My Time: 1,000 Girls on the Run participate in 5K

On April 22, more than 1,000 Girls on the Run participants and their running buddies ran a celebratory 5K at Druid Hill Park in Baltimore as the culminating event for their 10-week spring program. Approximately 3,000 family members and friends attended the event.

Girls on the Run of the Greater Chesapeake — located in Annapolis — is a physical activity-based, positive youth development program that uses fun running games and dynamic discussions to teach life skills to girls in third to eighth grade. During the 10-week program, girls participate in lessons that foster confidence, build peer connections and encourage community service while they prepare for an end-of-season celebratory 5K event.

This year, Girls on the Run of the Greater Chesapeake changed the lives of more than 1,800 girls in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties, as well as Baltimore City.

— Christine Schaaf