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1857 people on 161 teams have walked a total of 17,849 miles (averaging 9.6 miles each)
0.7 trips around the world
0.7 trips around the world
Resources and Tools
**Getting Started!-how to gather people, start a team, and track your miles
**Resources for Offline Members and Youth Teams-Printable Activity Tracking Forms, permission slips, parent letters and more
**General Health and Wellness Resources-resources and educational tools about safety, nutrition, and physical activity
**Local SF Health and Wellness Resources-find out what spaces, events and businesses in your neighborhood can help keep you physically active and in good health
**Resources for Offline Members and Youth Teams-Printable Activity Tracking Forms, permission slips, parent letters and more
**General Health and Wellness Resources-resources and educational tools about safety, nutrition, and physical activity
**Local SF Health and Wellness Resources-find out what spaces, events and businesses in your neighborhood can help keep you physically active and in good health
Getting Started!
10 Simple Steps to Health!
A printable explaination of the Walking Challenge and how to participate
Planning Your Personal Mileage Goal
Recommendations for how much physical activity you should have, based on your age. From the CA Center for Physical Activity.
Incentives and Motivational Tools for Teams
How Shape Up will support your team and how YOU can support your team
Team Leader Tips for Motivation and Creative Activity
Ideas of things you can do with your team and ways to keep them motivated.
Starting a Walking Group
Tips to get your team organized and active from the Mayo Clinic
Choosing and Purchasing a Pedometer
A consumer reports guide to pedometers. Featuring the best pedometers in multiple categories, what to look for in a pedometer, etc.
Pedometer Training
Learn how to properly program and use your pedometer
Resources for Offline Members and Youth Teams
GROUP Activity Tracking Form
A form you can print out to track activity when you are not near a computer. This is very useful for team leaders who are
logging the miles for several members of their team.
INDIVIDUAL Activity Tracking Form
A printable form for OFFLINE TEAM MEMBERS (without regular computer access) to track activity. This can then be submitted to the Team Leader to enter online.
Team Leader Tips for Motivation and Creative Activity for SCHOOL/AFTERSCHOOL TEAMS
Ideas of things you can do with your team and ways to keep them motivated.
Informational Sheet for TEACHERS and AFTERSCHOOL PROVIDERS (FAQs)
An info sheet to distribute to potential leaders of youth teams explaining the program.
Letter to Parent
If your organization has a youth team, feel free to copy this and send it to parents to keep them informed. Spanish version coming soon.
Parent Permission Form
If you are developing a youth team, these can be adapted for your use. Chinese and Spanish versions coming soon.
California Coastline Lesson
use this Powerpoint presentation to integrate the Walking Challenge into classroom lessons about CA geography, history, animals, and more. Please note that this document is a large file (3 megabytes)
General Health and Wellness Resources
A Walk A Day: Benefits from American Counsel on Exercise
Why it's important to be active every day and how to get the most from your activity.
Walking Tips From Mark Fenton
Author of Pedometer Walking, contributor to Walking Magazine, and host of PBS's America Walks
Warm Up Exercises
Make sure to warm up before any kind of exercise
Why Be Active?
Why Eat Healthy?
Sourcing and Serving Sustainable Healthy Food
Map Your Walks
Use MapMyRun.com to see how far you walked
Local SF Health and Wellness Resources
Shape Up SF
Local Resources and Research from the City's coalition on health and wellness
SF Walking Tours
FREE walking tours of various neighborhoods in SF
City Walks San Francisco
5 Sample walking routes from this fantastic deck of 50 different city walks, published by Chronicle Books.
Livable Streets
Working for pedestrian safety in SF
Walk SF
San Francisco's Pedestrian Advocacy Organization
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
SF MTA Bicycle Safety
Sports Basement
free classes and all the gear you need for active living
SFUSD School Health Program Department
SF Rec & Park
Run4Life
Playworks (formerly Sports4Kids)
SF Food Systems