Healthy Kids Fun Run Mile - a just for fun event - is the day before the Marine Corps Marathon - the 'Best Marathon for Families'.
More than 800 smiling faces crossed the finish line at the youth fun run that accompanied the Big Sur Half Marathon in November
Ronald McDonald Charities has presented the Crim Fitness Foundation with a grant that will provide an additional 2,500 children with the successful Crim fitness program.
Kidsrunning.com webmaster and school teacher, Carol Goodrow, has developed a twenty week curriculum that includes running games and journal writing while encouraging elementary students of all abilities to become fit.
Marquee running events provide goal and structure to fight obesity epidemic.
Growth of youth running in road running events, schools and training programs
Adult Obesity Rates Rise in 37 States, Obesity Rates Now Exceed 25% in More Than Half of States
New line of children's running shoes features technologies similar to adult shoes.
Nine-time New York City Marathon winner Grete Waitz, chairwoman of the NYRRF Foundation, joined more than 200 NYRRF kids from five Harlem elementary schools for the 50th anniversary of the New York Road Runners.
The JUST RUN® youth fitness program boasts top grades and earns "extra credit" for reaching new milestones.