Woot! Woot! Week 5 is in the done! Eighty-three teams have made it

across Texas. The WAT Taskforce hopes to see you at the Recharge

Walk Across Texas 2017 Week 5

Important Dates at a Glance

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Celebrating 20 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 2017

March 28, 2017

WAT dates—February 18- April 15, 2017 Week 1: February 18-24, 2017 Week 2: February 25-March 3, 2017 Week 3: March 4-10, 2017 Week 4: March 11-17, 2017 Week 5: March 18-24, 2017 Recharge Event, March 23, 2017; Wolf Pen Creek Week 6: March 25-31, 2017 (You are here) Week 7: April 1-7, 2017 Week 8: April 8-14, 2017 Last day to enter miles—April 22, 2017 Report your team or individual physical activity each week so team captains can report by Tuesday at 12:00 noon for news-letter purposes.

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False. Muscle weighs more than fat.

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portant goal of fitness and exercise.

True. You should warm up before exercising.

False. The more you sweat during a

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Most Valuable Player Award

What: Most Valuable Player Award Nominations

Who: Most inspiring team member

When: By April 8

How: Email nominations should be sent with an

explanation of why this team member has been

an inspiration to you or your team. Type your

details, attach a picture or two, and push the

send button to fewilliams@ag.tamu.edu by April

8.

Fun times at Wolf Pen Creek!

Recharge Event Spotlights

Scrambled Legs And Achin 3374.76 Senior Hustlers 3310.43 The Holy Walkamolies 3178.02 Crazy 8 3083.10 CHI Burleson 3028.79 Law and Order SFU 2843.33 CATs 2336.45 Horsin Around 2 2167.45 Tornadoes 2114.16 Texas Two Steps Over You 2048.00 Too Inspired To Be Tired 1999.56 The Paper Pushers 1978.00 The Walking Dead 1960.00 Walk Force 1 1929.43 DBAsAndDevs 1789.95 Valley Park Twisted Blisters 1782.86 Move It So You Can Lose It 1762.69 Dynamic Steppers 1720.74 CS Squares 1717.96 Walkie Talkies 1714.85

Meet the Movers and Shakers

Walk Force 1 32.00 DOR Scrambled Legs 30.00 History Buffs 2 28.80 Toned up for WAT 28.10 Geo-Trackers 28.01 PRECINCT 3 - WE LET A KID PICK OUR

NAME 24.00 Crazy 8 23.70 Scrambled Legs And Achin 22.50 CHI Burleson 22.00 WTF wheres the finish 21.00 Shes Got Legs 20.60 Flab-U-Less 8 19.50 Seven Flowers and a Cactus 19.00 Bryan Rebooters 18.00 Dynamic Steppers 18.00 ResLifers I 17.90 CONstantly Moving 15.80 Destiny Walkers 15.00 Leaving it Behind 14.80 Strutterflies 14.70

1. Catherine 207.95 2. Johanna 156.50 3. Dennis 151.05 4. LaQuita 129.07 5. Tony 116.00 6. Terrell 115.50 7. Michael 83.80 8. Pat 61.05 9. Lucia 43.00 10. eric 34.07 11. JESSICA 31.75 12. Barbara 11.24 13. Tom 7.50

Annie Williams Ava Begum Barbara Guidrey Catherine Herrin Cierra Robison Dorothy Rainwater Dorothy Ross Dorothy Thomas Elsie Johnson Flora Williams Frank Faytak Gus Roman Johanna Roman

Josephine Rosario Kim Reverman Lesley Ward Mike Lopez Nicole Vargas Pat Nichols Pat Pierson Sara Mendez Stephanie Sechrist Terry Noack Therese Coate Wendy Kreider Thank you for attending!

WAT Recharge Event Who’s Who

March is National Nutrition Month. Click the picture below to find out more about preparing Staying Away from Fad

Diets.

