Any school or community center can apply. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for start-up throughout the year, so don’t hesitate to apply at any time. Submitting an application does not obligate you to join the program.

Tens of thousands of schools qualify. To be considered for the free program, fifty percent or more of your school’s population must qualify for free or reduced priced lunch. If you are not eligible for the free program, we will automatically send you an application for the at-cost program.

We help you motivate your kids. You provide students the opportunity to run or walk two to five times a week during 15 to 20 minute sessions. Report their progress to us and we send your students prizes for their accomplishments.

We give you the help you need. Teachers find the program easy to use. Your school will be assigned a regional coordinator to provide assistance and support by e-mail or telephone. You’ll also enjoy:

Easy Start-up: We will send you a FREE Start-Up Kit with an instructional CD, incentives for students, and assign a regional coordinator to your school.

Online Record Keeping: We show you how to keep track of the total mileage for each child that is enrolled.

Automatic incentives: You share the mileage with us, and we send the students their awards automatically.

Mighty Milers can happen anywhere, with or without a physical education teacher. Mighty Milers sessions can be run in the cafeteria, auditorium, hallways, playground, or school sidewalk. Your regional coordinator will help you select a location. And anyone from a teacher or principal to a recess aide or volunteer can serve as a Mighty Milers session leader.

Mighty Milers fits into a busy school day. Teachers use Mighty Milers to make recess time productive and orderly; provide classes with a fun, focusing, fitness break; and even enhance before or after school programming.

Mighty Milers’ staff is expert. Mighty Milers is a creation of New York Road Runners Foundation. NYRRF was founded to create fitness and character-building programs for underserved youth and disseminate those programs wherever they are needed. Mighty Milers programs are spreading quickly throughout the United States as well as regions of South Africa.

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