Where and when do YOU run??

100 Milers walking with their Principal and Assistant Principal!  Make time to walk with your kids as much as possible!  It makes a BIG difference!

Where and when do YOU run??


Make sure to ask yourself what your running opportunities will "look like" throughout the year. Don't worry too much about getting everything going perfectly from the get-go, just go for it. Try different things and times:

It is our hope that kids will have an opportunity to log miles throughout the day, with their teacher, and during part of their p.e. time, but many schools supplement that time with optional opportunities to log miles.

If I took you to 10 different schools, you would see 10 very different schedules. Here are a few examples of how schools supplement their classroom 100 Mile Club® time:

Morning runs. Even during the 10-15 minutes before school, you can allow kids to eek out a mile or so. Go longer if you want...many do!!

Recess and lunch time. You can teach your noon-duty supervisors to encourage kids to earn miles at lunchtime or recess. It gives some kids something to do...especially those who tend to just walk around anyway. They can walk and talk with theirn friends and esrn miles at the same time!!

After school. Sure, you can do this, too. Follow it up with a Homework Club or something. :)

Family Fun Runs! This can be a whole article! Gather one evening a trimester at school to all log miles together! Have a restaraunt come in to sell healthy meals and they will donate a portion of the proceeds back to your school. It's fun!!

Weekenders! Yes, we do have groups that meet on the weekends. There is one group that heads out on a hike up a local mountain every Saturday! As long as the whole school is invited, go for it!

Family Picnic and 100 Mile Club® Night!! 

I hope your creative juices are flowing...just know that:

(1) there are many many ways to make this a success,

(2) there is no wrong way to do 100 Mile Club® as long as you stick to the mission and philosophy, and

(3) do what is most comfortable for you and your site.

(4) If your schedule is NOT working, tweak it. Learn from your mistakes and move forward...always.

(5) If you are not having fun, you are doing it wrong.  :)

Really. It's that simple. :)

At the top of Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside, CA with Longfellow Superstars!

PENNY VOTE 2011!

So, what's our new tee shirt color?? Remember, every year ALL 100 Mile Club schools and groups have the same color shirt. We do this for very specific reasons...

READ ABOUT IT HERE.

What started as a simple way to cast a few votes and have a little fun picking our next tee shirt color quickly evolved into a massive Penny Vote Tour. As with most things 100 Mile Club-related, what started as a fun and silly idea, backed up with with lots of passion and energy ended up HUGE and taking over everything!! This was true once again with The Penny Vote.

Jared Walker, a former 100 Mile Club participant and very busy IB student at a local middle school, volunteered to lead the charge. It was a great service project for him! Jared set up a booth at Walk for Kids in 2009 and collected pennies in these cool vortex-topped water bottles:

The vortexes were all Jared's idea, and were soooooo cool!! This year, the Penny Vote Spirit continued, led this time by students at JFK High School in Norco, CA.

Color choices for 2010-11 were as follows (l to r) :

• Hunter green with white
• Royal Blue with white
• Turq with white
• Gold with navy

The kids (and adults!) had a ball watching the pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, and even dollars go round and round and plop in to the color of their choice. klink! klink! klinklink! The coins kept coming...

These funny-looking (but fun!) Penny Vote containers travelled all over Southern California, and kids, parents, and friends all cast their votes with spare change. All the while, our collection boxes were getting heavier and heavier. Yay!!

This year, the coins were hand-counted...proceeds benefitted our student sponsorship fund. 

Are you ready?? After all was said and done, the results are:

• Hunter green with white: $14.79
• Turq with white: $132. 30
• Gold with navy: Zero (it was accidentally left behind at the initial Walk for Kids vote, and never made it back in...oops  O_o )
• Royal with white: $72.92

TOTAL COLLECTED: $220.01 WOW! (This was mostly pennies, by the way.) That's 22 KIDS!!  FULLY SPONSORED!!

So, our new 100 Mile Club® tee shirt color for 2009-10 is:

Turquoise with white!!

Thank you to everyone who voted this year! This just goes to show you that if everyone gives just a little, we can make a BIG difference.

100 Mile Club® Kids: Join us August 1st at 3:00 at DosLagos!!

The flyer above explains a little about this really cool thing happening on August 1st, right here in Corona!!

