Girls on the Run Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley

Who are we?

Girls on the Run of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley is a lot more than a running program. We are fitness and health for mind, body and life. Girls on the Run of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley is a life-changing, learning program for girls age eight to thirteen years old. The program combines training for a 3.1 mile run/walk event with self-esteem enhancing, uplifting workouts. The goals of the programs are to encourage positive emotional, social, mental, spiritual and physical development.

What is our mission?

Our mission is to educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living.

What are our goals?

The Girls on the Run objective is to reduce the potential display of at-risk activities among its participants. The goal is fewer adolescent pregnancies and eating disorders, less depression and suicide attempts, as well as fewer substance/alcohol abuse problems and confrontations with the juvenile justice system.

Why we exist

Girls on the Run is a prevention program. We seek to educate young girls to take control of their behavior before health needs arise. Studies show that girls between the ages of eight and twelve, while beginning to feel pressure, are still receptive to adult influence. It's an age psychologists call the latency period of development when girls begin to confront important life and relationship issues. As a prevention program, Girls on the Run initiates healthy decision making about difficult issues and encourages open and honest dialogue with parents/caretakers before its too late.

In addition, learning healthy exercise habits early in life increases the chances that participants will value their own physical fitness as adults. Recent studies show that only those who develop exercise habits in their teen years or earlier are likely to maintain those habits for life. It's well documented that regular, moderate exercise improves cardiovascular functioning, and reduces the risk of developing breast cancer, osteoporosis (brittle bones), and obesity.

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