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Caulfield team strides the globe

3 August 2005

A staff team representing the Caulfield campus is striding ahead in this year's Global Corporate Challenge, a virtual walking race around the world.

The seven-member team is leading the pack of more than 1500 corporate teams from around Australia.

The challenge aims to bring together two common ambitions -- getting fit and travelling the world -- by encouraging participants to walk at least 10,000 steps each day.

They record the number of steps they take during their everyday activity over six months and are taken on a virtual tour of the globe.

Caulfield campus manager Ms Helen Dunne said the team was highly motivated, with team members committed to achieving more than 20,000 steps each per day.

"They are doing a magnificent job, and I am sure everyone joins me in wishing them continued great walking," Ms Dunne said.

The virtual journey takes teams to 46 countries, 112 destinations and covers 20,355 kilometres.

The contest started on 26 May at Noonamah, near Darwin, and will finish on 8 November in Antarctica. The Monash team is now in Haiti, about 800 steps ahead of its nearest rival -- one of the teams from Australia Post.

The Monash team members are: Dr Bala Balachandran, a lecturer in accounting and finance; Dr Jill Grogan, head of Monash Caulfield Health Service; Dr Margaret Croxford, financial services coordinator in the IT faculty; Ms Louise Oliaro, a lecturer in the School of Primary Health Care; Mr Martin Doulton, general manager, Monash Sport, Clayton campus; Ms Rosemary Demirtas, finance officer in the IT faculty; and Ms Lorraine Foxall, accounts assistant with the Monash Caulfield Bookshop.

Dr Grogan said everyone on this year's global team was benefiting from the extra exercise provided by their daily walks.

The virtual global walk is supported by the Caulfield campus fitness program called ACCTIVE -- Active Caulfield Community to Increase Vitality and Energy.

The program's first activity was last year's 10,000 Steps Coast to Coast Challenge in which teams 'walked' across Australia.

For more information on the Global Corporate Challenge, visit www.globalcc.com.au/.