Sophomore Layne Pace ran the St. George Utah Marathon in October, beating her personal record by seven minutes, so it\u2019s only fitting she would start a club to mentor young runners and share her skills at Harding Academy.<\/p>\n
Through an after-school program called Extracurricular Classes in Arts, Technology and Sciences (E-CATS), Pace teaches elementary school students how to push themselves through running. <\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, I have four girls and one boy [in the club], but it\u2019s hard because kids don\u2019t really know how to run distance yet, so it\u2019s a lot of kids strung out everywhere because they\u2019re all at different paces,\u201d Pace said. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to teach them how to consistently run, how to enjoy it, how to do it as a team, and really just how to encourage each other when they think they can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shannon King, is director of the Academic Support and Enrichment Centers at Hardign Academy, and asked Pace to help.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy job is to come up with classes and then fill those positions, and occasionally I\u2019ll teach one,\u201d King said. \u201cI knew [Pace] loved running and knew she wanted to mentor young runners, especially female runners, like empowering them in the future. We\u2019re family friends, and this summer I basically asked, \u2018Hey, would you be interested?\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
Pace\u2019s friend, sophomore Caily Moore, said Pace is a behind the scenes leader and has a sense of humility most people do not have.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was actually unaware of the running club Layne started until I recently saw a Facebook post about it,\u201d Moore said. \u201cThis just shows how humble she is about it. She\u2019s not one to go around bragging about the things she\u2019s doing to change the lives of the kids around her.\u201d<\/p>\n
The running club meets every Tuesday afternoon, and Pace leads them on a two-mile run, running alongside them and ingraining a hard work ethic within them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you tell a kid they just ran two miles, they\u2019re like, \u2018Whoa!\u2019,\u201d Pace said. \u201cThey feel very accomplished for sure, but that\u2019s just the mentality I\u2019m trying to give them, like you can push yourself further than you think.\u201d<\/p>\n
While pushing the kids to try their best, Pace also rewards them with fun activities to help with encouragement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis past Tuesday, they reached one of their running goals, and so they had a root beer float party, and then they had met another goal, and so they had a water balloon fight,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n
Just as Pace helps encourage the kids she runs with, Pace said the kids are also a big motivating factor for her. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the opportunity to be able to teach kids that running could be such a big part of their life is just so special, and when I\u2019m having a not so good day, running with them just brings me a lot of joy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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