Thursday, April 25, 2024
Can you walk across Texas?
Families, friends and co-workers are encouraged to organize teams to accumulate the equivalent of walking 832 miles - the distance across Texas.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service office in Hood County will host a Walk Across Texas! kickoff event from 5-7 p.m. Monday at the Hood County YMCA, 1475 James Road.
Dr. Mark Faries, Texas A&M AgriLife Family and Community Health Specialist and owner of Fitness Pudding, will speak at the program.
Smoothie samples, recipes, T-shirts for $15 and a Zumba instructor are included in the fun.
The Walk Across Texas! program encourages people to develop a habit of regular physical activity. Teams and individuals walk — or run, dance, garden, swim or do any other form of exercise — for an eight-week period.
Each 20 minutes of exercise counts as one mile. At the end of that time each team’s or person’s total mileage is added up.
A quick look at a map of Texas shows how far everybody would have gone if he or she had been walking in a straight line.
“You can walk together, individually, outside, at a mall, at a grocery store or at a gym — any way that fits your schedule and lifestyle,” said Kelli Brown, Family and Community Health Extension Agent.
“Keep track of your team’s miles to see if together you can go the equivalent of the 832 miles it would take to walk across Texas in eight weeks.”
Visit https://hood.agrilife.org/walkacross-texas/ to register for the program.
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