Perry Memorial Hospital Walking Challenge

Hello and welcome to the Perry Memorial Hospital Walking Challenge website. The purpose of this website is to help facilitate and organize hospital-wide and community-wide events and to track the associated pedometer data.

To participate in an event you will need to have and wear a pedometer for the duration of the event, and create a user account using this website. You will be expected to reset your pedometer step count to zero each morning, and record the total steps taken at the end of each day.

Once you create a user account, you will be able to see a list of planned events (past, present, and future), enter your daily step counts from your pedometer, and create or join teams. Team averages, as well as individual standings (top 25) will show up under each event.

Each person participating must create their own account. If 2 or more people share an account, it will skew the results and give an unfair advantage.

Teams are organized per event. To create or join a team, go to the event list, select your event, and select a team to join, or create a new team. Team standings are averaged (team total steps divided by the number of team members). A larger team will not necessarily have an advantage over a smaller team.

The following rules are enforced by this website:

• You can only be a member of one team at a time for each event. Joining a team, however, is not required, as you can participate individually regardless of team membership. If you are currently a member of a team, and you choose to join another team, you will be automatically removed from your existing team.
• You can only enter step counts for days up to and including the current day.
• The deadline for entering step counts is 11:59 pm on November 10, 2008. Once the deadline to enter step counts has passed for an event, you will not be able to enter any additional step count data for that event.