily steps throughout the competition. The winning team, comprised of Matt Hric, Bob Sacha, Cheryl Derryberry, and Jeff Howard, took a total of 3,088,551 steps and Matt Hric from Tomlinson’s Inspection department was the overall winner with 954,757 total steps. A total of 24,164,471 steps were taken by all participants from Week 1 to Week 6 of the challenge.
The goal of Tomlinson’s Step to IT! challenge was to promote physical activity, to improve the health and well-being of employees, and to help participants work their way to 10,000 steps (5 miles) per day. Over the course of the challenge, 60% of participants averaged more than 10,000 daily steps, with 15% averaging more than 15,000 daily steps.
