FAQ

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.

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! you have the option of selecting time or kms to enter on the web app.

Teams can (and do) 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.

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.

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 Walk to Tuk.

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 Walk to Tuk 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 Walk to Tuk.

You can download the personal tracking log here.

Web App Tutorials

These are coming soon with video instructions for participants.

• Sign up for your first Walk to Tuk
• Signing up for Walk to Tuk if you already have an account with your email address
• Changing your account information
• Joining and Switching Teams
• Logging or entering your activity

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. Things like a shift of ice hockey would not count, but half an hour playing pickup hockey where you are on the ice for the whole half hour would.

• 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. For most, 15 minutes of Yoga might not make you out of breath, so may not count. Brisk walking or snowshoeing would, as might gymnastics, swimming, ice skating, etc.

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

The web app is updated in real time, so as soon as someone enters time, it appears on the interactive map right away. The time to start counting time or kilometres starts January 1, so until then, the distances will say zero.