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Marathon High program is a program that's designed
to help lower-income at risk kids
to get involved in an activity that will allow them to gain
physical fitness academic prowess and a sense of self-worth and
empowerment
they can't that they don't normally find many people in the Marathon High
program didn't fit
the jock mentality up their local junior high
are high school they didn't fit that mold because
they didn't look the part they didn't fit the mold because they didn't have
the disposition that put them in that sport
in the team activities or they had a tough home life that would not allow
them
to be able to do these kinds of activities we decided after watching
adult pop
our adult population successfully go from
in six months runningzero to two miles a week to running a
a full marathon distance we believe that a young people could do that
nap absolutely insane and probably with greater health
and read it better benefits but we really do hope that as we get more
volunteers and more interest in the program
they'll see that these young people not only are they getting absolutely
standard
their obesity levels are going down all their health metrics are getting much
much better
but they're performing significantly better in the classroom able to focus
and concentrate on a long-term much much better
and thirdly and most importantly that we're seeing
children impacting their parents children in packing their siblings
chilling in packing a community and their schools to being more physically
active
and there's absolutely nothing in this world that can
actually challenge them more than doing something for three to four hours at a
time
that they did by themselves on their found that there will and their intent
created this
outcome and let me tell you that is when the most amazing thing that we can give
young people today