Five Tips for Staying Flare Free Over the Holidays

It’s that time of year, the Holidays. We always end up trying to figure out how to not end up in a flare. So, I asked some of my chronically-ill friends what they do or what best practices they would share with others. Avoid people It seems a little anti-social doesn’t it for such a […]

Walk Your AS Off World Arthritis Day 2016 – RECAP

The Walk AS One community stood tall this year to raise awareness for Ankylosing Spondylitis on World Arthritis Day 2016. Our teams walked 1,287,797 steps in ONE DAY to raise awareness for Ankylosing Spondylitis on World Arthritis Day, which was on October 12, 2016. Our Not-So-Silent auction raised the money we need to redo our […]

How I Walked My AS Off — Charlotte's Story of Climbing Mt. Fuji

I’d never given Mount Fuji a thought before I came to Japan. Even when I arrived here nearly a year ago it seemed a vague and unattainable thing; something merely depicted in art, pictures, and advertisements. Most of the people I asked about it had only seen the mountain from afar. Yet somehow the hair-brained […]

One 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 forward again. After the amazing 2014 year of Walk Your AS Off, a group of […]

15 Reasons To Never Give Up

Our amazing board has been taking a bit of a hiatus since Walk Your AS Off 2016. It takes an enormous amount of team effort to organize our walk each year and we do it with a very small team and virtually no budget. In an effort to get things rolling again, we are going […]

And the results are in! — This years stats

Congratulations steppers for crossing the finish line. You should all be very proud of yourselves. This is a run-down of the stats from this year’s walk. Now although Walk Your AS Off is an awareness event, and it’s not a race, we do like to keep track of how our teams are doing. Nothing wrong […]

Team Spotlight 2016: Torus Ankylosaurus

Our team, Torus Ankylosaurus, celebrated crossing the finish line on May 31st, 2016! This is our second annual WYASO celebration and it won’t be our last. We stuck with a blue and orange theme again for our celebration. (It’s hard to change it up, lol!) We had blue cheese burgers and blue claw crab, candied carrots, orange […]

Stars To Mars Step Stats – May 4th to May 15th

May 4rd to May 15th Step Stats Hello, everyone. We have been pretty busy here at Walk AS One, but we haven’t been neglecting our step stats. These are the team stats for May 4th to May 15th 2016. We have two weeks left to walk our AS off, and we want to hear from […]

Stars To Mars Step Stats April 2016 to May 3rd

April 1, 2016 to May 3rd Step Stats Hello, everyone. We have been pretty busy here at Walk AS One, but we haven’t been neglecting our step stats. These are the team stats for April 1st to May 3rd, 2016. 1st Place – 18,160,498 steps – AS Buzzers – Great Britain   2nd Place – […]

World AS Day in Taiwan with The Walking Spondies

Hi Everyone! My name is Carrie Kellenberger and I’m Team Captain of The Walking Spondies. I thought I’d take the time to update you all on what our team got up to on World AS Day, which is always held on the first Saturday of May each year. This year, World AS Day fell on […]