KiDSMARATHON runs to success!

Over 4000 Students from over 250 schools -grades 8 & under- from the Los Angeles Unified School District Beyond the Bell Branch + 1000 Students from the Inland Empire and Chino Hills School District, together with Students from Glendora participated at the Final Mile Celebration at Dodger Stadium on March 8 2015. Together with these students of the KiDSMARATHON ‘in school’ program there were 12,000 family and parents to cheer them on, as they ran their Final Mile of their MARATHON. 25,000 Students started training January 12 to accumulate 25.2 over the period of 8-10 weeks. They ran into Dodger Stadium over a distance of 1.2 miles thereby finishing the Marathon distance to great cheers and applause!

1972 Olympic 1,500 Bronze Medalist and 1983 NYC Marathon Champion Rod Dixon created the KIDS program to encourage children throughout the world to encourage fitness and fight childhood obesity. With programs in New Zealand, Los Angeles and Connecticut already in school systems the KIDS program continues to expand!

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