Adios Week Three! Yippee 108,301.74 miles so far! 39

teams have made it . Week five here we come!

Welcome to Week 3 Walk Across Texas 2018

Important Dates–at-a-Glance

Celebrating 21 Years of WAT Brazos County

T e x a s A & M A g r i L i f e E x t e n s i o n

Brazos County Walk Across Texas 2018

March 8, 2018

WAT dates—February 10- April 6, 2018 Week 1: February 10-16, 2018 Week 2: February 17-February 23, 2018 Week 3: February 24-March 2, 2018 Week 4: March 3-9, 2018 Recharge Event, March 8, 2018; Wolf Pen Creek (Pictures will be posted in next newsletter)

Week 5: March 10-16, 2018 Week 6: March 17-23, 2018 Week 7: March 24-30, 2018 Week 8: March 31-April 6, 2018 Last day to enter miles and wrap up forms—April 13, 2018

Solo Walkers The 833 Miles or More Club

Soloist Gail 181.08 Melanie 164.66 Bill 150.01 Cynthia 127.02 Zackary 120.00 Emily 97.47 Deyanira 78.24 Shannon 73.42 Cheri 3.00 Susan 42.00 Terrell 26.00 Debbie 21.49 martha 18.00 ANGIE 16.78

833 Miles or More Club "There’s no BS, U, in these shoes!" 8 2 Much Bunch 979 Walkie Talkies A Walk to Remember CATs Chicks with Kicks Cirque de Sore Legs Crazy 8 CVM Busy Bees Heart And Sole Holy Walkamole Holy Walkamolies #1 IGY6 In A Walka Da Vida Kiss My Asphalt LAW AND ORDER SPECIAL FIT-NESS UNIT Not Fast Just Furious Off Like a Kilt

On your Left Powerhouse Team PPRI Walkers RELLIS RAMBLERS Seven Groovy Chicks & an Old Dude Shes Got Legs Shut Up And Walk With Me Sim Sinners Small Animal Dream Team Sole Patrol Sole Train Step Potential Steppers in the Name of Love Take a Walk on the Mild Side Team Grit The Dogs Are Barking The Wanderers Walk Force 1 Walking our Asphalt Your Pace or Mine

"There’s no BS, U, in these shoes!" 1 STEP FORWARD 2 STEPS BACK 3 Dean Soup 7 Deadly Shins 8 2 Much Bunch 979 Walkie Talkies A Team A Walk to Remember A Walking We Will Go! AABS Above And Beyond Strides ALL EAHRs 2018 APCC Theme Team ARCH Marchers ARCHI 8 Are We There Yet Beast Mode Recsters Beckys Toddling Troop Benchletes Benchlikins Beutel Beauties Beutel Strudels Blue Team Bluebonnet Bunch Brazos County 911 Brazos County Walking Warriors Bryan ISD TSC Team A Bryan ISD TSC Team B Bryan ISD TSC Team C BTHO Walking Bush School Office of Energetic Exercisers Bushwalkers BUSI Walk Implementers Business As Usual Catholic Charities CATs CEDP Movers and Shakers CEOS Chemistry Staffers Chicks with Kicks Chocolate Walkers Christopher We Be Walken! Cirque de Sore Legs CLRC Ironmanikins CONquerors CONtinual Motion Crazy 8 CS Squares Team One CS Squares Team Two CVM Busy Bees DARS Detour de Arlington Devastating Divas Diamonds in the rough Division of ReSOREch Duces Tecum Dynacisers 2018 Easier Said Than Run Elliott Big Hat EOTC Clan Ewok in the Park

