While perusing the Canton Marathon website http://www.cantonmarathon.com/ I stumbled across an amazing organization called Girls on the Run. Immediately I knew that I wanted to be a part of their mission to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident. After a very long training session, lots of paperwork and a background check I'm in.
We've completed two sessions and I am hooked! Being at a GOTR session is like stepping into another world. There wasn't really a "getting to know you" phase with the third, fourth and fifth grade girls on my team. Once they knew my name they felt as though they could expose me to their world, which includes a lot of singing, dancing, laughing and quirkiness. You've got to love it when you tell them to run around and act crazy they sing, leapfrog over one another and act like chickens. I have a feeling I'm going to have a lot of fun in the next nine weeks.
Being a GOTR coach reminds me of when I was in high school and I helped my dad coach a fifth grade girls basketball team. I was never much of a basketball player, but I really enjoy that age group and I thought it would be a good chance to hang out with my dad in his element. My dad loved sports. He loved to watch them, play them and coach them. Growing up my dad was always helping to coach or support some athletic program that we were involved in. Now that I am an outcast in the world of pre-teen girls I understand that my dad sought to find a common interest with the tween version of me and for me it was basketball and softball. Smart guy.
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