Run clubs are advantageous for everyone involved—parents, teachers, kids, etc. There are so many benefits:
- Goal setting
- Habit formation
- Increased physical activity
- Fun
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.
