BHSF walk 14,600 miles to Buenos Aires and back

Staff at BHSF in Birmingham have walked to Buenos Aires and back in a 16-week challenge without leaving the country.

 

Three teams involving 21 employees from the national supplier of health and employee benefits took part, using pedometers supplied by the organisers.

 

They completed a total of 14,600 miles in a Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) called Get the World Moving organised on the internet.  The winning BHSF team, Footsore and Weary, finished 600^th out of 14,000 teams world-wide with an average daily step count of 17,676.

 

The three top walkers from BHSF were Christina Goodall, Julie Weavin and Dale Washington.

 

The global winning team was Nestle from Germany, who had an average step count of over 35,000 and just beat a Cadbury team from the UK.

 

The idea of the GCC is to get people fit. And for every entrant an organisation enrolls, a youngster is recruited to the Global Children’s Challenge in an effort to cut child obesity. Entrants pay £343 (£49 each) for a team of seven for which they receive two pedometers and a walking pack.

 

A new Global Corporate Challenge is being arranged for next April and details are on www.gettheworldmoving.com

 

Chief executive Peter Maskell took part in the challenge and said: “It was great fun and a rewarding corporate challenge that included team building and getting fit.”