WOW! What an fantastic group we have for Girls on the Run! Our first session was by all accounts a huge success! We started right on time – a big kudo’s to our parents for getting the sleepy heads out of bed and to school earlier than normal!
We spent the first part of our session introducing ourselves using a descriptor that matched our personalities. Want to know who is with us this season? Let’s see if I can recall of our names:
- Brianna, the entertainer
- Mercedes, the marvelous
- Martina, the magnificent
- Halley, the horse freak
- Julia, the jumper
- Erin, the quiet
- Samantha, the smiley
- Carolyn, the cat
- Kylin, the Kangaroo
- Madison, the monkey
- Shannon, the sweetheart
- Coach Connie, the clown
- Coach Tanya, the terrific
- Coach Bill, the bombastic
After introductins, we warmed up a bit with a game. If the girls agreed with statements made by Coach Tanya, they ran all the way to Coach Bill and back to the line. We found out who had pets, who had siblings, who liked the Redskins, who liked the Steelers (we have a lot of Steeler fans), who liked to run, who liked basketball, who liked Hanna Montana, who liked the Jonas Brothers, who liked chocolate chip cookies, who like to clean their room, as well as a bunch of other likes/dislikes. The girls had a lot of fun expressing their interests, and even offered their own statements (like who likes pasta!)
After some dynamic stretching, we played yet another running game. Earlier during introductions, the girls wrote the name of each girl on a separate label. While we ran our laps, the girls chased each other to place the labels on their new friends’ backs. This reinforced everyone’s names while taking their mind off of running. Without knowing it, our girls ran about ½ mile while they sped around the blacktop.
If the laughter level was any indication, today was a bit hit!
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