Despite COVID-19, 2020 Walk & Ride Challenge a Success

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, November 24, 2020

This year, MCDOT’s annual Walk & Ride Challenge held its first virtual competition with great results – more than 100 teams with nearly 500 participants competed in the three-week event that raised morale, enhanced health and provided team-building benefits. The annual event encourages teams of three to five employees who work in the County’s Transportation Management Districts to incorporate walking into their daily routines. The teams and individuals compete for prizes by seeing who can log the most steps on their commutes, by combining walking with transit or simply walking to work or at lunchtime.   

Commuter Services was successful in getting the word out about the event through e-blasts and contacts with employers and employees. Those teleworking were encouraged to challenge themselves and their co-workers to include walking in their daily schedules while working from home.   

This year’s winners were:

TMD Area	1st Place Team	Company/Organization	Team's Averaged Steps	Team's Total Actual Steps
Bethesda	COVID Crushers	ASHP - America Society of Health-System Pharmacists	178,590	892,956
Friendship Heights	Live Now, Dilate	Washington Eye Physicians & Surgeons	513,817	2,569,086
Greater Shady Grove	TransCell-5	Macrogenics, Inc.	269,786	1,348,934
North Bethesda	Compass Points	Kaiser Permanente	423,141	2,115,705
Silver Spring	The Mighty WHQ Stars	M-NCPPC Montgomery Planning	183,445	550,335

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For transportation updates related to COVID-19 health crisis, visit MCDOT’s transportation resource page for COVID-19.

Release ID: 20-216
Media Contact: Hannah Henn 240-777-8389