A group of soldiers are riding their bicycles from the east coast to the west coast, and ending their ride at Dos Lagos, on August 1, at approximately 3pm. Our goal is to have 100 or more enthusiastic kiddos and family members greeting these soldiers as they finish this 3,000 mile bike ride. They are riding to raise awareness and money for the Wounded Warrior Project. You can view their website at http://www.pedalinwithapurpose.com/.

It's a very worthy cause, and our goal is to have people cheer them on as they cross this finish line. We will even have some cold yummy water, and flags to wave. Join us!!  Wear your 100 Mile Club tee and show your pride!!

Lights, Camera, ACTION!

Would you (yes, YOU) be willing to have us come in to your room or school to film how YOU keep track of miles? Not the kids, just you and your bulletin board, sticks, stamps, clips, etcetc.


I have found that many teachers new to 100 Mile Club® really need to hear and SEE all of the different and wonderful ways teachers keep everyone "on track".

I want our new teacher-coaches to know:

(1) that there are many many ways to keep accurate track of miles,

(2) there is no wrong way to keep track and

(3) to do what is most comfortable for them...

Email us at info at 100 mile club dot com if you are interested...or fwd this to a teacher-coach at your site who is fabulous. We'd love to film as many ways as we can!

On This Day

This tapestry hung in my Uncle Son and Aunt Dina's offices (Uncle Son's real name was John, but his mother, my maternal GREAT Grandmother, called him Son...therefore UNCLE SON was always his name. I called my Grandfather by his first name but that's a whole different story) for as long as I can remember.  I grew up reading it whenever I'd sneak in there to read or play. Today, it hangs in MY office, which is just as cluttered as his but not nearly as interesting.

Here is what it says:

Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.


Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more.


Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.

--- Author Unknown

Round ONE: The Early Bird Gets Some Sponsorships.

Our Pepsi Refresh Project Grant, combined with  funds raised at our 2010 Walk for Kids is allowing us to do great things for our schools!  So far, we have allocated 929 Inventive Packages to schools who have registered early for our 100 Mile Club 2010-11 Cycle.  The qualifications were simple this round:  Be a returning school, OR be the first school in a new district where we currently do not have any 100 Mile Clubs. 

Our next round of sponsorships will arrive in mid-August, BUT in order to qualify, you must be registered and participating.  The application process will be completed all online, saving paper, trees, and valuable organization funds.  It is the goal of The 100 Mile Club to continue in the direction of a paperless office (we have a way to go, but we are on the road!). 

Welcome to the following schools so far!  Get your school registered and LET'S MOVE!!

Barton ES CNUSD

Cascade Christian/Puyallup, WA

CFIS CNUSD

Colony HS/CJUHSD

Condit ES CUSD

Corona HS CNUSD

Corona Ranch ES CNUSD

Creek View ES MVSD

Eastvale ES CNUSD

El Rodeo School/BHUSD

Fitzgerald Elementary/Rialto USD

Foothill ES CNUSD

Foothill Knolls SBCSS

Franklin CNUSD

Franklin ES RUSD

Garretson ES/CNUSD

Good Knight Child Empowerment Network, MD

Harada ES/CNUSD

Highland ES CNUSD

Jefferson ES CNUSD

Kids-a-Part VTCAS, VT
Lakeview Intermediate, Stow, OH
Longfellow ES LBUSD

Longfellow ES RUSD

McKinley ES BurbankUSD
McKinley ES CNUSD

Newman ES ChinoUSD

Orange ES CNUSD

Parkridge ES CNUSD

Rodriguez Prep-SBUSD

Shackelford ES/ModestoUSD

Sky Country ES JUSD

St Peter and St Paul Pre/K

Susan B. Anthony/CNUSD

Temecula ES/TVUSD

TemescalValley ES CNUSD

Todd ES CNUSD

Tuscany Hills ES/LEUSD

Vail Ranch MS TVUSD

Washington ES/CNUSD

It is NEVER too late to get started...in fact you are still early! Click here to register your school today!!

Visit http://www.letsmove.gov/ for more information. We are on the right track...pun intended!

A Special 100 Mile Club® Kickoff Assembly at Rosa Parks Elementary

Today was an incredible day. When did it become a daily occurrence that I have the honor and privilege of meeting people like Dan Benintendi? Sometimes when I get home at night, I ask myself, Did that just happen?  Is this really happening?  It IS!!

