YOU DID IT! Congratulations, first and foremost, to every individual that participated in the 2009 URMC Stair Challenge. No matter how many stairs you climbed, you took part in an initiative to make our work environment a place where physical activity is encouraged and for this you should be proud!
Now, for those competitive ones, this is the part you're interested in...the RESULTS. For week 4, we'd like to congratulate the "Well U Hotsteppers" for climbing the most floors (630 per person WHOA)! Must have been running up to the 8th floor during lunch break! The most improved team for week 4 was the "Stairwell Shakers", with an increase of 191 floors. Go Shakers!
We loved these quotes from week 4:
"Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this challenge. Our group is going to start a new challenge next week counting steps. We are going to split our group into two teams and compete against each other!"
"Most of our team will keep going with climbing stairs after this last week, just not at this highly competitive level!"
"We're very tired and very busy this week but somehow managed to get in our flights!"
"I plan to keep doing stairs just because - it's shaping my legs"
"We found out that we like climbing flights of stairs. It is great exercise, and really builds the legs. We will continue to do so on a weekly basis. Thanks!
"I am actually climbing stairs on purpose now, and may continue. Good job! I think your program (and signs like "sneak exercise into your day, take the stairs") was successful. Thanks!"
Our favorite thing about these quotes is that they emphasize that many of you plan to continue taking the stairs and helping to create a culture where taking the stairs is encouraged in the hospital.As always, For more updates, quotes, and a listing of top tens for week 4 and entire challenge totals to see how your team ranked, visit http://urmcstairs.blogspot.com.
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for, the 2009 Stair Challenge FINAL RESULTS:
The gold, silver, and bronze finalists are as follows in floors climbed since the beginning of the challenge;
1. AND we're a MESS1755
2. Mighty Flightys1611
3. Well U Hot Steppers1587
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Climb high, step proud,
The 2009 Stair Challenge Committee
Week 4 Top 10 Teams
Team Name Average Per Person
Well U hotsteppers 630
Stairwell Shakers 560
Mighty Flightys 518
AND we're a MESS 500
Med Everest 427
pharmacy two 362
Wii Not Fit 300
phramacy one 295
Stair Pushers 262
WDIT 242
Week 4 Most Improved Teams
Team # of Floors of Improvement
1. Stairwell Shakers 191
2. Well U Hot Steppers 153
3. Cellar Dwellars 133
4. Med Everest 93
5. WDIT 86
6. Pharmacy 2 86
7. Mighty Flightys 73
8. Stair Pushers 34
9. Pharmacy 1 23
10. NOVADS 18
Week 4 Team Totals – All Teams
Team Name Average Per Person
Well U hotsteppers 630
Stairwell Shakers 560
Mighty Flightys 518
AND we're a MESS 500
Med Everest 427
pharmacy two 362
Wii Not Fit 300
phramacy one 295
Stair Pushers 262
WDIT 242
banana nut muffin tops 241
cinnamon streusel muffin tops 233
pharmacy two 224
Pink Post It's 191
cellar dwellars 167
Crazy Lemurs 148
Neuronerds 129
NOVADS 128
The Elevators, NOT! 127
SOBs 123
Steppin Wolves 122
Huff & Puffers 114
MRBXcellence 113
Patient Account Steppers 113
Pediatric Pedestrians 109
thoracic park II 100
Doreen DeGray 98
Neonatology Crazy Climbers 95
Madagascars 89
Interpreters in Motion 81
thoracic I 68
basement critters 67
corporate climbers 67
darcie ikeler 59
SmithandLeinbach 55
5-36 Team B 54
634 StairMasters 53
The OEM Steppers 1 52
Transplant Trotters 50
The OEM Steppers 2 40
Stair Masters 39
