Stridin'

On Friday I walked into my cube in the morning and noticed a stack of

nondescript mail sitting on my desk. It doesn't happen often, but when it does its usually junk reminders for our conferences and things of that nature. I quickly rifled through and flipped the junk into the garbage under my desk without paying much attention to the conference reminder and subscription request for Neurology Weekly, but at the bottom was a smaller green card with the words "Heart at Work Lifestyle Challenge." I turned it over to see an empty calendar ripe for check marks. Essentially, the point of the card was to promote healthy lifestyles by suggesting that people walk around the office during the day. Providing the incentive of winning a prize if they work out or walk on a near daily basis. 'Striding' is written on people's dry erase boards as they fast walk through the maze of cubes, down the stairs, through a maze of other cubes and back up the stairs. They move past, waving in groups of two to six with beads of sweat forming on their foreheads.