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.