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Dear Parent,

Over the next five months, our school will be training for the2018 Blue Cross and Blueof Alabama Kids Mercedes Marathon which will be held Saturday, February 10 at Linn Park in downtown Birmingham. The kids marathonis an innovative, endurance building running/walking program for K-5th graders. Our goal is to assist your children in building endurance, setting and accomplishing long-term fitness goals and enhancing their self-esteem while teaching them valuable lessons about making health and fitness a regular part of their life. Last year,approximately 4800 students and 95 schools from the Birmingham metro area participated in this fitness event. It’s a great way to teach our students the importance of a healthy life style.

Children will run the distance of a full marathon (26.2 miles) over the course of the five month program. To achieve this goal, kids must train for the last mile of their marathon by running a total of 25.2 miles in ¼ mile, ½ mile, ¾ mile or 1 mile incrementsbetween now and the end of January to qualify for race day participation. As each child completes the final mile on the actual marathon course on Saturday, February 10 2018, he/she will receive a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama KidsMercedes Marathon Finisher’s Medal, a miniature version of the Mercedes Marathon finisher’s medal.

Our students will run each Monday in PE class.Please be sure they dress appropriately for this activity. To make this easier for everyone involved, we will keep a master running log of the miles run to turn into the Marathon office once we reach 25.2 miles.

You are responsible for registering your child in the kids marathon and this MUST be done by NOVEMBER 15th. Please visit to register your child online or print a hard copy form and mail to the Mercedes Marathon office. Online registration is $20 plus a small service fee, but online registration is still cheaper than a hard copy form. Hard copy form registration is $25. Please be sure to print out a confirmation of your online registration or make a copy of your hard copy registration form and send it to us so that we can enter them into our mileage log.

To view the event, visit and click on the kids marathon page.

If you have any questions, or would like additional assistance or information, please do not hesitate to contact us at the school or contact the marathon office at (205) 870-7771 or at .

Thanks! Feel free to come run with us!

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