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| The Burns Park Run - kids and runners MAKING A DIFFERENCE! | ||
| May 1, 2011, 8:30am | ||
| Walk and Talk - it gets our kids out there! | REGISTER! Run for Charity! Volunteer Sponsors | |
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Walk and Talk is a PTO program that encourages exercise and fitness. It is held in the fall and the spring, with the spring goal being to walk/run in the Burns Park Run as a part of the Burns Park Walk and Talk team. Each team member gets a special t-shirt to wear on race day. The program starts around the first day of spring about six weeks before the BPR. Kids can spend their lunch-time recess on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday walking/running laps around the park to train for the run. The “course”, which is one third of a mile, is marked by cones. Parent volunteers help by marking the kid’s laps on cards. Daytime parent volunteers are the key to the program's success. Small plastic feet, nick-named toe-tags, are awarded for various achievements and worn by the kids on their shoes laces. Mileage awards include a small toe-tag after each three mile completion, a large toe-tag every twelve miles, and a glow-in-the-dark toe-tag after fifteen miles. We get toe tags from Fitness Finders: 1-800-789-WALK or www.fitnessfinders.net. Shirts are designed in art class and could potentially be shared by other schools, depending on the design. Our PTO pays for the Burns Park Walk and Talk shirts.  Mini-Martian Marathon! Log 26.2 miles in the weeks leading up to the Burns Park Run and receive a special Martian Medal from the PTO for this great program from Running Fit! Sign up online at this link: Mini-Martian Signup (Burns Park kids only - others must work through their own school.) Download a log sheet here: MM Log Sheet. Instructions for parents are found here: MM Instructions 2010. |
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Below is a link to the 2008 Burns Park Run and Walk and Talk Google calendars: BP Walk and Talk 2010 Calendar In order to participate in the Burns Park Run run as a team member, the kids need to do at least three laps on two of the three days during each week in the spring. They will also have to be registered separately for the run. To receive a Walk and Talk t-shirt and run the BPR with our Walk and Talk team, a paper permission form must be completed and turned in at the office by April 24th - OR you can fill out a Burns Park Run permission form online here: If you have a child at Burns Park School, please consider signing them up for Walk and Talk - and volunteer if you have time! Walk and Talk takes place between 11:15am and 1:15pm. Sign up for time slots by using the following form: Walk and Talk Volunteer Signup Form Also, if your school is interested in our Walk and Talk program, please email us! |
"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them." - Lady Bird Johnson |
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