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Wednesday Walker Spotlight – Ricky White of Team ENDURANCE for A.S.
Wednesday Walker Spotlight – Ricky by Chris Scott & Ricky White Hello Walkers!! This week’s Spotlight Walker is Team Endurance for AS, Ricky White. Ricky comes to us from the UK. Here is...
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Finding Steps In All Kinds Of Places!
by Sabrina Diane Throughout this walk I’ve pushed myself out of my comfort zone to spread awareness and gather steps on a whole new level. AKA Harassing friends and family and now even strangers to...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – There Is More Going On Here
Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – by Sara Sheibley Doctor’s bills? Yes we got ‘em. (To the tune of $695 and that’s only the bills I have.) Copays? They kill us. (I can’t even see some doctors because I don’t have...
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Wednesday Walker Spotlight – Sara Sheibley a.k.a. Our Sara Tiara!
Wednesday Walker Spotlight – Sara by Chris Scott & Sara Sheibley Hello Walkers!! Week 7 is in the bag and what a week it was! I want to welcome all of the new folks that have climbed on board to...
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Let’s Finish STRONG – Only TEN Days to go!
Can you believe it? We’ve been walking together for 55 days! I know we can start to get weary at this point – but I also know that since we are ASers (both literally & in spirit) and because of our...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – Tell Everyone!
Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – by Sara Sheibley in·vis·i·ble /inˈvizəbəl/ Adjective: Unable to be seen; not visible to the eye. (Pretty easy to understand right?) Here is a picture of me being invisible....
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Wednesday Walker Spotlight – Kinsella
Wednesday Walker Spotlight – Kinsella by Chris Scott Hello Walkers!! We are down to the wire, and are just about ready to touch down on the moon!! We need everybody to really kick in those steps so...
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Sabrina’s Daily Dose – Exercise
Sabrina’s Daily Dose: Exercise I hear many Spondylitis patients say all the things they can’t do regarding exercise. Now I’m not going to dispute that there are days exercise is physically not possible...
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Sabrina’s Daily Dose: Hiking and Pilates/Yoga
Sabrina’s Daily Dose: Hiking and Pilates/Yoga —When I walk I stick to natural trails. They are easier on my feet and back. I invested in solid waterproof (Reynaud’s) hiking shoes that have foam...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – Where We Go From Here
It was a dark and stormy night…. That’s how a good story starts right? No? Awe nuts. I’ve been thinking things over for a few days, well actually a week or so… Here we are at week 10. THIS is it....
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Coloring Page – Walk Your A.S. Off Sneaker
We are almost there! Just a couple more days and our walk comes to an end for the year. Let’s get the kids involved in our Finish Line events on World A.S. Day! Please download this image and share...
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Join Us For World A.S. Day & Our Step Total Announcement!
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Million Stepper – Kelly Warner!
My name is Kelly Warner. I am deaf and 43 years old , married to a wonderful husband of 14 years, who is also deaf. Just months before my marriage, I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. The...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – I’m Here, Aren’t You?
Wait… What? Yes I’m here, aren’t you? What do you mean I shouldn’t be? Just because the walk is over doesn’t mean we don’t have things to talk about. I mean if you want I can go away… No? Okay. (Yes...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – Just A LITTLE Black Rain Cloud???
Rain Rain Go Away… Someone please explain this to me? Why do they give this day a 3? I’d give it a… I don’t know… 10! Rain = aches. Knees, elbows, lower back, mid-back, upper back, shoulders, that...
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Announcing A T-Shirt Design Contest For 2014!
We are gearing up for Walk Your A.S. Off 2014! In preparation for this years walk we’d like to have your help & creativity with a t-shirt design contest. Show us your design skills – the winning...
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Calling All Aussies
We know you are out there! Walk Your A.S. Off has had many walkers from Australia participate – we’d really love a TEAM AUSTRALIA! Please email walkyourASoff@gmail.com if you’d like to be a part of...
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Walk Your A.S. Off has their sights set on MARS!
Walk Your A.S. Off announces the largest endeavor to date – a continuation of their steps into the unknown and a place no one has ventured. Thousands of people with the chronic disease Ankylosing...
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Vote NOW! 2014 WYASO T-Shirt Designs
Please vote for your favorite 2014 Walk Your A.S. Off t-shirt design! Voting is open until 11:59 pm February 11th, 2014. You vote by Facebook by using the like button on the individual design page...
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ASIF Endorses Walk Your A.S. Off!
ASIF (Aknylosing Spondylitis International Federation) endorses Walk Your A.S. Off. ASIF was established in 1988 to increase public awareness of Ankylosing Spondylitis and to disseminate knowledge of...
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Walk Your A.S. Off Welcomes the Ankylosing Spondylitis Association of Ireland!
The Ankylosing Spondylitis Association of Ireland (ASAI) joins Walk Your A.S. Off with team SUAS! According to Seoirse Smith, the Secretary of ASAI and president of the Ankylosing Spondylitis...
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Our 2014 Booster T-Shirt Has Been Selected!
Walk Your A.S. Off is thrilled to announce the winning design in our 2014 t-shirt contest! Congratulations to Melissa Levanduski – great job!!! “This t-shirt contest was an artistic outlet for me to...
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Paws For Our Cause
We have had a number of our walkers ask us if we could include their dog in our walk! The answer was, “of course” but then I learned that people wanted to count the steps of their furry friends and...
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5 Days to Starting Line And 5 Reasons To Walk With Us!
Is everyone gearing up for our 2014 Walk Your A.S. Off! Just five days to our starting line for 2014! If you needed more reasons to give your friends & family to join us and walk – well here are...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – Go Time!
Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – by Sara Sheibley And away we go! Go go go! Where are we headed? This is Mars, the red planet. Pretty huh? This is also this year’s destination. Well… Our ten year destination....
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Walker Spotlight – Carrie Moebus
Wednesday Walker Spotlight – by Chris Scott & Carrie Moebus Hey Walkers!! I’m happy to see that this year’s walk is off to a huge start. Some of the numbers that I have seen posted are unbelievable...
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Team Spotlight – A Bunch of A.S. Kickers
Team Spotlights – by Joyce Lameire A Bunch of AS Kickers was formed by Joyce Lameire out of New Mexico. She decided to get some of her co-workers to help her get some steps in order to make it to the...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – Don’t Ignore Those Nagging Pains!
Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – by Sara Sheibley We all perceive pain differently. Some of us also fit nicely on that little pain scale in the doctor’s office… (Although 1 looks a little too happy) And some of...
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Wednesday Walker Spotlight – Gail Wright
Wednesday Walker Spotlight – by Chris Scott & Gail Wright Happy Wednesday everyone!! What a bunch of steppers!! The numbers I’ve seen rolling in are amazing!! We have almost walked around the world...
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Team Spotlight – Walking Tall and Wright
Team Spotlight – Walking Tall and Wright by Joyce Lameire Meet Gail Wright. She decided to form a team for WYASO because “I was diagnosed with AS in February. Upon receiving my diagnosis I started...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – Hitting Our Stride
Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – by Sara Sheibley Here we are at and a lot of us are hitting our stride, figuring out pedometers and just simply WALKING! Isn’t this exciting??? Okay so our feet may not be...
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Team Spotlight – BeLEIGHve
Team Spotlights – by Joyce Lameire Team Spotlight BELEIGHVE Meet Leigh Costello! Leigh started her walk team because “I want to help raise awareness for AS that goes beyond my family and friends.”...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – We Live, We Learn, We Go On…
Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – by Sara Sheibley Sometimes I should really pay attention to my own words. I type them, I read them yet I don’t heed them. This is how the story often goes, but this time I did...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – We’re Walkers!
Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – by Sara Sheibley Lots of things are great as a half… That half a sandwich and a cup of soup deal, half of an oreo cookie, a half dollar… Now here we are at the half way...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – The Rewards Of Not Giving Up!
I spent most of Sunday on my butt and whilst there I was hemming and hawing over what to write. I mean, I feel like I need to give 5 days of thought, 1 day to chill about it and about an hour to...
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Team Spotlight: A.S. – Standing Tall Together
Team Spotlight – A.S. Standing Tall Together by Joyce Lameire Meet Michelle Fitch. Michelle decided to do a walk team with her co captain Colleen Vasquez for their support group they run on Facebook...
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A Message From Jennifer Visscher On Our 2014 Walk
I’m not sure how to begin this but I’ve pondered it for too long so – here we go… Dear Walk Participants, I want to apologize to everyone for not being as involved in the walk this year as you all...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – Step Conversions
This week has been rough due to a lot of personal stuff going on but on the good side all this running here and there did lead to a pretty awesome step count week. Thanks to loads of activity with...
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Step Totals – Week 1 Through Week 6
What an amazing job everyone! Here’s the break down: Total: 341,341,683 People: 330,649,767 Paws: 10,691,916 Let’s finish strong! We’re averaging around 63 million steps per week which is just...
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Tiara’s Tuesday Talk – Walk on brave soldiers, WALK ON!
I recently opened the website for this very walk and saw “walking to raise awareness” because that is all that fit in the tiny window of my mini-computer. Of course the end says “of Ankylosing...
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Monday Motivation – Our Teammates
Hello everyone – Jenna here! I am writing this week’s Monday Motivation (ok… on Tuesday) for Heather because she isn’t feeling so great unfortunately. Please send her some good vibes – & a comment...
View ArticleOur World AS Day Events & Comittment
For our third year of Walk Your A.S. Off we decided that we had to become “Champions of World AS Day” since we have our finish line every year on this important day. Also since we are a worldwide walk...
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2014 Walk Your A.S. Off – Step Announcement
What an amazing year we’ve had! We are well on our way to Mars now walkers and it is all thanks to you – every person who took even one step towards our goal. Thank you. Thank you to all of our team...
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How The Numbers Stack Up
After circling the globe, then reaching the moon, we have headed off towards worlds unknown – MARS! We haven’t shared much how big this goal actually happens to be – honestly we were afraid to freak...
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We’re Walking For World Arthritis Day – October 12, 2014!
Walk Your A.S. Off will be walking on World Arthritis Day! We will be helping raise awareness of all forms of Spondylitis on October 12, 2014 by counting our steps for the day. Our steps help us reach...
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New Dates For Walk Your A.S. Off 2015!
Hey walkers! For our die hard walkers – get ready for some changes coming this year that I think will shake some things up, focus the participation into various areas, and allow us to draw more...
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Welcome New Walk Blogger Nicole Maher
Teams are beginning to register for our 2015 spring event and the weather seems to be getting better for many. As we prepare for our fourth year we are looking for bloggers to post about our walk,...
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Let’s Set Some Goals!
Hello WYASO Warriors! I’m thrilled to see what a great start we have for our 2016 spring season! The awareness that is happening in the AS community for AS Awareness month is stellar this year. There...
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And the 2015 Walk AS One World Cup Goes To…
What a year we’ve had! Congratulations to our first ever winners of the Walk AS One World Cup! Going forward we will hone in on our categories for these recognition awards as we get better at...
View ArticleOne step forward!
This past year I have felt that I’ve continually taken one step forward and two steps back. The optimist in me hates to be thinking this way but sometimes we have to own it and acknowledge it to move...
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