| 15 February
2008
On 2nd January the Cirkle team shook off their New Year’s
hangovers, clipped on their Fitbugs and began
their Step Challenge for 2008 to raise money
for the Whizz-Kidz charity. With an initial
high level of enthusiasm, we reached Paris by day four using
our ‘online virtual trainers’ to log our steps,
making it impossible for us to lose track.
On the 17th day, Cirkle had stepped through Brussels and
Frankfurt and arrived in Milan. We were heroes in our local
newspaper, the Bucks Advertiser, who ran
a story on our challenge along with a team picture which gave
the stragglers the motivation to pick up the pace. Additionally,
we received a very positive write up from the Fresh
Produce Journal, which applauded our aim and helped
to draw attention to our challenge and, more importantly,
the Whizz-Kidz charity.
By the end of January we had stomped through a further three
countries; Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Although slightly
behind schedule by about 20%, the team are committed to upping
their steps in February and have been spurred into gear by
generous donations from our clients and the media.
Cirkle will be teaming up with a personal trainer from a
local fitness studio once a week to raise their step count
with activities such as netball, spinning and jogging. Some
of us are more excited than others, but everyone will be making
a change in their schedule to incorporate an increase of steps
in some form. We are now only 37,626 steps from Romania and
hope to pass four more countries to be close to Dubai by the
end of February. With the upcoming month planned to be extremely
busy with publishing house tours and events from Schwartz,
Tropicana and Wilkinson Sword, the team are confident that
we can reach the targeted landmarks.
If you would like to make a donation please
click here to visit our Just Giving website.
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