Walk Across Texas

1. Scrambled Legs And Achin 3374.76

2. Senior Hustlers 3310.43

3. The Holy Walkamolies 3178.02

4. Crazy 8 3083.10

5. CHI Burleson 3028.79

6. Law and Order SFU 2843.33

7. CATs 2336.45

8. Horsin Around 2 2167.45

9. Tornadoes 2114.16

10. Texas Two Steps Over You 2048.00

11. Too Inspired To Be Tired 1999.56

12. The Paper Pushers 1978.00

13. The Walking Dead 1960.00

14. Walk Force 1 1929.43

15. DBAsAndDevs 1789.95

16. Valley Park Twisted Blisters 1782.86

17. Move It So You Can Lose It 1762.69

18. Dynamic Steppers 1720.74

19. CS Squares 1717.96

20. Walkie Talkies 1714.85

21. House of Carbs 1703.89

22. Walker TTI Rangers 1700.58

23. Holy Fit Not Again 1666.00

24. The Powerhouse Team 1653.31

25. Risky Resources 1625.74

26. Working It Every Day 1625.31

27. Leaving it Behind 1617.49

28. Fridays WW Healthy Achievers 1595.25

29. Be Audit You Can Be 1560.30

30. Force and Motion 1538.76

31. WWWWW 1494.70

32. Walka Walka Walkers 1490.41

33. Spider Pigs 1459.50

34. Shes Got Legs 1452.27

35. Footloose 1447.28

36. IN IT 2 THIN IT 1445.93

37. Run Time Exceptions 1441.83

38. DOR Walking our Hasselhoffs 1438.27

39. Strutterflies 1434.95

40. Cupcake Mafia 1400.09

41. High Steppers 1396.99

42. Sweet Soles 1394.09

43. Risky Business 1391.00

44. IODP Core Whisperers 1364.72

45. TX Freedom Walkers 1354.37

46. Team Spongebob1349.30

47. History Buffs Team 1 1346.15

48. Pace This 1337.71

49. CVM Young and The Restless 1309.33

50. Workforce Showdown 1298.03

51. Stack Stompers 1293.95

52. iWalk 1292.52

53. Seven Flowers and a Cactus 1280.61

54. Mighty Tenderfoots 1270.99

55. 2nd Team All Expo 1265.04

56. Mission Slimpossible 1260.00

57. Weight Watchers Walkers 1254.74

58. ARCH Marchers 1242.51

59. Junk Food Fighters 1237.97

60. SBS 1234.95

61. Walk of Life 1234.32

62. DOR Maestrollin Over You 1229.95

63. The Grate Ate 1224.98

64. Caffeinators 1224.20

65. Walking on Sunshine 1217.00

66. LRC Steppers 1216.21

67. Between a Walk and a Hard Pace 1215.97

68. TAMU Chemistry 1209.70

69. Women Warriors 1207.49

70. Brazos County Walking Warriors 1206.29

71. Lipid Destroyers 1202.11

72. The Texas Walkstars 1197.00

73. WTF wheres the finish 1193.50

74. Provost Posse 1191.38

75. Road Runners 1178.93

76. Look Ma Get the Camera 1159.60

77. We Are Kind of a Big Deal 1159.44

78. Agony of DeFeet 1142.00

79. Galvins Gals plus 1 1140.62

80. Dynacisers 17 1137.00

81. Sole Train 3 1132.45

82. Rec Allstars 1119.05

83. Girls on Fire 1107.13

84. Cardio Pacers 1104.28

85. Medicine Meanderers 1099.55

86. Destiny Walkers 1072.74

87. History Buffs 2 1069.38

88. Gait Keepers 1062.41

89. Swole Nation 1057.41

90. Team STEPPS 1056.76

91. Sweat Regret and Oxygen 1054.20

92. All EAHRs 2017 1053.86

93. Revd Up 1051.56

94. DOR Scrambled Legs 1050.24

95. Flab-U-Less 8 1044.10

96. Leisure Crew 1043.50

97. Team Ninja Turtles 1038.99

98. Tread Walkers 1026.66

99. VMTH Administration Walkers 998.76

100. The Game is Afoot 997.00

101. English Language Institute 993.39

102. DOR Between a Walk and a Hard Pace 991.55

103. Walkamolies 979.66

104. CONstantly Moving 970.83

105. DOR Pond Patrol 966.70

106. Poor Unfortunate Soles 963.85

107. Toned up for WAT 961.59

108. Admissions Walkamolies 957.03

109. The Bluebonnets 956.32

110. The Wellness Walkers 950.25

111. Agony of De Feet 948.36

112. School of Walk! 947.76

113. Knights of the Buffet Table 945.70

