Pilbara Health

With ten teams in the final 55, our Be Active challengers can hold their heads high in the “step around Australia and New Zealand” ten-week event.

Health advisor Leanne Harvey commented that many competitors regularly beat the daily challenge of 10,000 steps and boosted their fitness levels with gym workouts, daily runs and sporting activities. "The best result for the Pilbara Health team is hearing people talk about how the challenge has changed their activity level levels," Leanne said.

The Western Australian Be Active top five saw the ‘Try Hardlys’, a team of long term planners aged from 36 to 50, rip across the finishing line to 13th position. Challengers from Yandi came in at 19th while ‘Maree and the Foot Soldiers’ marched into 27th position.

"Achieving 13th position is a great outcome and it all came about because of Phil Mullan. He suffered a heart attack a few months ago and it was his idea to pull a team together and get fit,” Try Hardlys team player Tony Toledo said. According to Tony, the closely-knit Quadrant team are lighter, fitter and stronger as a result of competing in the challenge.

Other members of the team were Adam Glenister and Allen Knapp. Stealing the limelight for Western Australia in the Premier Top 5 were the Hedgewigs (featured in Pilbara Health last month). In the final line-up, the West Angelas challengers ranked 14th on the leader board.

 

 

Be Active Top 5
Rank	Team Name	Work Site	Destination	Steps Completed
13	Try Hardlys	Coastal Operations	Adelaide, SA	5,494,521
19	Yandi RTP	Yandicoogina	Geraldton	5,177,790
27	Maree and the Foot Soldiers	Perth	Halls Creek, WA	4,619,387
40	MEM3	Greater Brockman	Gove, NT	4,207,125
42	The Fifo Ferals	Pilbara Rail	Gove, NT	4,187,621
Premier Top 5
Rank	Team Name	Work Site	Destination	Steps Completed
14	Hedgewigs	West Angelas	Hunter Valley, NSW	6,015,832
25	Wererabbits	Resource Development	Geraldton	5,230,762
29	Rouleurs	Resource Development	Pilbara, WA	4,954,415
51	The Cosmopolitans	Greater Paraburdoo	Katherine Gorge, NT	4,280,107
55	Woodies Walkers	Tom Price & Marandoo	Jabiru, NT	4,214,484

Be Active fact file

Average steps per team per challenge level

• Be Active Average (daily) – 30, 905
• Premier (daily) – 45, 991   
  

Average steps per team member per challenge level

• Be Active (daily) – 7, 950
• Premier (daily) – 11, 771
  

Average waist measurement per challenge

• Be Active - Male = 94.90 cm (week 9), 94.11 cm (week 10)
• Be Active - Female = 83.0 cm (week 9), 77.95 cm (week 10)
• Premier - Male = 131cm (week 9), 111.22cm (week 10)
• Premier - Female = 75.00cm (week 9), 66cm (week 10) – only one entry

Be Active winners

Congratulations to the final winners of the Be Active random prize draw, rewarding challengers who achieved an average of 10,000 steps a day over a two-week period.

The lucky winners bag a selection of goodies ranging from MP3 players, backpacks and hammocks to shower radios and lunchboxes.  

Congratulations again the Try Hardlys on coming top in WA and 13th in the national Be Active challenge.

Some of the lucky winners are:

• Kirsty Liddicoat, operators planner, West Angelas
• Agata Piwowarek, warehouse administrator, Yandi RTP
• Ellen Hilsz, active lifestyle coordinator, Marandoo
• Barry Jilbert, manager water effectiveness, Perth
• Julie Culverwell, human resources consultant, Expansion Projects 
• Kirsten Estcourt, approvals coordinator, Perth