Walk with Your County or Organization

Walk Across Texas is a free program to help people start moving more and establish physical activity as a lifetime habit. Doing Walk Across Texas with people you know is a great way to help you keep going when you feel like quitting. To walk across the state in eight weeks, everyone on a team must walk almost 13 miles each week.

Walk Across Texas is not a walk-a-thon nor is it an event to raise money. While teams do compete to walk across the state first and/or to accumulate the most miles during the eight weeks, the main point is to get moving and keep moving after Walk Across Texas ends.

After Walk Across Texas ends, you may want to continue on walking by yourself to see how long it takes you to walk across the state all by yourself.

Here is a quick overview of how Walk Across Texas works for groups:

• Site managers at larger sites manage implementation by working with Extension agent and captains.
• Set dates for start and finish, Kick-Off, Mid-Way, and Recognition Events.
• Captain selected/volunteer.
• Teams of eight people walk for 8 weeks.
• Captains find 7 others for team.
• Starts with a Kick-Off Event.
• Captain registers team on-line.
• Captains and their team members walk for 8 weeks.
• Team members can e-mail, phone, or fax their mileage to team captain or designated person to enter the mileage on the website.
• Captains or their designate enter their team’s weekly mileage and/or pounds lost.
• Around the 4th week, may have a Don’t Give Up Now / Mid-Way Event.
• Captain enters Wrap-Up information.
• Concludes with a Recognition Event.
• Certificates of Recognition are given to participants.

Find out more about being a:

• Site Manager
• Team Captain
• Team Member