Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 11 am - 2 pm

YMCA Healthy Kids Day is a free, fun-filled day of activities designed to promote healthy kids and families in spirit, mind and body. YMCA Healthy Kids Day community-based events celebrate making fitness fun, and introduce kids to an array of YMCA programs that teach healthy behaviors and healthy ways to play -- an essential lesson in learning how to take care of themselves throughout their lifetimes. YMCA Healthy Kids Day is part of YMCA Activate America, an innovative public health initiative of the YMCA movement that is making healthy living a reality for millions of Americans. By celebrating health and wellness of young people through a variety of fun, physical activities, YMCA Healthy Kids Day encourages kids and their families nationwide to stay active, connected and healthy. The YMCA Healthy Kids Day event is celebrated annually. Activities at participating YMCAs will vary and may include games, sports, health screenings and more.

The Norwich Family YMCA hosts its annual Turkey Trot the Sunday before Thanksgiving each year.  Each year we see hundreds of novice, recreational and competitive runners turn out to challenge themselves and/or just have fun.  Our 5K run is an enjoyable residential run with only one hill, finishing on the fast downhill. 

We also have an increasingly popular kids fun run just before the Turkey Trot starts, in which children up to the sixth grade can participate.  We have witnessed increasingly younger and older participants joining the Turkey Trot, with runners as young as nine years old and as experiences as 80 years old.  Entire families enter the run just for the fun of being active together.  We have also encouraged schools to send entire teams to the race, keeping their runners in shape in the off season and enticing them to bring a team trophy home to their schools!  We’d love to continue growing the Norwich Family YMCA 5K Turkey Trot, and hope we’ll see you there!