Buns of Steel 25
The Stream Team 23
The Commitments 20
Stair Challenge Final Tally (# of Floors per Person Each Week)
Team Name 4 WEEK TOTALS
1. AND we're a MESS 1755
2. Mighty Flightys 1611
3. Well U Hot Steppers 1587
4. Med Everest 1371
5. Stairwell Shakers 1361
6. pharmacy two 1324
7. pharmacy one 1317
8. Banana Nut Muffin Tops 975
9. Pink Post its 909
10. Wii Not Fit 894
Cinnamon Streusel Muffin Tops 829
wdit 779
Crazy Lemurs 584
SOBs 572
NeuroNerds 561
Corporate Climbers 514
Madagascars 470
Patient Account Steppers 439
Steppin' Wolves 435
Pediatric Pedestrians 418
Stair Pushers 404
NOVADS 399
Huff & Puffers 379
The Elevators, NOT! 375
The Step Sistaz 374
MRBXcellence 369
BASEMENT CRITTERS 355
West Wing Warriors 353
Bug Stompers 341
Neonatology Crazy Climbers 331
THORACIC PARK II 294
CELLAR DWELLERS 286
Arrythmia 273
Interpreters in Motion 252
Transplant Trotters 241
The OEM Steppers 1 238
urojets 1 209
THORACIC PARK I 205
Hot Steppers 203
Elevator Trust Issues, Inc. 191
SmithandLeinbach 184
The OEM Steppers 2 183
5-36 Team B 176
Stairmasters (63400) 155
634 StairMasters 155
The Stream Team 142
Clef Climbers 141
CAP Climbers 123
NICU Steppers 120
The Commitments 110
5-3600 A 106
Thigh Masters 103
in step 101
The OU1 Get's it Done Gang #2 100
Psych Steppers 91
The Ou1 Get's it Done Gang 89
cytosneakers 87
Systems go up and down 84
Baby Steps 81
The Glial Girls 70
Simon Stair Wells 65
urojets 2 47
A step above the rest. 32
5-3600 A 27
Buns of Steel 25
Stair Crazy 8
Week 3 of the 2009 Stair Challenge is now complete. As a group, you have climbed over 157,000 floors since the beginning of the challenge – woohoo! You're 3/4 of the way up the mountain - now is the time to give it all you've got!
Congrats to team "AND we're a MESS" for climbing the most flights (509 per person) this week! And, the team that has improved most from week 2 to week 3 is "Well U Hot Steppers" with an improvement of 225 flights/person! Their total was 477 for week three. Your prizes will be delivered to you this week.
These teams' encouragement of fellow members, enthusiasm, and humor are what help to make this challenge a hospital wide success. Keep it UP!
For more updates, quotes, and a listing of the top ten total and top ten most improved teams from week 3, visit http://urmcstairs.blogspot.com
Best of luck with week FOUR...the final week of the 2009 stair challenge!! Remember: report your week 4 tallies by Saturday, March 28th at 12pm. It's the final countdown...the teams are neck-in-neck, this could be anyone's game, folks!
Team (Average Floors/Person)
AND we're a MESS 509
Well U Hot Steppers 477
Mighty Flightys 445
Stairwell Shakers 370
Med Everest 333
Cinnamon Streusel Muffin Tops 293
Wii Not Fit 287
Pharmacy 2 276
Pharmacy 1 272
Banana Nut Muffin Tops 259
corporate climbers 237
Stair Pushers 228
Pink Post It's 206
Neuronerds 192
Crazy Lemurs 159
wdit 155
Urojets 1 152
Huff & Puffers 150
Steppin' Wolves 123
The Elevators, NOT! 117
Patient Account Steppers 116
SOBs 112
NOVADS 109
Madagascars 109
MRBXcellence 106
Pediatric Pedestrians 105
Bug Stompers 95
Neonatology Crazy Climbers 83
Interpreters in Motion 74
Thoracic Park II 71
SmithandLeinbach 71
Transplant Trotters 67
Basement Critters 56
Thoracic Park I 54
634 StairMasters 52
The OEM Steppers 1 44
Clef Climbers 43
Cellar Dwellers 34
Cytosneakers 33
Stair Masters 33
The OEM Steppers 2 32
The Stream Team 31
CAP Climbers 31
Stair Crazy 29
The Commitments 25
In Step 21
NICU Steppers 20
Psych Steppers 18
The Glial Girls 4
1. One team member's calves have increased enormously and show true definition in her heels, just in time for the ball she's attending Friday night!
