With the start of a new year comes our new team challenge, Get Off Your Stern, to help you (if you need it!) to get physically active (and maybe a little bit competitive).
It’s no secret that taking part in physical activity not only improves your physical health and wellbeing but also your mental health too through the release of chemicals to the brain. So, what better way to kick start your 2023 than taking part in our latest team challenge.
Here are some photos from along the way:
Week 9 / Stage 2
Week 8
Week 7
Week 6
Week 5
Week 4 / Stage 1
Week 3
Week 2 
Week 1
The all-important teams
The Mighty Mariners (1)
Gemma Waterfield
Rachel Hughes
Caroline Mariner
Aida Ardelean
Rhian Cardon
Lynsey Powell
ELT Endurance (2)
Mel Salmon
Vera Lannek
James Moore
Martin Vos
Bo-Erik Blomqvist
JC Audouin
Team Friendship (3)
Anya Parkhouse-Turner
Sam Tilley
Scott Burnett
Jules Robinson
Nancy Michalopoulou
Stefano Negro
The Sourcerers (4)
Emma Stevenson
Jon Izzard
Alek Weismantel
Diane Dragonetti
JP Devia
Angel Gomez
The Bulldozers (5)
Andrea Rudan
Alan Aldridge
Andrea Bottcher
Sylvia Helms
James TK
Riccardo Di Berardino
SternBurners (6)
Alice Toso
Jake Fleetwood
Teemu Piipponen
Marie Dunleavy
Holger Vatter
Marco Santi
Cycles Kohmeters so Faraday it Hertz (7)
John Dodsworth
Iain Mackay
Julian Phan
Martin Ralph
Oliver Schinner
Darren Town
What’s involved?
In teams of six, the distance that you travel will contribute to the building of a ship, measured in tonnes, so the further you travel, the more tonnage you will add to your ‘ship’. The team with the most amount of tonnage, and therefore the biggest ship will be crowned the winners.
The distance your team travels in KMs = tonnage, and the winning team is the one who builds the biggest vessel!
How will it work?
As a team you will work together to travel as far as possible – you can run, walk (walking around your home, the shops, the office etc. counts too!), cycle, swim, the distance, doing whatever type of activity you like, it just needs to be an activity that you can measure the distance you have travelled and is done under your own steam – no motorised vehicles allowed!
Factors
As in previous challenges, we will apply a factor of three for any running, walking, climbing, swimming, or rowing which means 1km of running = 3km contribution to the team’s distance. Just to be clear, there is no factor for cycling, 1km of cycling = 1km contribution.
We will be applying a factor to convert the KMs travelled into tonnes to give us all a fighting chance at building something of a decent size.
When will the challenge take place?
We will run the challenge in three stages, each stage lasting four weeks with a week’s rest in between to help recharge everyone’s batteries and of course strategise for the next stage!
The stages will break down as follows:
Measuring the distance you have travelled
If you use a fitness tracker (Apple Watch, Fitbit etc.) then you can easily identify the distance you have travelled in a given time period. Most mobile phones will do the same measurement for you, just remember to take your phone with you! Or you can keep it really simple and map your walking, cycling, running route on www.mapmyrun.com to get the distance you are travelling.
Tracking your distance
Each team captain will be responsible for collating their team’s distance on a weekly basis and submitting it to the communications mailbox – communications@carnivalshipbuilding.com
Anya has kindly created a team tracker template should you wish to use it to collate your team’s information, you can find it here. Just make sure you save a copy before you start populating it.
