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MRH Girls Run With 8,000 Others Downtown

The elementary school girls ran in the Girls on the Run race Saturday morning.

A group of about a dozen Maplewood Richmond Heights Elementary were among 200 schools from 19 counties to come to the 10th annual Girls On the Run five kilometer race

The girls prepared for the run with a curriculum that included running, as well as 20 lessons to inspire them to become independent thinkers, to enhance their problem solving skills and make healthy decisions.

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The Girls on the Run mission: “We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.”

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