Family Fitness Feud Fit for Duty Flab U Less 8 Fleet feet FUMC FTLPlus Heart And Sole Holy Walkamole Holy Walkamolies Holy Walkamolies #1 HROE Professional Development IBT Roadrunners IGY6 In A Walka Da Vida In It to Thin It incandECENt Gigawalkers JustDOIT Justin and the Pussycats Keep Austin Walking Weird Keep On Steppin Kendalls army Kickin Asphalt Kickin Asphalt!!! Kiss My Asphalt Kiss My Asphalt LAUNCHers LAW AND ORDER SPECIAL FITNESS UNIT Left TAP Shoe Lets Get Fiscal Longius ligula Look whos Walking Marcommas Marthas Minions Master Walkers Miles in Mascara Nervous Recs Not Fast Just Furious Not Fast Just Furious ODSL Bluebonnets ODSL Lonestars Off Like a Kilt On your Left Ponderous Powerhouse Team PPRI School of Walk PPRI Walkers Public Partnership and Outreach Team A Public Partnership and Outreach Team B Rad Runners Red Team RELLIS Racers RELLIS RAMBLERS Residence Life Team 1 Right TAP Shoe Risky Resources Rock the Pavement Runforestrun SBS Kiss My ALS Seven Groovy Chicks and an Old Dude Shes Got Legs Shut Up And Walk With Me

Sim Sinners Small Animal Dream Team SOBAcisers Sole Patrol Sole Sisters Sole Train Stack Stompers Stat Steppers Step Potential Step Up 2 Steppers in the Name of Love STEPS Do The Math Straight out of BVCOG Stress Walkers StuAct Steppers Swifties Tail Draggers Take a Walk on the Mild Side Talent Ed TCALL Trailblazers TCALL Walkers 1 Team Grit Team StuAct Team Walk This Way Texoradotana the abc team The Dogs Are Barking The Hugbanks Hikers The Left Overs The Pharmacy Sole Train The Poor Unfortunate Soles The Walking Dread The Walking Ped The Walking Workers The Wanderers The Wayfarers These Dogs Are Made For Walking TTI ViPs U Studs Unfortunate Soles Vixen Voyagers VSCS Happy Feet W.A.I.T. 8 Walk Force 1 Walk It Out WALK THIS WAY Walking our Asphalt Walking So We Can Eat Walking Warriors Walking with Brazos Wannabes WAT a Bunch of Losers! Will Walk For Wine Women Warriors WW Warriors Your Pace or Mine Go ahead and count them! That’s 176 teams. If your team is listed in maroon font, please check your start date.

Updated List of Teams (Is your team listed?)

1 CEOS 742.62 2 SOBAcisers 619.42 Total Miles: 1362.04

1 Holy Walkamolies #1 1517.03 2 Small Animal Dream Team 1463.63 3 Off Like a Kilt 1358.76 4 The Dogs Are Barking 1327.00 5 CVM Busy Bees 1214.33 6 Sole Patrol 1212.50 7 Sim Sinners 1019.66 8 Your Pace or Mine 940.17 9 Shes Got Legs 896.01 10 PPRI Walkers 894.10 11 Sole Train 892.02 12 Chicks with Kicks 851.47 13 On your Left 850.87 14 Fleet feet 828.87 15 The Pharmacy Sole Train 816.39 16 Marthas Minions 803.20 17 CEDP Movers and Shakers 775.08 18 IBT Roadrunners 772.14 19 PPRI School of Walk 758.28 20 The Poor Unfortunate Soles 754.86 21 Nervous Recs 734.16 22 ODSL Lonestars 705.85 23 ODSL Bluebonnets 698.42 24 Vixen Voyagers 683.48 25 Look whos Walking 671.61 26 ARCH Marchers 649.80 27 JustDOIT 640.36 28 Walking So We Can Eat 638.50 29 Stack Stompers 635.70 30 Chocolate Walkers 635.15