2.Stairs are getting easier. The first week, 9 flights seemed like a MOUNTAIN! Now anything less than 9 feels downright wimpy!
3. On Friday afternoon we all kept saying lets do one more and we cheered each other on and kept going more and more I’m so proud of my team!!!
4. It's March Madness!
5. It's hard transporting patients up the stairs.
Top 10 Teams (Average Floors/Person)
AND we're a MESS 509
Well U Hot Steppers 477
Mighty Flightys 445
Stairwell Shakers 370
Med Everest 333
Cinnamon Streusel Muffin Tops 293
Wii Not Fit 287
Pharmacy 2 276
Pharmacy 1 272
Banana Nut Muffin Tops 259
Top 10 Most Improved Teams -- Improvement Week 2 to Week 3 (floors per person)
Well U Hot Steppers 225
Stairwell Shakers 153
Cinnamon Streusel Muffin Tops 139
Wii Not Fit 115
corporate climbers 103
The Elevators, NOT! 99
urojets 1 95
AND we're a MESS 94
Mighty Flightys 79
Neuronerds 67
| StairMasters | 20 |
| cytosneakers | 28 |
| 5-3600 A | 32 |
| NICU Steppers | 32 |
| thoracic park I | 33 |
| Psych Steppers | 33 |
| SmithandLeinbach | 39 |
| The Commitments | 40 |
| urojets 2 | 41 |
| CELLAR DWELLARS | 41 |
| The Stream Team | 44 |
| Simon Stairwells | 44 |
| OU1 Gets it Done Group 2 | 46 |
| CAP Climbers | 46 |
| 53600 Team B | 50 |
| thoracic park II | 50 |
| Clef Climbers | 51 |
| Transplant Trotters | 53 |
| Interpreters in Motion | 53 |
| Baby Steps | 54 |
| The OEM Steppers 2 | 56 |
| The OU1 Get's it Done Group | 56 |
| urojets 1 | 57 |
| in step | 68 |
| The OEM Steppers 1 | 68 |
| NICU Steppers | 74 |
| Systems go up and down | 79 |
| Novads | 83 |
| Bug Stompers | 85 |
| Neonatology Crazy Climbers | 87 |
| The Hot Steppers | 94 |
| Elevator Trust Issues, Inc. | 95 |
| steppin' Wolves | 95 |
| MRBXcellence | 103 |
| Pediatric Pedestrians | 103 |
| Neuronerds | 124 |
The Elevators, NOT Patient Account Steppers | 124 131 |
| Madagascars | 133 |
| Corporate Climbers | 133 |
| Crazy Lemurs | 135 |
| basement critters | 152 |
| Arrythmia | 153 |
| Cinnamon Streuesl Muffin Tops | 154 |
| THE STEP SISTAZ | 163 |
| West Wing Warriors | 169 |
| Wii Not Fit | 172 |
| SOBs | 205 |
| Stairwell Shakers | 216 |
| wdit | 228 |
| Stair Pushers | 230 |
| Banana Nut Muffin Tops | 239 |
| Pink Post It's | 251 |
| Well U Hot Steppers | 253 |
| Mighty Flightys | 367 |
| Med Everest | 386 |
| pharmacy one | 395 |
| pharmacy two | 397 |
| AND we're a MESS | 415 |
- We noticed that there are more people in the stairwell than normal-- even at 2am!
- We are slowly improving!
- Some of us were sick but we still tried our best, while others pulled us through and increased our totals....
