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Third Graders Work Toward Running 10 Miles
Amazement Square and Lynchburg Public Schools have partnered for their new "10th Mile" program, which is all about getting kids moving and fighting childhood obesity.
When teachers told the kids they'd be running 10 miles over the next few weeks, some kids said "no way!"
"I didn't think that was cool at all," third-grader Qrystian Harston said. When asked why, Harson said, "I don't know... I thought our legs would be broken by ten."
"I thought it would be a little too much at first, but its really not," third-grader Wililam Lewis said.
Lap by lap, these kids are logging nine miles over the course of a few weeks. And then running number 10 at the Amazing Kids Mile during the Virginia 10 Miler. Amazement Square and Lynchburg schools partnered for the project to get local kids active.
Movement Teacher at Linkhorne Elementary Alicia Taylor said, "So far, it's been an amazing program. The kids love to run. They come out, when I say 'the Amazing Mile,' they get smiles on their faces."
It's not just about running. It's about moving.
Diana Thompson at Amazement Square said, "They can do anything they want to record, they can be skipping, they can be walking, they can be jogging, they can do it with a friend, they can do it with their parents, they can do it alone."
It's about beginning a lifestyle and so far, parents are pleased.
"I've got wonderful phone calls from parents who say, you know my child was eating correctly at home, but they were missing the exercise component and this has really spurred them along with that," Thompson said.
"My dad is the one who usually comes to all our sports and he says he really likes it when we run because it shows more activity in ourselves," third-grader Victoria Reveley said.
And hopefully building lifelong habits.
"I think I'll be a track star one day," Harston said.
The project also works with third grade standards of learning. The students are not required to run the Amazing mile, just encouraged.
Amazement Square says LCA is also participating this year--next year they hope to get Campbell and Bedford schools involved too.
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