114. Walkers, Texas Technicians 941.71

115. Pedestrians Crossing 935.06

116. Texas Aggie Trekkers 930.23

117. incandECENt Gigawalkers 922.13

118. DARS 920.09

119. PRECINCT 3 FAT LOSERS 917.50

120. Right TAP Shoe 908.96

121. Magnificent 8 903.00

122. Motley Shue 890.54

123. The Nerd Herd 885.92

124. Running Samples 885.54

125. Your Pace or Mine 880.97

Team Progress

126. Move It To Lose It 879.54

127. PRECINCT 3 - WE LET A KID PICK OUR NAME 868.50

128. The Walking Tread 866.40

129. DSWAT Disability Services Walks Across Texas 865.50

130. Philosophy Department Faculty 863.84

131. DOR RDS Day of the Deadline 862.22

132. The Skywalkers 855.65

133. Holy Walkamoly 853.68

134. PPO - Team C 849.24

135. Walka Walka 841.27

136. Workday Walkamolies 829.84

137. DOR Sole Mates1 828.75

138. The Happy Walkie Talkies 823.88

139. DOR Wandering About 823.63

140. Your Pace or Mine 811.55

141. Turn Down for WAT 810.84

142. Aggie FACT 810.03

143. School of Walk 809.33

144. IT Product Strategy and Communica-tion 806.88

145. Walking Warriors 805.67

146. Weight Walkers 797.82

147. Walk it like its hot 793.05

148. Valley Park Venti Pedesters 783.11

149. Insert Clever Team Name Here 782.33

150. Agony of de Feet 780.69

151. Left TAP Shoe 775.23

152. Lots of Life 771.48

153. Team SLAY 767.41

154. Trot Across Texas 766.22

155. The STEP Children 758.06

156. Texas Tree Huggers 749.06

157. ARCH Madness 731.00

158. Beutel Beauties 730.24

159. The Firecrackers 729.48

160. Walking Our Arsenics Off 728.36

161. The Young and the Restless 725.80

162. FMO Roaming Crew 724.09

163. Marcharitas 694.51

164. Walk Unless Chased 687.38

165. Red Hot Chili Steppers 673.54

166. Runnin Dirty 671.01

167. 4Dubs 660.63

168. Valley Park Pedestrian Punx 660.57

169. Live Inspired 2017 659.22

170. The Fungi s 655.75

171. The Walking Guild 654.71

172. Geo-Trackers 646.11

173. Blazing Sloths 643.08

174. PPO Team A 640.92

175. Walk This Way 639.21

176. Center for Student Athlete Services 632.20

177. Fit for Duty 621.74

178. These Boots were Made for Walking 617.71

179. Those Little Ole� Mile-Shrinkers 612.14

180. CTE Roamers 602.93

181. The Hotsteppers 597.05

182. DOR Scrambled Legs 584.62

183. The Unstoppables 583.45

184. Small Animal Busy Bees 582.71

185. TwoSteppers 572.77

186. CTE Wanderers 571.17

187. Team RCHI 570.00

188. Team Renaissance 546.94

189. Nancys Walkers 542.61

190. DOR Sole Survivors 542.01

191. ResLifers I 541.19

192. UCENs Flab U Less 8 537.43

193. Ponderous 532.43

194. EOTC Clan 530.62

195. Business as Usual 529.18

196. TEAM WW 524.27

197. Bryan Rebooters 508.01

198. CTE Travelers 495.12

199. Walkie Talkies 487.07

200. TTI COMics 475.93

201. The Fabulous Crew 468.90

202. Hustle and Flow 461.63

203. Walk This Way 420.61

204. Philosophy Department Staff 415.94

205. Admissions Coast Busters 408.00

206. Do Something Athletic 400.49

207. Walk n Wine 397.77

208. ResLifers 393.13

209. The Pacemakers 356.40

210. Rebellious Unicorns by Nature 332.33

211. super moms 298.59

212. Risky Business 295.35

213. Walking for Ama 281.01

214. BVCIL 281.00

215. Chak De 275.11

216. DOR Dumbledores Army 272.38

217. DOR Poor Unfortunate Soles 210.10

218. ResLifers2 182.23

219. 833 miles is a piece of cake 131.00

220. [Insert Team Name] 94.57

221. The Dancing Dendrites 88.21

222. 8 in the Family 18.85

Wow! How about that 135 teams have made it across Texas. Let’s see how many join them week six.

