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February Week 1:

Your kickoff assembly should occur sometime this week! Get the kids pumped up to run!

February Week 2:

Students should be registering at home and registering at school now that the introductory letter has been sent home and the kickoff assembly has occurred. Keep up with your spreadsheet of participants by adding kids who have registered, noting whether you have received their registration or been told that they have done it online, and noting if they have paid in the “paid” column. Note their t-shirt size in the appropriate column. Give each child a running log if they did not download one online.

Students need to start keeping track of their miles. This process will need to be explained in detail during P.E. class or any other appropriate time. Examples are helpful!  This is only one way of logging miles.  Use whatever system works for your school.

Each participant will send in a WEEKLY MILEAGE UPDATE (WMU-AIU) each week to the school marathon coordinator telling them how many outside of school miles they have completed for that week and how many miles total they have on their log. These will be due every Friday.

Every Tuesday, the school marathon coordinator will send each participant an ADD IT UP (WMU-AIU) sheet telling them how many miles they have from PE and from Walking Club that week (if your school has these opportunities available to get miles). This is not necessary if your students do not have the opportunity to log miles at school.

The student is responsible for adding the miles they have completed at school to the mileage they have completed outside of school and log this total on their Running Log.

The process then starts again. The student will send in a new Weekly Mileage Update (due Friday) showing their total miles and the miles they have added that week outside of school. There are a lot of good math skills involved in this!

The coordinator needs to update their spreadsheet each week with the child's total mileage up to that point. Keeping track of mileage is a big job and may be handed off to another faculty member or parent volunteer. Keeping track of mileage helps keeps kids accountable as well as allows them to be recognized for reaching milestones in their goal.

February Week 3 and 4:

Continue collecting WMU's and sending out AIU's. Continue updating your spreadsheet, collecting money and registrations, and adding miles to the spreadsheet.

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