Join the step challenge

The rules:

• You can gain your steps or movement minutes by walking, running or other activities (read the challenge pack for plenty of ideas)
• Track your activity by counting minutes (at an average walking pace you’ll cover 6,000 steps in 60 minutes)
• You could also track your steps via an app (like Strava), Fitbit, phone or pedometer.  
• Join alone or as a team 
• Collect sponsorship on behalf of the Mayor’s Charitable Trust (registration no: 1145694)

The Mayor’s Charitable Trust is supporting Kingston Charitable Foundation and Voices of Hope as her charities of the Year.  Taking up the Step Challenge allows you to support them too.

5 alternatives to walking (+ Challenge Targets)

• Skipping - Target 1200 skips per day
• Cycling - Target 8km per day
• Dancing - Target 30 mins per day
• Aerobics - Target 30 mints per day
• Yoga - Target 30 mins per day

Activity Tracking for Users of Wheelchairs

Apple Watch users can track their fitness by updating to OS3, allowing personalised input for seat heights and wheel sizes

Fitbit Flex offers a general alternative, though lacking specific wheelchair fitness features, it tracks movement and logs them as steps

The Freewheel app and device fits to your wheelchair to provide data on acceleration, distance, incline, decline and speed

Walking event

You can also join the Mayor, Cllr Diane White, on Saturday 24th Feb at 9.30am alongside fellow fundraisers for a Fundraisers’ Together Walk.  Everyone taking part in the Challenge will be so close to completing their challenges by then so it will be a chance for the Mayor to say thank you and well done for stepping up to change local lives.  Refreshments will also be available at the Guildhall after approx 5173 steps.

To take part, grab your challenge pack and activity tracker now email: mayors.office@kingston.gov.uk by Wednesday 31st January 2024