Ride your bike to Family Fitness Day!
Bike Valet at Family Fitness Day
Looking for some healthy family fun this weekend? Our Digital Media Sponsor Race SLO, the organizer of the San Luis Obispo Marathon + Half Marathon has announced that its Family Fitness Day on Saturday morning, April 30 will benefit Jack’s Helping Hand, a local non-profit providing assistance and programs to children with cancer and special needs. The 5th anniversary SLO Marathon + Half edition, an Endurance Town USA running tradition, will be held on April 30-May 1.
Want to ride your bike to Family Fitness Day? Our free Bike Valet will be there at the iconic Madonna Inn property to park and watch over your bicycle while you enjoy the day’s events. Bike Valet will be there Sunday as well, so ride on down to watch the Marathon finish and let us keep an eye on your bicycle.
“Our free Family Fitness Day event has something for everybody from fun games, activities for the children and their families to three short run or walk races,” said Samantha Pruitt, Race SLO Founder & CEO. “This community event benefits our local non-profit Jack’s Helping Hand and its Camp Reach for the Stars that allows children fighting cancer and their family to attend Summer camp at no charge.”
Family Fitness Day Summary
The SLO Marathon + Half’s Family Fitness Day will have FREE activities for children of all ages and abilities, and on Saturday, April 30 the fun goes from 9:00am to 2:00pm at the iconic Madonna Inn property. Each family can participate in a variety of games and activities at no charge and will receive a Race SLO Champion sticker, play with all the local team mascots and get lessons in fun and sportsmanship from a variety of local sport teams and clubs. Food and vendors will be at the festival as well as all weekend long.
FREE activities for children and adults include:
- Soccer Ball Kick with Cal Poly and Musty Mustang
- Basketball Toss with Cal Poly
- Baseball Pitch with SLO Blues Baseball and Bluebelle the Bull
- Sack Race with Downtown Brown
- Cornhole, Ladder Golf, Croquet and Giant Connect Four with SLO Coast Shenanigans
- Golf Putt with Sunset Honda
- Rope-a-Steer with Cal Poly Rodeo
In addition, on Family Fitness Day, there are three running events:
- Kids One Mile (8:00am start)
- 5K Run / Walk / Strollers (8:15am start)
- Kids Quarter Mile Dash (9:30am start)
For more event information or to register for races before they sell out, go to: www.slomarathon.com/family-fitness-day
Plus, enjoy the food, beer and wine (adults 21 & older only!) garden all day!