Team Progress

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Co-Chairs:

Lesley Ward- City of Bryan Nicole Vargas- Brazos County Health Department

Treasurer:

Sheri Meyer-TAMU System

FCS County Extension Agent: Flora Williams-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

BLT Nutrition Education Extension Assistant

Stephanie Sechrist-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

Members: Sara Mendez-Brazos County Health Department

Sarah Tobola-TAMU Alice Kirk-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension (WAT Program

Director) Michael Lopez-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

JJ Macias-TAMU Pat Pierson-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness

Volunteer Connie Arden-Texas A&M AgriLife Master Wellness

Volunteer Kelley Melcher-Blue Cross Blue Shield

Kandi Smith-Medi Weight Loss Maritza Hernandez-Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

Grace Carroll-Community At Large

The 833 Mile Club

2nd Team All Expo Admissions Walkamolies Agony of De Feet Agony of DeFeet All EAHRs 2017 ARCH Marchers Be Audit You Can Be Between a Walk and a Hard Pace Brazos County Walking Warriors Caffeinators Cardio Pacers CATs CHI Burleson CONstantly Moving Crazy 8 CS Squares Cupcake Mafia CVM Young and The Restless DARS DBAsAndDevs Destiny Walkers DOR Between a Walk and a Hard Pace DOR Maestrollin Over You DOR Pond Patrol DOR RDS Day of the Deadline DOR Scrambled Legs DOR Walking our Hasselhoffs DSWAT Disability Services Walks Across Texas Dynacisers 17 Dynamic Steppers English Language Institute Flab-U-Less 8 Footloose Force and Motion Fridays WW Healthy Achievers Gait Keepers Galvins Gals plus 1 Girls on Fire High Steppers History Buffs 2 History Buffs Team 1 Holy Fit Not Again Holy Walkamoly Horsin Around 2 House of Carbs

IN IT 2 THIN IT incandECENt Gigawalkers IODP Core Whisperers iWalk Junk Food Fighters Knights of the Buffet Table Law and Order SFU Leaving it Behind Leisure Crew Lipid Destroyers Look Ma Get the Camera LRC Steppers Magnificent 8 Medicine Meanderers Mighty Tenderfoots Mission Slimpossible Motley Shue Move It So You Can Lose It Move It To Lose It Pace This Pedestrians Crossing Philosophy Department Faculty Poor Unfortunate Soles PPO - Team C PRECINCT 3 - WE LET A KID PICK OUR NAME PRECINCT 3 FAT LOSERS Provost Posse Rec Allstars Revd Up Right TAP Shoe Risky Business Risky Resources Road Runners Run Time Exceptions Running Samples SBS School of Walk! Scrambled Legs And Achin Senior Hustlers Seven Flowers and a Cactus Shes Got Legs Sole Train 3 Spider Pigs Stack Stompers Strutterflies

Sweat Regret and Oxygen Sweet Soles Swole Nation TAMU Chemistry Team Ninja Turtles Team Spongebob Team STEPPS Texas Aggie Trekkers Texas Two Steps Over You The Bluebonnets The Game is Afoot The Grate Ate The Holy Walkamolies The Nerd Herd The Paper Pushers The Powerhouse Team The Skywalkers The Texas Walkstars The Walking Dead The Walking Tread The Wellness Walkers Toned up for WAT Too Inspired To Be Tired Tornadoes Tread Walkers TX Freedom Walkers Valley Park Twisted Blisters VMTH Administration Walkers Walk Force 1 Walk of Life Walka Walka Walka Walka Walkers Walkamolies Walker TTI Rangers Walkers, Texas Technicians Walkie Talkies Walking on Sunshine We Are Kind of a Big Deal Weight Watchers Walkers Women Warriors Workforce Showdown Working It Every Day WTF wheres the finish WWWWW Your Pace or Mine

For more information contact: Flora Williams at fewilliams@ag.tamu.edu Brazos County Office of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service or at 979-823-0129

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