Girls on the Run

For all my runner friends or family, for moms of girls, for people who care about loving and raising girls, for people who ever thought about putting on a pair of running shoes, and for those who do run and know how it feels...this post is for you.  For the past two months Rynn and I have been participating in a club at her school called Girls on the Run.  It is a nation wide non-profit that uses running as a means of encouraging girls to be strong, confident, and kind.  On June 1st we will join 14,000 other girls and their running buddies to run a 5K in downtown Chicago. It is the largest 'girl-focused' race in the country.  Yesterday, we held a little mock 5K around the school to practice.  Here are some of the photos...

I got the fun job of handing out some swag

 to help the girls mark their mileage.

Go, Rynn, Go!!

  Confident Girls who just finished a run most of them didn't think they could do.

 Sometimes we all need to hear...

  So get on out there for a run.

You go, girl.