Program Overview
Go Run Missoula is an 6-week program offered once a week at various locations around Missoula. Sessions occur in the fall, winter, spring, and summer. Led by qualified professionals, we run, strength train, set fitness goals, and develop leadership skills. Each session includes community races, trail runs, weight lifting, yoga, obstacle courses, and running games.
Our Driving Values
- Empowerment: We inspire participants to take initiative, make decisions, and achieve goals, building confidence and leadership that positively impact their lives and communities.
- Resilience: We teach participants how to learn from new experiences and setbacks, navigate change, overcome challenges, and persevere in the face of adversity.
- Community: We nurture kindness, empathy, and support by building an inclusive space where everyone feels valued.
- Fun: We prioritize fun by incorporating play and teamwork, inspiring an appreciation for movement and activity.
Program Options
Running
FALL / WINTER / SPRING
Running is fun, affordable, and easy to learn. It helps kids improve in other sports, have strong role models, and encourages healthy friendships. The brain stimulation caused from running provides access to areas of the brain that allow us to feel vulnerable with others. This matters because young girls between the ages of 8-15 have a lot of stressors, and this is the perfect age to encourage self-exploration and positive peer relationships.
Trail Running
SPRING
Trail running is an opportunity to access the surrounding mountains with friends and mentors. With a focus on making trail running fun, participants will learn proper running form for gaining and losing elevation as well as trail etiquette, and safety.
Spring 2023 Registration Opens 3/6/23 at 8 am
Registration opens on March 6th at 8 am, inquiries prior to this time will not allow entry to the registration site.
Registration Coming Spring 2025
Trail Running
SPRING
Trail running is an opportunity to access the surrounding mountains with friends and mentors. With a focus on making trail running fun, participants will learn proper running form for gaining and losing elevation as well as trail etiquette, and safety.
Registration Coming Spring 2025
Summer Camps
SUMMER
GRM Running Camp
Open to female and non-binary youth entering 3rd – 8th grades. Offered at various outdoor locations in Missoula, activities include strength training, leadership workshops, trail running, community service, and obstacle courses. Entry to the Tony Banovich 5k and the opportunity to support a Missoula Marathon aid station with free swag and shirts included.
Registration Coming Spring 2025
GRM Trail Camp
Open to all genders ages 8-15 years. Spend the week running on Missoula trails, learning orienteering skills, and participating in leadership workshops. Youth will tackle challenging fitness goals while exploring personal strengths, values, and passions. Topics include proper trail running form, stewardship, safety and etiquette, wilderness first aid, nutrition, and strength and agility training. Trail runs will include the completion of an orienteering route. Orienteering involves running through terrain while navigating with a map and compass to specific checkpoints. The sport teaches adaptable decision-making, empathy, confidence, and persistence alongside physical effort, map-reading, and individual and team-based problem-solving. On the final day of camp, all participants will participate in a friendly competition to show off their newfound orienteering skills, fitness, and confidence to accept challenging tasks. All trail runs and workshops are facilitated by professionals.
Registration Coming Spring 2025
Strength Training
WINTER
Strength impacts nearly all physical endeavors.GRM follows the Brand X Method approach to youth strength training. Created in 1999, the foundation of the Brand X Method programming is to do what’s best for kids by improving their ability to interact with any environment. This means building physical competence, confidence, and motivation so that youth feel the freedom and fearlessness to tackle all physical tasks throughout life. Making children good movers through strength training will allow them to feel confident in themselves and therefore motivated to do movement throughout the rest of their lives.
Strength Training
WINTER
Strength impacts nearly all physical endeavors.GRM follows the Brand X Method approach to youth strength training. Created in 1999, the foundation of the Brand X Method programming is to do what’s best for kids by improving their ability to interact with any environment. This means building physical competence, confidence, and motivation so that youth feel the freedom and fearlessness to tackle all physical tasks throughout life. Making children good movers through strength training will allow them to feel confident in themselves and therefore motivated to do movement throughout the rest of their lives.
Program Goals
- Through participation in GRM, youth will develop the ability, confidence, and desire to be physically active.
- Through participation in GRM, youth will establish healthy relationships with their families, peer groups, and community.
- Through participation in GRM, youth will see increases in confidence at home and in school.
- Through participation in GRM, youth will experience increases in academic performance at school.
