Welcome to The Walktober Step Challenge 2024 Competitions and Winners Page.
Early Registration Prize Draws
Coordinators who sign up five or more Teams by Sunday 22nd September will be entered into a Prize Draw for a Walktober Welcome goodie bag.
Participants who sign up by the same day, Sunday 22nd September will also be included in a separate prize draw for a Welcome goodie bag.
Week 1 Competitions
Walktober Quiz
After the great response to this competition over the past few challenges, we are once again quizzing you on all things walking.
Put your knowledge to the test and you can be in with a chance to win a VIP Walktober Goodie Bag. The quiz will go live on 1st October and a link to the quiz will be sent to each Walktober participant.
Team Target
Teams that reach this week’s weekly Team average of 35,000 steps will go into a Prize Draw. This Team average equates to approximately 5,000 steps per person per day.
Top 50, 100, 200, 300 Leaderboards
Changing behaviour is not easy. It takes lots of encouragement, motivation, and determination, so just by taking part in Walktober you are already a winner. Keep pushing yourself and encouraging your Team members to walk on the commute where possible. Those top 300 teams on the Leaderboard next week will be entered into Prize Draws for some great Walktober Goodie Bags.
Week 2 Competitions
Virtual Walking Challenge
This week’s competition is a virtual walking challenge.
We selected a famous Irish trail at random from a long list of trails from all four of Ireland’s spectacular provinces. Your challenge is to collectively walk enough steps to be entered into a prize draw with all the other teams from around the country who walked the same route.
Further details to follow.
Team Target
To help get you motivated for Week 2, we’ve increased the weekly team target by enough steps to encourage you to take that one extra journey by foot. Teams that reach this week’s weekly Team average of 40,000 steps will go into a Prize Draw. This Team average equates to approximately 5,700 steps per person per day.
Top 50, 100, 200, 300 Leaderboards
Those top 300 teams on the Leaderboard will be entered into Prize Draws for some great Walktober Goodie Bags.
Winners of Walktober Week 2 competitions will be announced on 15th October
Week 3 Competitions
Limerick Competition
This week’s competition is the ever-popular Limerick competition for all you poets out there. Make sure the theme of your Limerick is Walktober and don’t forget to get your entries into the Walktober Competition Entry Form by 2pm, Monday 21st of October.
Team Target
To help keep you motivated in Week 3, we’ve increased the weekly team target by enough steps to encourage you to take that one extra journey by foot. Teams that reach this week’s weekly Team average of 49,000 steps will go into a Prize Draw. This Team average equates to approximately 7,000 steps per person per day.
Top 50, 100, 200, 300 Leaderboards
Once again, this week, those top 300 teams on the Leaderboard will be entered into Prize Draws for some great Walktober Goodie Bags.
Week 4 & 5 Competitions
Halloween Themed Photo Competition.
This is classic competition to round off a brilliant month and we are always amazed at the lengths teams go to win. The theme to this competition is Halloween so we would like to see photos of you and your team members in your best Halloween fancy dress. We especially want to see your costumes on the commute or outdoors if you can brave the elements!
This is a team competition, so we encourage you to get as many members of your team as possible into your photo, with their permission of course!
To be in with a chance to win, submit your Team photo into the Walktober Competition Entry Form by 2pm, Thursday the 31st of October.
Team Target
To really motivate you to keep going this last week of Walktober we have once again increased the weekly team target by enough steps to encourage you to keep taking as many journeys as you can by foot. Teams that reach the weekly Team average of 56,000 steps will go into a Prize Draw. This Team average equates to approximately 8,000 steps per person per day.
Top 50, 100, 200, 300 Leaderboards
Once again this week, those top 300 teams on the Leaderboard will be entered into Prize Draws for some great Walktober Goodie Bags.
Final Competition Winners
Overall Prize Winners will be announced on Wednesday the 6th of November.