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Race sign up is open! Volunteers needed!

The Healthy Kids Running Series will start April 22 and will run for 5 consecutive Sunday evenings at Hoffman Park.

Quick facts:
-The series consists of 5 races, all on Sunday evenings. No other commitment is required.
-You may run one race ($10) or all five races ($35)
-HKRS is a non profit 501 (c) (3) organization
-We welcome boys and girls ages Pre-K (2 years old) through 8th Grade
-Race lengths are 50 Yd dash - 1 Mile
-At the end of the Series the top boy and girl receive a trophy

To register or sign up as a volunteer: http://bit.ly/HKRSRiverFalls

River Falls, WI - Healthy Kids Running Series Spring 2018 Dates: Sundays, April 22nd, 29th, May 6th, 13th, & 20th Time: 4:00-5:00PM *Please arrive 45 minutes early if you have not pre-registered or if you have not picked up your race bag at Race bag Pick-up Night. We will do our best to

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What's important for youth sports nutrition?

Fueling Up for Sports | Bare Wooden Spoon Providing opportunities to help you achieve your health, fitness, and nutrition goals.

Keep the momentum going all year. Check out Healthy Kids Running Series - River Falls and Powered On Will! If you are in the River Falls area, contact us about the new Mighty Milers before and after school!

Exercise Their Minds - Voices For Healthy Kids Protect Physical Education The benefits of physical education (PE) ring clear as a school bell. With PE, we can keep kids’ hearts healthy and their minds in gear to do their best at school. The fact is, active kids learn better. And the benefits don’t end there. Physical education has positive impac...

Classes start SOON!! Register today!

Have you ever wanted to try running but feel overwhelmed by the process? Have you wished for a supportive, non-competitive environment to learn running? Try out Community Education's 8-week 5k program, Fun Run 3.1 with instructor Taren Weyer!
(includes registration for Kinni Trout Trot 5k on Sept. 9)
Register here: https://goo.gl/Uv3t9Z

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Want your meals delivered ready to freeze? Now you can! Check out this month's offerings! https://www.barewoodenspoon.com/shop/

May Meals Delivered to You! Pick your meals and we will package, freeze, and deliver right to your door.

Thank you River Falls Community Education and Allina Neighborhood Health Connections for the opportunity!

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This day in history...

In honor of the 121st Boston Marathon today, we're celebrating Roberta (Bobbi) Gibb, who broke the famous race’s nearly 70-year-old gender barrier on April 19, 1966, finishing the race in 3 hours, 21 minutes, and 40 seconds -- faster than two-thirds of the male runners! Reflecting on her breakthrough run, Gibb said: “I just fell in love with [the marathon] because I knew these people felt the same way about running I felt... I thought: If I can run the marathon and run it well, it will break down the stereotypes that have been used to keep women confined.”

After being told that she was too pretty to apply to medical school -- “I would upset the boys in the lab,” she said -- Gibb decided to request an entry form for the 1966 Boston Marathon. To her shock, her request was refused: Amateur Athletic Union regulations forbid women from running more than 1.5 miles, and besides, “women are physiologically incapable of running 26.2 miles” she was told. But Gibb, who regularly ran for hours -- as many as 40 miles at a time -- knew that was wrong. So on race day, she covered her hair with a blue hoodie, and hid behind a bush near the starting line until she could blend into the pack. She was afraid the male runners would bulldoze her off the course; instead, “to my great delight, they said, 'Gee whiz. I wish my wife would run’... This is just what I wanted: men and women treating each other with respect.” She was greeted with cheers of support from the police officers lining the route and from many spectators in the crowd, especially when she ran past the all-women Wellesley College.

Despite Gibb's positive reception, it did not mean that the marathon was now open to female runners. The next year, Kathrine Switzer registered for the race using her first initial and BAA co-director Jock Semple tried to pull her physically from the course mid-race, leading to one of running’s most dramatic photo sequences. Switzer's fellow male runners worked to protect her and urged her on, and she completed the race as the Boston Marathon's first registered female runner. However, it wasn’t until 1972 -- after many years of pressure from women's sports advocates -- that the Boston Marathon officially allowed female runners. It took another 12 years of campaigning for women to finally be allowed to compete in the marathon at the Olympic Games -- a victory which was achieved at long last with the first women's marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Last year, over 13,000 women ran the Boston Marathon, and uniquely, the Boston Marathon is one of few sporting events where men and women’s winners receive the same prize money. Gibb herself is tremendously proud of her role in advancing women in running: “Almost half the race is women now. This is the world that I wanted to create," she says. "This is what I wanted to see: men and women and individual people who have taken on the challenge or running the marathon.” And she marvels at how a simple decision by one person can have such an impact: “It's ordinary people who move the world into a happier and healthier place.”

For a fascinating book about 22 trailblazing women runners, including Bobbi Gibb, check out “First Ladies of Running: 22 Inspiring Profiles of the Rebels, Rule Breakers, and Visionaries Who Changed the Sport Forever,” at http://amzn.to/1Vbcljj

Kathrine Switzer also wrote an excellent book about the fight for equality in women's sports: “Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women’s Sports”, which you can find at http://amzn.to/1o1607x

For several Mighty Girl stories that celebrate the joy of running, we recommend the bilingual picture book “We Are Girls Who Love to Run / Somos Chicas Y a Nosostras Nos Encanta Correr” for ages 4 to 8 (http://www.amightygirl.com/we-are-girls-who-love-to-run) and “The Running Dream” for ages 12 and up (http://www.amightygirl.com/the-running-dream).

If you have a Mighty Girl in your life who won't let any anyone tell her she can't do something because she's a girl, check out the "Though She Be But Little She Is Fierce" t-shirt -- available in a variety of styles and colors for all ages at http://www.amightygirl.com/fierce-t-shirt

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Check it out!! Race To Paisley Park 5k

Thank you for the opportunity Hudson Daybreak Rotary!

It's Back! MIGHTY MILERS, the BEFORE SCHOOL running club through School District of River Falls Community Education (link below).

Kids Kindergarten - 5th grade are welcome to participate!

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GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY

https://rfsd.cr3.rschooltoday.com/public/getclass/category_id/0/program_id/13

Other Classes without category - Class Registration v3.0 - River Falls The Community Education Office will be closed today, Dec. 16th from 12:00pm to 4:00pm due to the weather. You can register for classes on-line at www.rflearns.org. Welcome to School District of River Falls Community Education 818 Cemetery

Winter and Spring Registration is open!!! https://rfsd.cr3.rschooltoday.com/public/getclass/category_id/0/program_id/13

The most important thing you can do with your kids? Eat dinner with them. Good for mind and body.

A family fun event this weekend!

Thank you to the following businesses, organizations and Individuals for their generous support of the River Falls Library Foundation and the 2016 Kirby Symes Memorial 5K/1Mile Family Fun Run!
Register in the library or online: http://www.riverfallspubliclibrary.org/kirby-symes-memorial-5k.html
Dick's Fresh Market - River Falls
Family Fresh Market
Bare Wooden Spoon
Healthy Kids Running Series - River Falls
River Falls Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau
Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery
Hub 70 Design & Print
Johnnie's Bar
Thrivent Financial
Hjordi Eystad Van Ausdal
Valley View Farms
Edward Jones