31 3 Dean Soup 634.34 32 ALL EAHRs 2018 626.56 33 The Hugbanks Hikers 626.06 34 Residence Life Team 1 600.62 35 Justin and the Pussycats 594.52 36 Team StuAct 593.82 37 HROE Professional Develop-ment 589.10 38 TCALL Walkers 1 581.37 39 These Dogs Are Made For Walk-ing 566.20 40 Left TAP Shoe 563.35 41 Diamonds in the rough 556.39 42 CONtinual Motion 546.18 43 TCALL Trailblazers 542.25 44 Right TAP Shoe 539.12 45 1 STEP FORWARD 2 STEPS BACK 535.50 46 Bushwalkers 532.49 47 the abc team 529.90 48 Christopher We Be Walken! 517.53 49 Public Partnership and Outreach Team A 511.84 50 Easier Said Than Run 507.54 51 Kickin Asphalt!!! 498.85 52 Holy Walkamolies 490.91 53 CONquerors 477.18 54 Step Up 2 471.35 55 SBS Kiss My ALS 468.66 56 Bush School Office of Energetic Exercisers 462.98 57 STEPS Do The Math 460.39 58 Talent Ed 415.07 59 Wannabes 415.00 60 WAT a Bunch of Losers! 404.31 61 7 Deadly Shins 387.91 62 Stat Steppers 376.00 63 Business As Usual 367.36 64 Beutel Beauties 364.50 65 StuAct Steppers 360.61 66 APCC Theme Team 344.00 67 Chemistry Staffers 337.85 68 VSCS Happy Feet 336.93

69 A Team 310.25 70 Beutel Strudels 168.34 71 The Walking Workers 141.69 72 (1 walker) 5.00 73 Will Walk For Wine 0.00 Total Miles: 45999.22

1 WALK THIS WAY 829.75 2 Red Team 776.54 3 Brazos County Walking Warriors 713.21 4 Risky Resources 508.82 5 Blue Team 506.73 6 Duces Tecum 446.68 Total Miles: 3781.73

1 Walking our Asphalt 1278.46 2 Cirque de Sore Legs 1258.70 3 Take a Walk on the Mild Side 897.92 4 Kiss My Asphalt 849.48 5 Swifties 798.40 6 Keep Austin Walking Weird 769.64 7 Rock the Pavement 753.84 8 BUSI Walk Implementers 726.39 9 Not Fast Just Furious 664.38 10 Are We There Yet 621.15 11 The Walking Peds 595.00 12 TTI ViPs 593.42 13 Detour de Arlington 443.90 14 The Walking Dread 365.62 15 Kiss My Asphalt 0.00 16 Runforestrun 0.00 Total Miles: 10616

Teams Placings by Organizations

Texas A&M University System

Texas A&M University Brazos County

Texas A&M Transportation

Institute

1 In A Walka Da Vida 1997.31 2 Walk Force 1 1325.40 3 LAW AND ORDER SPECIAL FITNESS UNIT 1305.00 4 RELLIS RAMBLERS 996.73 5 Step Potential 986.61 6 Holy Walkamole 899.00 7 RELLIS Racers 686.79 8 Keep On Steppin 627.91 9 Flab U Less 8 562.25 10 EOTC Clan 472.00 11 Team Walk This Way 437.36 Total Miles: 10296.36

1 CS Squares Team One 784.01 2 CS Squares Team Two 742.81 Total Miles: 1526.82

1 A

Walk to Remember 955.00 2 Lets Get Fiscal 555.50 Total Miles: 1510.50

1 979 Walkie Talkies 1029.46 2 Shut Up And Walk With Me 864.79 3 Rad Runners 775.44 Total Miles: 2669.69

1 IGY6 1168.95 2 Crazy 8 1143.27 3 Seven Groovy Chicks and an Old Dude 987.00 4 Straight out of BVCOG 667.27 5 The Left Overs 497.95 Total Miles: 4464.44

1 ARCHI 8 544.66 2 CLRC Ironmanikins 0.00 3 Fit for Duty 0.00 4 (1 walker) 0.00 Total Miles: 544.66

1

Miles in Mascara 265.27 Total Miles: 265.27

1 Steppers in the Name of Love 1810.00 *2 Devastating Divas 486.87 Total Miles: 1996.87

1 Tail Draggers 507.36 Total Miles: 507.36

1 Team Walk This Way 26.10 2 EOTC Clan 19.00 3 RELLIS RAMBLERS 15.00 4 Duces Tecum 12.40 5 Your Pace or Mine 10.40 6 Look whos Walking 9.50 7 Fleet feet 9.00 8 LAW AND ORDER SPE-