- We had a contest to see who could climb over 100 floors first. The winner was our colleague, Bill McMullen! Go Bill!
- My calves each gained an inch of girth.
- The second week was much easier for our team in terms of breathing and leg soreness. We're getting in shape!
- After seeing our overall rank from last week, each of our team member increased their efforts. Also two of our most active members who were out of town the previous week returned this week and helped the team more than double its tally for the week.
- We had a couple of people out sick but still improved our total from last week. A couple of team members increased their steps to beat their last week's total.
Dear Stair Challenge Leaders & Participants,
Week 2 of the 2009 Stair Challenge is now complete. It has been another fabulous week of climbing, with over 105,000 flights climbed since the beginning of the challenge – give yourselves a pat on the back!
Congrats to team “AND we're a MESS” for climbing the most flights (415 per person) last week! This is a new weekly high, beating last week's 355 flights/person. And, the team that has improved most from week 1 to week 2 is .... (drumroll, please) ... "Med Everest" with 162 flights/person! Your prizes will be delivered to you this week.
For more updates, quotes, and a listing of the top ten total and most improved teams from week 2, visit http://urmcstairs.blogspot.com
Best of luck with week THREE. Please report your week 3 tallies by Saturday, March 21st at 12pm. It's any team's game next week...work those calves, quads, and glutes!
The 2009 Stair Challenge Committee
Week 2: Most Improved: Top Ten Teams (# of floors/person IMPROVEMENT)
- Med Everest +162
- Pharmacy 2 +109
- Mighty Flightys +86
- Stair Pushers +84
- AND We’re a Mess +83
- WDIT +74
- Systems Go Up and Down +73
- Basement Critters +72
- SOB’s +71
- In Step +57
Week 2: Top Ten Teams (# of floors/person)
| 1 | AND we're a MESS | 415 |
| 2 | Pharmacy Two | 397 |
| 3 | Pharmacy One | 395 |
| 4 | Med Everest | 386 |
| 5 | Mighty Flightys | 367 |
| 6 | Well U Hot Steppers | 253 |
| 7 | Pink Post It's | 251 |
| 8 | Banana Nut Muffin Tops | 239 |
| 9 | Stair Pushers | 230 |
| 10 | WDIT | 228 |
Dear Stair Challenge Participants,
Congratulations on completing your first week of the 2009 Stair Challenge! It’s been a fantastic week, with over 50,000 flights of stairs climbed – way to go everyone!
Congrats to team “Pharmacy One” for climbing the most flights (355 per person!) last week! Your prizes will be delivered to you this week.
Also, please note that due to feedback, we have extended the date and time of the weekly reporting deadline to Saturdays at 12pm. Please submit your team’s weekly tallies by this new date and time.
Click here for overall results from week ONE.
Best of luck with week TWO. The competition is looking fierce…. Keep it UP, climbers!
The 2009 Stair Challenge Committee
1. “One team member started out the week with two days of ZERO, but ended the week with 100 flights! We're very proud of her...” – Med Everest
2. “It is amazing how this competition has motivated our team. We are also doing a Biggest Loser competition with another group in our office. It will be interesting to see how all these floors help us next week during the weigh in!” – Stairwell Shakers
3. “Some team member are complaining of calf pain ” – West Wing Warriors
4. “I told my team mates I was going to place chocolate bars on the 3rd floor of the building, it's the only way I can get them to walk up to the 3rd floor, kidding!” – Stair Pushers
5. “We huffed and we puffed but we made it through the week.” – Huff & Puffers
6. “Going down uses a different set of muscles and is it's own kind of exercise.” – Psych Steppers
7. “The incentive of this challenge is great! I notice that I make a point of taking the stairs, where I would have taken the elevator a week ago! Thank you!” – Interpreters in Motion
8. “Stair climbing sounds easier than it actually is !!! However, despite our aches we are ready to tackle the stairs again next week.” – The Stream Team
9. “We are becoming aware that we have more opportunity to use the stairs than we realized.” – CAP Climbers
10. “One member of our team did 150 in one session, finishing the final flight backwards!” – Well U Hot Steppers
An astute Stair Climber noticed that the "leave a comment feature" wasn't working. Well, that should be fixed now! So post away.
