How Atlanta Track Club Maximizes Their Community Reach

Run clubs are advantageous for everyone involved—parents, teachers, kids, etc. There are so many benefits:

• Goal setting

• Habit formation

• Increased physical activity

• Fun

And these are just a few of them! Starting a run club because of these benefits is a no-brainer, but if you find yourself without the right tools, it can get a bit tricky – especially if you’re organizing run clubs for a whole community of people.

One way to organize your run club that makes all this much simpler is to use technology to manage, report, and track the data from your club. Our EZ Scan® app is the best tool that makes this easier at any given site or even across a whole community. EZ Scan helps you step back and see the bigger picture.

The EZ Scan^® “Community” feature provides a place for community leaders to track progress across any number of run club sites (be that schools, Y’s, clubs, or community events). Tracking progress helps ensure that all those parents, teachers, and kids involved are successful with their goals.

One example of a successful EZ Scan community using this feature is the Atlanta Track Club. Originally, Atlanta Track Club started with just 7 locations in the greater Atlanta area, but in a few short years, that number has worked up to 56! Keeping track of mileage for that many locations could be difficult, but with the EZ Scan app, tracking the entire Atlanta Track Club’s community miles is as simple as clicking a button. During the 2021-2022 school year, Atlanta Track Club recorded over 20,000 miles, averaging a whopping 20 miles per child across each of their locations.

As mentioned before, EZ Scan also provides progress reports for individual schools or locations. One such example is Kilometer Kids, the free running program for K-8 kids. Though Kilometer Kids is a part of the Atlanta Track Club community, each Kilometer Kids location individually tracks participants’ laps and helps them set their own goals. They were able to see if each child in their program ran 26.2 miles—the length of a marathon—over their 10-week season.

“Using Fitness Finders’ EZ Scan mileage tracking technology has been a great asset,” said Madison Hafitz, the program manager for Atlanta Track Club’s Kilometer Kids. “EZ Scan allows our coaches to easily track mileage so they can be sure to hand out mileage-based incentives to the kids when they reach their 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and full-marathon goals.” 

With EZ Scan, participants can stay on top of their progress by scanning their QR codes and getting real-time updates. Kids can also see when they’ll receive their next reward and feel motivated to hit that next milestone.

“In the past, our coaches used Popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and all sorts of other creative ways to keep track of their participants’ mileage, but the EZ Scan app and QR code scanning technology has made the process so much more streamlined and efficient,” Madison affirmed.

EZ Scan can work with up to 1500 kids per site, yet participants’ stats can be viewed immediately. Organizers can also create teams for friendly competition, check to see if awards have been earned and handed out, and print unlimited certificates. 

Madison agreed with how useful EZ Scan is for Kilometer Kids. “Our coaches especially love the leaderboard feature in EZ Scan that allows them to quickly share individual runners’ progress with the entire team to help motivate everyone to reach their next milestone.”

As you can see, EZ Scan technology definitely makes it ‘EZ’ for both kids and organizers on an individual and community scale. Want to learn more about EZ Scan Communities? Download this FREE pdf with more information about EZ Scan's Community Capability. 

Would you like to speak with someone? Please feel free to call, 1-800-789-9255 and speak with one of our EZ Scan Specialists.