Flying with Black Girls Run Charleston

I am fortunate to be involved in a group called Black Girls Run Charleston. It is part of a national movement that encourages African American women to run. This is an excerpt from www.blackgirlsrun.com

Black girls run? Of course we do. In 2009, Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks created Black Girls RUN! in an effort to tackle the growing obesity epidemic in the African-American community and provide encouragement and resources to both new and veteran runners.  The mission of Black Girls RUN! is to encourage African-American women to make fitness and healthy living a priority. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 80% of African-American women are overweight. BGR! wants to create a movement to lower that percentage and subsequently, lower the number of women with chronic diseases associated with an unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle.

The article written about the Charleston group was equally inspiring. I think the personal stories show the public how encouraging we are to get women healthy, so check us out. Whether you run, walk, or skip get moving and get healthy. 

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