Together, Let's get kids active
Review the questions below to help you plan for your Marathon Kids Program.
How will you implement our program to meet your needs?
You can implement Marathon Kids in more ways than one to manage multiple programs simultaneously.
Get kids moving before or after school
Integrates with Physical Education curriculum
Easily record laps for your next school event
Active time in the classroom
Opportunity to capture extra laps.
What types of physical activity will you count towards mileage?
Whether your participants complete laps or minutes of heart-pumping activity, it all counts towards mileage.
- You will be asked to set your lap distance.
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- Calculate the distance of one lap around your track, field, or wherever your participants will run.
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- To capture effort, laps can be manually added or recorded by using the scanner app.
FUN FACT: If you have multiple programs, you can add more than one track for each specific program to run reports to view the data (i.e. PE track, run club track).
- We count 20 minutes of heart-pumping activity as one mile.
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- You will see two auto-populated activities for 10 minutes and 20 minutes. You can adjust or add more.
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- Heart-pumping activities could be warmups, exercises, games, sports, etc.
- To capture effort, minutes can be manually added or recorded by using the scanner app.
Do you know who will participate?
If yes, you already have a list of participants:
You have three easy options to get them into the system:
- Manually Enter – Quickly add participants one at a time by clicking into the table and typing directly into each cell.
- Copy/Paste – Paste your existing list of participants directly into our table. This is great for adding a group quickly.
- Add in Bulk – Use our spreadsheet template to upload a large group of participants all at once. You can even organize them by class or group as you upload.
If no, you don’t have a list yet:
Use the Recruitment feature to generate a custom registration link for your club. This allows parents or guardians to enroll their children directly into your program.
Who will help you manage your program?
You can invite supporters to help manage and support your program like co-workers and volunteers.
Supporters can:
- Manage Data
- Pull Reports
- "Start Live Session" on the scanning app
- Join a Session
- And More!
How are you planning to organize the ID cards?
All participants will have an auto-generated personal ID Card (QR code) to track individual efforts.
Be sure to download Marathon Kids Connect App to be able to scan for completed laps and active minutes.
You print the 4"x3" ID cards from your account.
Check out some helpful tips for organizing ID cards!
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Here is a checklist with links to help articles that are full of advice and information to support you.
If you have any questions about the platform, please visit our Help Center or email support@marathonkids.org.
We're here to help you!