Einstein Elementary school’s official first day participating in the Morning Mile took off sprinting with over 50% of the students showing up at 7:45am to run with the University of Florida ROTC the day before spring break! Everybody was full of energy, spirits were high and the miles were racking up quickly. Physical Education coach Mark [...]

ABC’s WCJB TV20 News visited our Morning Mile program at The Rock School in Gainesville, Florida. Run by Coach Carrie Reichardt, these kids love to run and have completed over 5,000 miles already this year. Not bad for a school with just over 100 students! Overall, the Morning Mile has been implemented in 116 schools throughout the USA, Canada and [...]

Thanks to all the parents who showed up to run and walk with their healthy Morning Milers on National Morning Mile Parents Day! Check out this super gallery featuring the families of Hidden Oak Elementary in Gainesville, Florida. You’ll even catch a glimpse of Hidden Oak Principal Ron Knowles running in his black Hidden Oak T-shirt. He ran two miles [...]

On January 6, 2012 Morning Mile producer, Fitz Koehler, participated in the runDisney Family Fiesta 5K at EPCOT Center in Orlando, Florida. This race was part of the annual Disney Marathon event. Fitz ran the uber-fun race with her husband and six year old, Morning Mile loving son Parker, and caught up with a bunch of kids who participated to [...]

We recently started the Morning Mile at both of our Baby Gator Child Development and Research Center sites with 2 ½ – 5 year olds and it has been the talk of our school.  The kids have absolutely fallen in love with running and really look forward to their morning run.  The teachers have really taken to the program and [...]

This year, Alachua County school children have accomplished something extremely exciting. Normally my elation comes at the hand of great academic achievement, but we’ve got something else to brag about now and that “thing” is a whopping 40,000 miles run by many of our elementary school students. The Morning Mile is a program introduced by a Florida-based company called Fitzness [...]

I was there for the very first Morning Mile event at Hidden Oak Elementary School. There was a good sampling of kids who took to the field behind the school and logged some laps, and I think everyone had a pretty good time. I did, too. I ran a mile or so, a good kick-off to my morning workout. Since [...]

Fitzness International is incredibly proud to promote fitness through our amazing Morning Mile program – we do more though! Check out these fun pics of our Projects Coordinator, Terry McGowan, having fun talking about healthy bodies and exercising with students from Sweetwater Branch Academy. Terry said the more than 120 kids he spoke to were very enthusiastic about fitness and [...]