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The goal of the AJAA Junior Runners is to provide 4-6 grade students with an early competitive running experience that:
· Involves everyone in a positive team experience,
· Allows for individual and team goal development and self-improvement
· Develops fundamental running skills,
· Promotes healthy lifestyles
· Builds confidence, and
· Promotes fun!
Avon Junior Runners is instructional and recreational aimed to teach running to young people within the following framework:
· An instructional and recreational league,
· Focused on longer-distance running
· Establishment of goals
· Keeping of individual times
· Emphasizing individual effort to improve,
· Develops individual fitness and healthy nutrition habits
· Practicing good sportsmanship, and
· Considering all runners as WINNERS
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