🏆 Walktober 2026

We wrapped up with more than 6.5 million reported steps. That’s about 3,100 miles of movement!

What started as a Physical Therapy Month challenge became a month of walking, rolling, wheeling, cycling, swimming, lifting, dancing, campus walks, and team rivalries.

Most importantly, it gave a lot more people reasons to move. 🧡

That was really the point: movement looks different for everyone, and physical therapy is about helping people move, recover, participate, and stay engaged in the lives they want to live.

And the final numbers are in. Nobody needs to refresh the leaderboard anymore. 👀

The Walkie Talkies closed out Walktober with 1,364,183 steps, edging out the Gaitkeepers at 1,339,833. 🏁 After all that back-and-forth-edge-of-our-seat-leaderboard-stalking, the final gap is 24,350 steps, a perfectly reasonable lead ⚡🏆⚡ or just within the margin of measurement error close, depending on which team you ask!! 😅

Team OLLI finished third in Steps with 650,987, and then casually took the Hours Moved leaderboard as well, with 346 h 20 min. Different leaderboard, same energy. 🔥🔥🔥

On the individual side, Andrew Montañez finished at an extraordinary 720,513 steps. Aly Baldwin took second with 419,748, and Rebecca Lattimore finished third with 410,067. That is some serious mileage. 🚀

And Rebecca was not done: she also took the top spot in Individual Hours Moved with 48 h 48 min, followed by Levi Johnson at 23 h 22 min and Alvaro Gurovich at 21 h 50 min. 🏆

Somewhere along the way, Walktober became something the UTEP community and beyond were checking, talking about, recruiting teammates for, and getting invested in. That was the best part. 🧡