National Step Challenge Points Bonus Day

After my despicable post on how to cheat on the National Step Challenge, there are readers who asked us for more information. Good news! Health Promotion Board is launching a bonus point day whereby you can earn 2X the points on 8th May. The season 1 will end on 30th of June and there must have been many Unfit Singaporeans who has been giving feedback that they are unable to clock 10,000 steps every day and they need some point boost along the way. Our kind governmental agency who has been giving out vouchers to get lazy ass Singaporeans off their seat has complied.

Details can be found here

 

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5 Despicable Ways to Earn Vouchers via HPB's National Steps Challenge

On 30th of January, we waited in line to collect our free pacer in order to participate in the National Steps Challenge. How the challenge works is pretty simple, download the Healthy 365 App, link it to your free pace tracker, strap on the pace tracker to some part of your body and go about your daily lives. The trick is that you will need to walk at least 5000 steps to a maximum 10,000 steps per day in order to earn up to 60 points a day and the points can be used to exchange for vouchers.

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GuangZhou - China: Challenging and Thrilling Run of Yue Xiu Park (越秀公园）

The last time I visited GuangZhou was during 2013 and I took a 10 km run from the wholesale market district of Hai Zhu to the glimming modern Canton Tower. It is still one of the best foreign country run in my personal opinion and this time around, I am determined to try out a new running spot in Guangzhou... despite warnings of a haze alert (pollution) at a yellow (bad) level. Making the trip again with Bad Bear again, we came to check out the famous wholesale markets of GuangZhou and we were so tired everyday due to endless amount of walking touring the countless huge malls all around GZ. Base on my IPhone health app, we walked at least 10km each day and it takes special determination (especially for the lazy Bear) to drag our ass out for a run. I gave Bear Bear the choice of location to run since he gamely took up my challenge of running in this polluted city. He picked the biggest and most badass park in GZ.

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