by: Taylor Bailey (KWWL)

Hundreds of students were burning some energy this afternoon in a walk part of the Cedar Valley Blue Zones Project.

Students at Irving Elementary in Waterloo were "getting their walk on" in the Healthiest State Annual Walk. It was a hot afternoon, but students and staff at Irving were not letting that stop them from running around the football field. Staff and families dumped water on themselves to stay cool.

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