Six members of LSRC Team continued with Challenge Northwest’s Lucky Streak Challenge, where participants walk or run every day from February 1 through March 17 (St. Patrick's Day). Participants choose goals of walking, running, or a combo for either 1, 3, or 5 miles per day to earn Bronze, Silver, or Gold status, respectively. Those who complete at least 1 mile outdoors every day earn the coveted status of Winter Warrior and their name gets printed on commemorative gear. The challenge benefits KidVantage, a non-profit that provides essential care, safety, and health goods to children and families in the Greater Puget Sound area. 

While most of the six-person team were Challenge veterans from January's Chilly Yeti Challenge, there was one new participant (welcome, Eric!). Also, unlike the Chilly Yeti Challenge, participants could miss up to two days while still keeping their Challenge streak. As winter thawed into spring and the days got longer, we were fortunate to have more opportunities to log miles in the daylight, but the combined 45-day Challenge was plenty long to get my year started and hopefully make my outdoor habit stick!

Team LSRC logged a total of 690.04 team miles, finishing 5th place overall in the team challenge. A special shoutout to Nidhi Hooda, who led the team in overall miles and placed 11th overall on the individual leaderboard, coming off a strong January as well (2nd highest mileage female for Team LSRC). Strong work to everyone who participated - congratulations on finishing out winter!

LSRC donates to KidVantage a portion of the total team miles accumulated; this year, at 5 cents per team mile, we made an additional donation of $34.50 in support of KidVantage.

Winter Warriors: Joy Chan, Nidhi Hooda