CIAL FITNESS UNIT 9.00 9 WALK THIS WAY 9.00 10 Keep On Steppin 7.50 11 The Left Overs 7.00 12 SOBAcisers 6.40 13 CEOS 5.00 14 On your Left 5.00 15 In A Walka Da Vida 3.50 16 CEDP Movers and Shakers

3.00 17 ARCHI 8 2.00 18 IGY6 2.00 19 Team Grit 2.00 20 7 Deadly Shins 1.90 21 Blue Team 1.50 22 Step Potential 1.50 23 Kickin Asphalt!!! 1.00 24 WAT a Bunch of Losers!

1.00 Total Pounds Lost: 169.70

Teams by Organizations (Continued) Losers

Texas A&M Engineering Extension

Service (TEEX)

City of College Station Community Services

Texas A&M System Office Employee

Wellness

Texas A&M EHS

Brazos Valley Council of Governments

Texas A&M Health Science Center

Employee Wellness

Texas A&M Foundation

Lincoln Recreation Center Seniors

AgriLife Extension Employee Wellness

Teams Who have Lost

Sponsors

Top 21 Teams in Year 21 of WAT

1. "There’s no BS, U, in these shoes!"

2. In A Walka Da Vida

3. The Wanderers

4. Steppers in the Name of Love

5. Off Like a Kilt

6. The Dogs Are Barking

7. LAW AND ORDER SPECIAL FITNESS UNIT

8. Walk Force 1

9. Holy Walkamolies #1

10.Cirque de Sore Legs

11.Team Grit

12.Heart And Sole

13.CVM Busy Bees

14.Walking our Asphalt

15.IGY6

16.Crazy 8

17.8 2 Much Bunch

18.Powerhouse Team

19.Sole Patrol

20.Sim Sinners

21.RELLIS RAMBLERS

Get Your WAT T-SHIRTS

2018 Walk Across Texas! t-shirts are available for purchase at the Brazos County Health Department. Short-sleeve only S - XL $10.00 2X - $12.00 3X - $13.00 For t-shirt purchases, con-tact Sara Mendez at SMen-dez@brazoscountytx.gov or 979-361-5730. We have all sizes.

REMINDERS

Report your miles weekly-Aim to have miles to the captain by Monday and captains report no later than Tuesday of each week for newsletter purposes.

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If you are part of a worksite wellness or other group, make sure you follow their guidelines for tracking miles and other participation requirements.

Chair/BLT Nutrition Education Extension Assistant: Katie Cook-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Treasurer: Sheri Meyer-Texas A&M University System FCH County Extension Agent/Advisor: Flora Williams-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Members: Alice Kirk-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Ashley Hernandez-Texas A&M University Intern Barb Herrman-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness Volunteer Christina Bookout-Texas A&M University Intern

Connie Arden-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness Volunteer JJ Macias-Texas A&M University System Kelley Melcher-Blue Cross Blue Shield Kendall Kulhanek-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Intern Kourtney Martin-Texas A&M University Kylie Schaper-Brazos County Health Department Intern Lesley Ward- City of Bryan Mary Parrish- Brazos County Health Department Michael Lopez-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Pat Pierson-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness Volunteer Sara Mendez-Brazos County Health Department Sue Boyette-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Master Wellness Volunteer

Educational programs of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service are open to all people without regard to race, color, sex, disability,

religion, age, or national origin. The Texas A&M University System, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the County Commissioners

Courts of Texas Cooperating.

For more information contact: Flora Williams at fewilliams@ag.tamu.edu or Katie Cook at Katie.Cook@ag.tamu.edu

Brazos County Office of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service or at 979-823-0129 HAPPY TRAILS!

If you have snapshots of your team in action, upcoming team or community fitness events, or stories please email them to Flora Williams at fewilliams@ag.tamu.edu.

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