Lake Tranquility 50K, PR at Magic City Half and 5K fun

How tranquil is running 50K?  That's 10 times the 5K that the average weekend athlete aspires to complete.  Still confused?  Here is the simple answer 50K = 31.0686 miles.  Latta Johnston completed that distance to take him to the top of the individual leaderboard for week #13 of the PPC.  Erin Chelewski also had a great week 13.  She PR'd the Magic City Half coming in a close second to Latta's big week.  Several of our employees finished 5K's alongside the Girls On The Run team.

PPC WK 13 WINNER IS HBOE

This week HBOE squeaked out a one point victory over the Owls. 

Richard Simmons at HMSFest

Richard Simmons has been out of the headlines for a while, but finally surfaced for a guest appearance at HMS.  Thanks to Matt Kiser for making this happen.  It is truly a special "MOVEMENT MINUTE"!  

2015 RUNNER'S WORLD STREAK

#RWRunStreak

#hwdmoves

We are bringing back the "Streakers".  Run one mile every day starting on Thanksgiving and continuing through New Year's Day.  That's 37 consecutive days of running at least one mile.  Up for the challenge?  Read about it here.  If you join this challenge and complete this challenge you will earn 2 additional points per week of successful streaking AND this counts as an event toward The Movement Medal.  I'll place a special tracker on the Patriot Point Challenge for accountability.  Participants are also encouraged to use the hashtags #RWRunStreak and #hwdmoves to join other participants worldwide!  

PPC UPDATE

Big Scoreboard after 12 weeks.

1st place SCES 179 points

2nd place HMS 177 points

3rd place HBOE 176 points

4th place HHS 167 points

5th place EES 165 points

6th place HKES 107 points

POST THOSE POINTS

Big win for HBOE and Did you learn a lesson?

HBOE WINS THE WEEK

Congratulations are in order for Team HBOE.  The admin team crushed the competition this week with a big win.  

Lesson Learned

It's been a tough couple of weeks for me.  

I lost my father after his 9-month battle with COPD.  

Maybe it's because Dad's mom, my grandmother was a teacher, but one of his favorite quotes was, "Did you learn a lesson?" Anytime I failed or suffered a loss- he always included, "Did you learn a lesson?" During my basketball career as a player and coach I suffered lots of losses, but my toughest loss occured when I held my dad's hand as he took his last breath.  He taught me a critical lesson during the final months of his life, so please allow me to share this lesson with you.  

1. The most important things in life are friends and family.
2. Work, your career,  your profession is simply that.. but the people you interact with at work become some of your best friends so be sure to recognize that on a regular basis.
3. Try hard to win, no matter what you are up against but be sure to thank those people who are there to support you and help you along the way.  NOTHING is really accomplished alone, it takes a team to win.

Thank you HCS family for being such an amazing group of people.  It's truly an honor to be a Patriot.

Keep Moving.

9,419 MILES, Genie=473,1 Point Win.

CLICK HERE FOR FINAL LEADERBOARD

The month of October included some "high stepping" for our employees.  As a group HCS Walktober traveled 9,419 miles!  Genie Christian won the Walktober Challenge covering the greatest distance with a record-breaking perfomance of 473 miles.  

Check out the top 5 finishers:

Genie Christian- SCES:  946, 760 steps.  473 miles
Eric Swope-         HMS:   675, 136 steps.  338 miles
Rebecca Smith-   SCES:  576, 098 steps.  288 miles
Lauren Luckie-   SCES:  524, 511 steps.  262 miles
Paul Harbin-       HHS:    471,807 steps.   236 miles 

SHADES CAHABA WINS THE WEEK

  The Owls squeaked out a 1 point victory snatching the trophy from HMS.  

Keep Moving..

Mr. Pearson Takes One for Team HMS

TEAM HMS WINS WEEK

Mr. Pearson WINS "Best Movement Blog Episode EVER"

Three things:   

1.  I love his enthusiasm.  
2.  He is incredibly agile for keeping the trophy safe. 
3.  I'm so glad he is ok!

WALKTOBER UPDATE

PLEASE BE SURE TO POST YOUR FINAL STEP ENTRY FOR THE WALKTOBER CHALLENGE.  THE CHALLENGE ENDED AT MIDNIGHT ON HALLOWEEN.  I'LL ANNOUNCE THE WINNER IN NEXT WEEK'S MOVEMENT BLOG UPDATE.  

KEEP MOVING!!