Take a hike breast cancer!
Will you join the challenge? From 1 to 31 May, Pink Ribbon organises the eleventh edition of The Pink Walk. Do your best to exercise more than usual every day during the month of May. This way, you will not only raise money for charity, but also take care of your own health. After all, a healthy lifestyle can lower the risk of breast cancer and prevent 1 in 3 cancer diagnoses.
Together we take the next step in the battle against breast cancer!
How does it work?
- Register via the Pink Walk platform. This can be done individually, as a team or with your company. Registration for The Pink Walk costs €12 per participant.
- Enter your steps. This can be done manually or by connecting your pedometer to the platform. (Garmin, Fitbit, Google Fit)
- Track your result on the scoreboards.
Together is more fun than on your own!
Don’t you agree? So encourage your friends, family and colleagues to participate. When registering, you can choose to participate in The Pink Walk as a team. Motivate your family, friends and loved ones to participate in The Pink Walk and find out who is the most passionate hiker!
Challenge your colleagues to exercise a little more!
Would you like to create a team with some colleagues? Maybe you could motivate your company to create one big corporate team. Or how about an internal competition between the HR and Marketing department? A fun opportunity to challenge each other to move a bit more in the month of May.
How do I support the charity?
You would like to support Pink Ribbon, but you're not much of a hiker? No problem, you can also use the platform to sponsor other participants for their kilometres walked. Find your friend, family member or colleague and choose an amount to donate. This way, you not only support your walking friend, but you also take the next step in the fight against breast cancer!
The October 2024 Pink Walk was a success! Will we do even better this year?
The tenth edition of The Pink Walk in October 2024 was a big success. With as many as 5.020 participants, we walked around the world 21 times! Hopefully we will be even more this edition and do a few more laps. Will you help achieve this result?
Benefits of walking
A one-hour walk a day is enough to reduce cancer risk by 14%. (*) Healthy eating and moderate exercise lowers the risk of decease for patients with colorectal and breast cancer. Moreover, the risk of relapse decreases significantly.
For those who are not fond of other sports, walking is even a dreamed alternative. If you don't know how to get started, turn to a walking coach. Pink Ribbon organises weekly Pink Ribbon walks in many places around the country. Check our website for walking groups near you (en link plaatsen)
Are you convinced yet of the benefits that daily walking has on your overall health?
Did you know that walking...
- Has a positive impact on your overall fitness?
- Strengthens your muscles and bones?
- Improves your stamina, making you less prone to fatigue?
- Increases blood flow to your brain, clearing your head, reducing stress, improving productivity and generating new creative ideas?
- Boosts your memory and concentration skills and thus can put a brake on dementia?
- Improves blood and oxygen supply to limbs and organs?
- Ensures you can maintain a healthy weight, combined with a healthy diet?
- Stimulates the production of endorphins (happiness hormone)?
- Improves your coordination and balance, reducing the risk of falling?
- Has a positive impact on your quality of life, sleep, mood and stress sensitivity?
- Offers good prevention against type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease?
- Reduces the total amount of cholesterol in your body?
- Affects your blood pressure in a beneficial way?
- For 15 minutes a day can increase life expectancy by 3 years?
(*) So says the US ‘Cancer Prevention Study’ that followed 73,615 post-menopausal women (mean age 62.7 years) for 17 years (1992-2009). The researchers saw a link between physical activity and a decrease in breast cancer risk. In fact, physically highly active women had a 25% lower risk of breast cancer. Based on their results, the researchers suggest that exercise has a beneficial impact on hormone levels, weight, sugar metabolism, insulin sensitivity and inflammation, all factors that play a role in the development of breast cancer after menopause.
