You jus help me make my decision on the GOTR thing and it's a big FAT NO.GOTR: my daughter's experience turned her against running about as much
I SURE hope your Diane is able to influence those kids in a more positive way. Most of my daughter's volunteer coaches were non-runners or extremely casual runners who did nothing to give my child a positive attitude about any exercise, much less running.
You jus help me make my decision on the GOTR thing and it's a big FAT NO.
You need to let us know how it went-pleaseI just showed Scedastic's experience to Diane and she realizes what an important responsibility she is undertaking. Tomorrow is her 6 hour training session, I'm sure she will get a much better idea of what's involved and how much freedom she will have in tailoring her program for success.
Well, now that you put it that way I should reconsider then.Yeah but Dama I think what SCDT is saying is that the girls NEED someone like YOU to coach the program!
Wow, I sure hope she can make a difference. Until now the only thing I knew about the program was that at a race I ran a few years ago there was a special GOTR race afterwards. I had never heard of it before, and neither had Diane who accompanied me to that race.
I'm guessing that if they let her do her thing as far as training the girls it will be good, but if it's some lame pre-programmed thing that she just supervises who knows.
I can't picture her artificially trying to boost some kid's self esteem by congratulating them for walking half the race unless they suffered from a true physical disability. Hope it all works out for her and the kids!
I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist. I just get the idea that New Balance makes this a nice way to promote their shoes and to promote how they are helping the community or whatever. Maybe it was just the way the program was implemented in my area.
Our Core Values
Girls on the Run honors its core values:
- We are open-minded
Hmm. Looks like they may have failed on this one already . . .
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- We are tobacco and drug-free
does this mean they celebrate with some beer when they're done?
My wife Diane signed up this week to be a coach for her school's Girls on the Run program.
It will be part of the larger Greater Detroit group and over 1000 girls will participate in the 5K race following ten weeks of training.
Her school's principal is well aware that Diane is barefoot in her classroom, and has observed her in bare feet outdoors all day during field day as well as other activities. Still, Diane reminded her that she will be running and coaching barefoot just to be sure before putting in the time and effort towards the required coach's training with the larger group. Her principal's response was "That's fine".
I'm hoping all will go smoothly for a successful experience for all involved, but I'm just wondering if she'll get any flack from the training program leaders or parents of the kids.
I can almost imagine some kids wanting to run barefoot and telling their parents that the teacher/coach always runs without shoes. I'm wondering if there are any complaints if the organization will back up her preference or interfere with it.
Should be O.K., fits right into their mission statement:
http://www.gotrdetroit.org/about-girls-on-the-run/
Time will tell, I'll report on any news.
We'll see. Meeting's over at 4:00 p.m.