We'd love to hear from you.
(Don't forget to submit first week totals by tomorrow evening 8pm!)
Welcome to the Challenge!
Record turnout this year - 75 teams with 583 participants.
Here's what you can expect on this website:
- Team highlights - write to us, tell us your story, and we'll put you on the blog! Pictures of your favorite stairwell? Your team not taking the elevator? Why you decided to join the challenge? We'd love to hear from you.
- Weekly Results - check here every Monday for last week's results! Due to space restrictions, we'll be posting the top climbers outside the House of Six Nations Cafeteria as well.
- Answers - to frequently asked questions.
Q: How do I track my team's floors?
A: Different strategies work for different teams. Some team leaders have team members report in daily, or at the end of the week, either electronically or on paper.
Members can keep track on a card kept in their pocket, or on a central sheet kept by the team leader. Or they can email in their daily or weekly totals. Do what works for your team!
All we need is the final weekly sum total of all the floors of stairs climbed by your team for that week. (Saturday through Friday, only stairs at work) Send us this number by the end of the day Friday by using the form you'll get in the Thursday email.
How does your team keep track? Write a comment below to share with the other teams! Maybe you have a system that works that a new team would love to try!
Q. How do I report my team's weekly results?
A. Reporting is OPEN for Week 2. Team Leaders - look for the email each Thursday from URMCstairchallenge@gmail.com. It will have a form in it to report your team's stair tally. Submit it by 12 NOON on Saturday March 13! It is also available here on this website.
The form will ask for the following information:
- Team Name
- Password (this is just to make sure your rival team doesn't report your results for you...)
- Number of team members
- Total number of floors that week (add up all the floors your team climbed for the week)
Click 'submit' and that's it!
For ideas on how to keep track of your team's stairs for the week, check this out.
Take a bold first step in healthier living by gathering your friends and co-workers for the annual University of Rochester Medical Center-wide Stair Challenge, running Monday, Mar. 2 through Friday, Mar. 27.
You’ll count your flights daily and report them to your team leader, competing against other groups for prizes. Each week, results will be posted outside each of the University’s three eateries, and will be emailed to team leaders.
Check out the information below, and make your team!
Register by filling out the form below by Friday, Feb. 27.
- Dates:
- Sign up by February 27
- Challenge: February 28-March 27
- Week 1: February 28 - March 6
- Week 2: March 7-13
- Week 3: March 14-20
- Week 4: March 21-27
- Teams
- 2-10 members
- Open to any URMC staff, students, and volunteers.
- Teams must have a Team Leader with email access.
- Register
- By February 27 at 3:30pm
- Pick a team name and a team leader (someone with email access!)
- Online at: www.URMCstairs.blogspot.com
- Or via paper form at the Food and Nutrition Office (across from the House of Six Nations Cafeteria)
- Points
- Counting
- Count floors of stairs climbed each day.
- Climb up or down the stairs*
- Only stairs at work count
- Example: taking the stairs from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor = 2 floors
- Reporting
- Team members: report individual weekly total to Team Leader.
- Team Leaders: report weekly team total via email form.
- Counting
- Prizes
- Weekly Prizes:
- Weekly winner is based on each team’s average number of floors per person.
- Most improved team from week to week.
- Grand Prizes:
- Team that climbs the most stairs.
- Most improved team overall.
- Others!
- Weekly Prizes:
Questions? email URMCstairchallenge@gmail.com
Questions?
Email: URMCStairChallenge@gmail.com
One of the Dietetic Interns will get back to you in no time!