Confidence

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What a mirror really shows

My story begins with my friends that coached for GOTR. For several years they mentioned that I should coach as […]

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You Can Choose

What I love about Girls on the Run is that I can express all my feelings and emotions. I feel […]

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“It’s not the way you think it is”

VIDEO: Whitney Dowers from Canada shares her story about how other people’s assumptions about us can affect our lives.

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Changing lives – one girl at a time!

Jaden was born the oldest child in a home of domestic violence. She lived in the home until just before […]

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Every Last Girl Finished

At the age of 9, my daughter was beautiful and bubbly, intelligent and funny. Always tall for her age, she […]

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Girl You Be Trippin’

What obstacles are you facing? Seems like a simple question to ask a group of young teens. During our Overcoming […]

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Girls on the Run Central New York

Girls on the Run is so much fun. Beautiful. Powerful. Awesome. We know more about ourselves. We know our teammates […]

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Believing and Passing it On

I’m a 40-something mom of a grade school girl. Being fit and trim has always been a struggle for me, […]

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What Running Taught Me

I started running the fall after my daughter was born to lose a few pounds, get back in shape, and […]

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Weird

Weird. That mostly sums up my social life struggles growing up as a girl. Weird. My family is “weird”, my […]