So what's been going on? Lots actually
First off, thrilled to say that Teens Run Yonkers has its first ever home - Starting June (something - depending on when the furniture arrives), we'll have our office at 500 Nepperhan Avenue. This is exciting and looking forward to having some space for 1) wonderful volunteers that are helping us and 2) all the "stuff" we've accumulated from doing the program. This includes plenty of t-shirts (from 2010, 2011, and 2012), water bottles (with the original website on them), Clif Bars, Medals, Trophies and various other soon to be Teens Run Yonkers vintage items - ebay awaits! Anyway, a big thank you to Groundwork Hudson Valley that has been both our fiscal sponsor and host for the last year while we formalized and legalized the stuff we were doing.
From the program side, lots of nice news there too. Yonkers Middle High School has been doing a great job and are tracking towards a 10K as their next milestone race. Also, happy to share that we started with a great group of students from Gorton High School a few weeks ago. These are fantastic teens that are wonderful to work with - enthusiastic, committed and looking to do big things. And I have no doubt that they will!
On a personal running note, while I haven't been checking as often as I was before, realized today that my running streak is a at 188 days. Not sure what I'm going for exactly but feel like 220 days would be a good next milestone. If you recall, originally started by going for 110 days - it would be very cool to double it! One of the things that's been helping me out is I've been using the run walk run method made popular by Jeff Galloway - it's actually helped my pacing and with running every day, very helpful in building in some recovery time.
FInally - really finally - if you know any runners in the Westchester area that can make a commitment to helping teens, please send them our way. We now are working with three schools and will be starting our program with one of our partners from last summer. We need good people - caring is more important than running, by the way. If you want more info on us, please go to www.teensrunyonkers.org
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