Girls on the Run of the Rockies

This week participants are completing their Community Impact Project and moving mountains together! 🏔️ Teams are dedicating a full practice to completing their Community Impact Projects. Community Impact Projects are important to Girls on the Run teams and help show the participants that can make a positive impact on their community! The skills they use to complete these projects together - teamwork, communication, negotiation, compromise, etc - go far beyond their season with Girls on the Run and help participants be better friends, siblings, students, neighbors, and more! ✨

📣Coach Posey and Coach Lemon reporting for duty! These paw-some coaches are here to give some tips so you are race day ready! ➡️Arrive early! It will be crowded, so allow time to find your group or check-in. ➡️Lay your clothes out the night before the race. Participants should wear their PURPLE Girls on the Run t-shirt. ➡️Eat a light breakfast! Give your body time to digest breakfast, about two or three hours before the race. Some great options are toast, cereal, or bananas. ➡️Drink water two hours before the start of the race. Don’t over-hydrate as it could cause cramping. ➡️Go to the restroom before the race starts. 🚨DENVER TEAMS: Runners will be released by waves (noted by a NUMBER on GOTR program participants’ bibs). Stay with your team and wait until your corral is called to move forward. Find your happy pace! Don’t go too fast. ✨Stretch, breathe, and have fun. You got this!

The Community Impact Project is meant to be completely driven by the team, so participants work together to think of small acts that they can all do to help their community shine. As a team, they will discuss the resources they have, the skills they have, and ultimately decide on how they will make an impact together. 💕 Stay tuned to see what these amazing teams do to help their community shine this season! 💡

Did you know that each season EVERY Girls on the Run team participates in a Community Impact Project that they design? This element of our curriculum is a local service project done by the teams to help their community shine brighter! ⭐️ To start, participants create a map to better understand who and what makes up their unique community. This map can include places like their local library and people like their cafeteria employees. Participants are learning to recognize how each unique person, place, and thing helps their community shine! ⭐️

“We Can! Power” is what happens when “I Can! Power” and teamwork come together!💪 Sometimes you need help to move a mountain and that’s when “We Can! Power” kicks in. In this lesson participants are learning and practicing how to best help their teammates when a challenge arises. Tag a friend that helps you move mountains! ❤️

“I feel…because…I would like”🤍 Sharing your feelings can be hard, but this powerful statement helps participants activate their “I Can! Power.” Participants are practicing using this statement to share their feelings. The more they practice, the more comfortable they will be using this statement! 🥰

The City of Denver requires events of our size to notify the neighborhood residents and businesses about our upcoming 5K event and WE NEED YOUR HELP! We are looking for 11 individuals or pairs to help us flyer routes that cover 1.5-2.5 miles on Saturday, November 2nd. Click here to sign up: https://lnkd.in/gDhVBnVM All volunteers get a t-shirt!

Have you ever had trouble choosing a friend? In this lesson, participants are learnIng strategies on how to choose friends that activate their “I Can! Power.” Participants will use these three qualities to help them determine a friendship… 🦄Friendship booster 🦄Friendship breaker 🦄Friendship tester Choosing friends can be a big mountain for participants to move, but now they have these strategies to help them decide if a friendship is right for them! 💜

It’s Practice 5K time! 🌟 This week teams are setting the goal of completing a 5K to gear up for the end of season celebration! For many of our participants, this is the first time going the total distance of a 5K, which is a huge accomplishment. The girls are using the tools that they’ve learned so far this season to activate their “I Can! Power” and propel them to the finish line. 🏁 Let’s cheer the participants on in the comments! 📣

Have you ever made an assumption about someone or something? 🤔 It’s pretty easy to judge a book by its cover, but participants are digging deeper to learn more about a person or idea to consider more than their first impression. Do you think digging deeper would help you in your life? 📚