FAQ

If you need a hand navigating our new NWTRPA Walking Challenge web app, click here!

• One hour of walking equals 5km for teams of 1 – 10 members.
• One hour of walking equals 4km for teams of 11 – 20 members.

Here are a few guidelines that we hope will help you determine what activity counts and what does not. The activity must be:

• In bouts of at least 15 continuous minutes — This means that five minutes of walking here and there throughout the day does not count.
• Moderate to vigorous-intensity, aerobic physical activity — This means the activity may cause you to sweat and be “out of breath”. Your heart rate should increase when exercising.

Here are examples of activities that CAN count towards the NWTRPA Walking Challenge:

• Walking
• Jogging
• Cross-country skiing
• Snow Shoeing
• Biking
• Lane Swimming

Examples of activities that CANNOT be counted towards the NWTRPA Walking Challenge:

• Yoga
• Hockey
• Cleaning
• Snowmobiling
• Weight Lifting
• Time Spent on Your Feet at Work
• Martial Arts

Yes! Visit the Prizes page under the About tab to see all the great prizes that can be won.

Maps and team progress will be updated immediately as times are entered (or edited) in the NWTRPA Walking Challenge web app. Time/distance will be considered for prizes every week on the following dates at 11:59pm (Mountain Time):

• January 9, 2023: Team Captains: Deadline to edit/enter team activity for WEEK 1 To be Eligible for Week 1 prize
• January 16, 2023: Team Captains: Deadline to edit/enter team activity for WEEK 2 To be Eligible for Week 2 prize
• January 23, 2023: Team Captains: Deadline to edit/enter team activity for WEEK 3 To be Eligible for Week 3 prize
• January 30, 2023: Team Captains: Deadline to edit/enter team activity for WEEK 4 To be Eligible for Week 4 prize
• February 6, 2023: Team Captains: Deadline to edit/enter team activity for WEEK 5 To be Eligible for Week 5 prize
• February 13, 2023: Team Captains: Deadline to edit/enter team activity for WEEK 6 To be Eligible for Week 6 prize
• February 20, 2023: Team Captains: Deadline to edit/enter team activity for WEEK 7 To be Eligible for Week 7 prize
• March 1, 2023: Team Captains: Deadline to edit/enter team activity for WEEK 8 To be Eligible for Week 8 prize

Yes! The Resources page has plenty of useful tools to help. 

For participants, the Personal Tracking Log is a spreadsheet that can be used to track daily activity and automatically adds up your weekly walking totals. It can be sent to your team captain if they registered you for the NWTRPA Walking Challenge and are submitting your times for you, but it can also be used to help keep you organized with what to enter when using the web app if you registered yourself for the NWTRPA Walking Challenge.

If you’re a Captain Registered user having trouble, the following information might help. If you have any questions that aren’t answered below, please get in touch with us at walkotuk@nwtrpa.org!

How do I keep track of my activity?

• There are many helpful resources to help you with your NWTRPA Walking Challenge. Please note that using this resource doesn’t mean your activity was submitted! You must give your tracked activity to your Team Captain for it to be entered into the web app for you.
• If your Team Captain will be entering your activity online for you, all you have to do is enter your activity into the calendar and send it to them- your Team Captain will take care of the rest! 

What are submission deadlines and what do I need to do about them?

• This handy calendar will help you keep track of submission deadlines, which happen at 11:59pm on the dates indicated. Do your best to get your activity for the period to your Team Captain on the dates indicated. These deadlines are meant to help keep everyone motivated on the NWTRPA Walking Challenge and make every participant from the NWT eligible for the weekly prize draws!
• **Please note that submission deadlines will NOT be locked in, so your Team Captain will always be able to enter activity for dates that have passed.

For participants, unfortunately, no. Each person can only participate on one team.

Team captains can captain more than one team, but their time/distance only counts towards one team.

• A community team is made up of family, friends, neighbours, or any members of the community.
• A corporate team is a workplace team made up of coworkers.
• A school team is made up of faculty and/or students of a class. Class teams are the only team type permitted to have more than 20 participants to allow for the entire class to participate.

Only 20 people can participate per team, except if the team is a school team.

Options:

• Split your team into two teams.
• Check the website to see if there are other teams from your community that people could join.

Yes! This is a new feature that comes with our new web app.

Kilometres for activity done in bouts of 15 minutes or more can be entered online the same way that time is submitted, but steps cannot be entered. Step trackers often count steps during the entire day, but only activities that are done for 15 minutes or more without stopping count for the NWTRPA Walking Challenge.

A team can register from anywhere in the world! However, only teams and team members in the NWT will be eligible for prizes.

Yes. Family or friends who don’t live in the NWT can join a team based in the NWT. However, people who live outside of the NWT are not eligible to win the Canadian North flight pass.