Two years ago, Dan weighed 400 pounds. Today, he is an ULTRAendurance athlete. He shared his story with some of our kids today at our 100 Mile Club® Kickoff Assembly at Rosa Parks Elementary.

  

"My goal is to restore a sense of hope, a feeling of self-worth, and a strong sense of accomplishment through every small trial or obstacle that is overcome by these wonderful children. If we can give them their pride, dignity, and self-worth back, we have a much greater chance of allowing them to gain their health back. Please, help restore hope to these children, help donate to a cause that is worth-while, and be a part of something that could change the lives of future generations to come." Dan Benintendi

The 100 Mile Club® Project has helped me connect with SO many people who see the true value in helping our kids become happy, healthy, and connected through attainable and personal physical fitness goals. I am humbled and honored each and every day...and I am having the time of my life!

Thank you, Dan, for visiting our kids today. Thank you for sharing your journey. Most importantly, though, thank you for taking care of yourself and showing our kids that ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

Follow Dan at http://www.swimfromobesity.com/ or http://www.trimywill.com/ .

Jazzercise with the Stars!!

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

~Brian Tracy~

On June 5, 2010, a team of fearless 100 Mile Club® runners, coaches, and I left our comfort zones to raise funds for The Foundation for Community and Family Health's Breast Health Detection Program. Our team led one song in this special 60-minute Jazzercise class...Walk the Dinosaur!! Great job, everyone!!

It was the longest 3 minutes of my life, I think.  Thank you to my team for making it on a Saturday morning and doing something new. That's what it's all about.  :::clap-clap::

California State PTA Convention 2010 Pedometer Challenge Results!

The 2010 100 Mile Club CAPTA team from l to r: 

Patricia Hartson, BJ Walker, Kara Lubin, Dot Lubin, Tara Mackie

If you turned in your pedometer at CAPTA Convention 2010, your 100 Mile Club® Pedometer Challenge miles are listed here. Can you find yours?  PTA Convention this year was a BLAST (and I thought we had fun LAST year!). 

Remember the feeling you had when you brought your pedometer back to us to share your miles? Everyone who came to the booth had the. biggest. smiles. on their faces! You guys were all soooo cute! That feeling you felt when you came back to see us is very much the same feeling your kids will get when they participate in 100 Mile Club®. (Though the kids'smiles are WAY bigger!!) That pride makes it all worth it...


Here are the pedometer steps exactly as reported to us:

10000 15305 12000 15005 11000 12621 12008

10200 12220 12000 10281 11000 14334 12679

10097 12240 10809 10281 11000 1679 11030

10750 12230 10537 10118 6697 15285 10479

15339 14672 16401 10118 7000 10524 10000

16295 11000 13000 20708 22795 15000 11715

7864 11000 10319 10604 12210 16285 13825

10151 18096 10500 22000 12500 22871 6142

13361 4500 10500 15000 20481 22871 8500

10000 3421 4500 2730 2397 6000 6173

10000 4391 14562 9335 11111 7000 14000

18499 6397 2164 4000 11932 9000 6000

10581 15000 1962 9653 2565 15973 10000

1000 10800 12174 6000 2565 10137 11715

17457 811 14527 17981 13000 15470 13825

14406 3406 17830 10974 8372 13327 29916

14406 10127 10316 17981 7833 9754 10000

11082 10000 7998 10974 9512 22000 36290

1100 10081 7998 10000 10099 35269 12016

14199 10568 10218 15341 7218 16205 10000

14199 18479 11109 15597 7738 19488 17472

15638 12000 11109 12000 5000 19488 11500

9472 13626 10444 11036 7540 10400 8439

3745 10759 11000 12580 4287 21482 13000

13642 7000 15964 12000 13000 11061 12000

10376 11500 15000 13500 10158 41000 12000

12748 12000 12151 10491 10000 10629

12402 11000 11127 11000 10204 10000

All told, the fabulous ladies and gentlemen of CAPTA '10 walked...

1196.118 MILES!!!

That is over 250 more miles than CAPTA 2009!  Yay, you!! We hope you will consider Accepting the 100 Mile Club® Challenge at your school in 2010.  The registration form is right here: CLICK! :)

Print it.
Fill it out.
Fax it in.
And you're IN!!

Then, just go for it!  We are here for you.

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