This season, we’re excited to be sharing a blog post outlining the curriculum for the first week of practices, from warm-up to cool-down! Each lesson has different topics, goals, and activities specifically designed to optimize the participants’ growth. For a detailed breakdown of each section of the lesson, check out this blog post! This week’s topics are: Our Mountain Mover Team and Recipe of Me! 

This season, we’re excited to be sharing a blog post outlining the curriculum for the first week of practices, from warm-up to cool-down! Each lesson has different topics, goals, and activities specifically designed to optimize the participants’ growth. For a detailed breakdown of each section of the lesson, check out this blog post! This week’s topics are: You Are Here and My Girl Wheel!

If you’re a caregiver or prospective coach who’s wondering what a typical Girls on the Run (GOTR) practice entails, look no further! In this blog post, we outline each step of a traditional GOTR lesson from warm-up to cool-down. Our curriculum is carefully designed to both teach valuable life skills and lessons to your girl and prepare her to succeed at the end-of-season 5K, and our trained coaches follow a specific practice plan to ensure that every girl has the best possible experience! 

If you’re a caregiver or prospective coach who’s wondering what a typical Heart & Sole (H&S) practice entails, look no further! In this blog post, we outline each step of a traditional H&S lesson from warm-up to cool-down. Our curriculum is carefully designed to both teach valuable life skills and lessons to your girl and prepare her to succeed at the end-of-season 5K, and our trained coaches follow a specific practice plan to ensure that every participant has the best possible experience! 

When Angela Bianco sat down to watch a Matoska International Elementary School basketball game, she unknowingly kicked off a ripple effect that would change both her life and the lives of many young girls. Angela, a fourth grade teacher at Matoska attending the game to support her students, happened to take a seat beside Kathleen Cannon, the executive director of Girls on the Run Minnesota. As they spectated, they struck up a conversation first about basketball, but the conversation slowly turned to the topic of Girls on the Run.

Allison Juda woke to the sound of her ringing alarm. Rolling over, she reached for her phone, the bright screen illuminated with the date: Sunday, October 1, 2023. The Twin Cities Marathon race day. 

We are so excited to share the next brand new, updated curriculum that we will be launching this spring 2025! Following up on last spring's debut of Hello, Superstar! which focuses on building confidence to be ourselves and love ourselves by activating our star power, in spring of 2025 we will be hosting our first season using the curriculum Hello, Mountain Mover! Throughout the season, teammates will focus on building confidence to do hard things and empower others around them to do so as well.

This is the second in a suite of three updated curricula with each new curriculum reinforcing core GOTR tools and skills and following a fun, empowering theme that builds different forms of confidence.

Georgia Ross smiled at her dad behind the camera as he hit the record button. Before her sat a music stand and a pile of sheet music. “Okay,” she said, “this is for Girls on the Run, and I guess Britney inspired me to do this song… so yeah.” Then, the nine-year-old girl launched into a self-written tune that would be played at countless coach training sessions, banquets and other Girls on the Run Minnesota events over the next decade.