Steps to a Healthier Teller County and America On the Move a community pedometer program Making Wellness a Priority for all the Community • Steps to a Healthier Teller County • America On the Move • Chronic Disease Grant • Community - no more silos, please – School – Worksites – Community groups – Individuals and families America On the Move…
• The beginning…Colorado on the Move • Simple message – Walk 2,000 steps more a day – Improve nutrition • This keeps us from gaining 3 lbs./year • www.americaonthemove.org A walking program for Everyone!
The Flat 14ers Club • Homegrown • AOM inspired • In the shadow of Pikes Peak • Part of the Colorado culture • Membership is free! • If you can walk, you can do it. Getting Started… • Get a pedometer – $2.00 participation fee or – Free if you register with America On the Move • Register online www.americaonthemove.org • Find your average steps per day baseline • You are going to try to increase that baseline number by 2,000 steps/day each week you reach your goal • Now…what to do with all those steps? • What’s the goal? Program ready to go today! • Brochure for adult and students 5 – 12 • Worksite Roster Poster
Worksite: Date: America on the Move Group ID: • Peak Posters PEAK NAMES
# STEPS 1. Blanca Peak 30,000 2. Capital Peak 34,000 3. Castle Peak/ *Conundrum 28,000 Peak 4. Challenger Point 24,000 5. Crestone Needle 16,000 6. Crestone Peak 12,500 • AOM Conversion 7. Culebra Peak 14,000 8. Ellingwood Point 31,000 9. Grays Peak 15,000 10. Handies Peak 11,000 11. Humbolt Peak 14,250 12. Huron Peak 11,000 13. Kit Carson Peak 23,000 14. La Plata Peak 19,000 15. Little Bear Peak 26,000 16. Longs Peak 28,000 17. Maroon Peak/ *North 24,000 Charts Maroon Peak 18. Missouri Mountain 21,000 19. Mt. Antero 27,000 20. Mt. Belford 22,000 21. Mt. Bierstadt 24,000 22. Mt. Bross 28,000 23. Mt. Columbia 23,000 24. Mt. Democrat 8,000 25. Mt. Elbert 18,000 26. Mt. Eolus/ *North Eolus 36,000 27. Mt. Evans 28,000 28. Mt. Harvard 27,000 29. Mt. Lincoln/ *Mt. Cameron 11,000 • Develop Incentives 30. Mt. Lindsey 16,500 31. Mt. Massive 27,000 32. Mt. of the Holy Cross 23,000 33. Mt. Princeton 26,000 34. Mt. Shavano 22,500 35. Mt. Sherman 10,500 36. Mt. Sneffels 12,000 37. Mt. Wilson/ *El Diente 32,000 38. Mt. Yale 16,000 39. Pikes Peak 23,000 40. Pyramid Peak 13,500 41. Quandary Peak 13,500 • Set Kick-off Date 42. Redcloud Peak/Sunshine 18,000/ Peak 24,000 43. San Luis Peak 26,000 44. Snowmass Mountain 16,000 45. Sunlight Peak 34,000 46. Torreys Peak 15,000 47. Uncompahgre Peak 16,000
48. Wetterhorn Peak 14,000 49. Wilson Peak 32,000 50. Windom Peak 34,000
* Note: To be ranked, a peak must rise at least 300 feet above the saddle that connects it to the nearest 14er peak (if another exists nearby). This guideline has been in use in Colorado for some time. The following peaks are not ranked because they do not fit this criterion, but • Minimum is 100 day they are on this 14er list because they are named and recognized on USGS maps. Revised 4.3.08 challenge “Climb” the Colorado 14ers • Pick a date to start and tell someone • Pick a Peak • Reset your pedometer and start walking • Walk everywhere you can • When you have enough steps recorded on your pedometer to have “climbed” your selected peak and back, mark it completed • Choose your next peak and reset the pedometer Keep “Climbing” • Keep going until you have “climbed” all 54 peaks • Pick up you free Flat 14ers Club t-shirt when you turn in your completed record sheet at the TCPH offices in Divide.
We Can Help Jane Enger, Health Program Manager • office at TCPH in Divide • 687-6416 • [email protected]
Marilyn Bruce – School Health Coordinator • office at TCPH in Divide • 687-6416 • [email protected] “One step at a time is good walking.” W Chinese proverb