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Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
🎉 Happy Sweet 16 BGR!
Black Girls RUN! celebrates 16 years of community, sisterhood, black women and running in April! We are calling on all members, friends, supporters, allies, sole sistas and run buddies (men and women) to join us for our Sweet 16 virtual challenge this month!
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🛍️ All New Gear Options!
Choose one of the gear options included with your registration or upgrade to a fleece or tank hoodie. All participants receive a challenge medal!
🏃♀️ Here's how it works...
- Register: for the challenge. The cost is $45 (includes shipping) for a shirt with the option to upgrade. Once you finish your challenge, we'll ship your gear right to your door. Just want the gear? Click Register and choose "Gear Only".
- Strava Club: Join the Black Girls Run Strava club. We'll send instructions in your confirmation email. Encouraging, reminiscing, and friendly trash-talking is permitted and encouraged.
- Run/Walk: each week! Upload as many activities as you want to reach your goal. The challenge runs from 4/1/2025 to 4/30/2025.
- Submit Activities: each week into the Virtual Results. See the chart below for more information.
Cross your fingers! Each week on Monday we'll pick TWO random winners to win a prize. Weekly prizes are randomly chosen, not based on performance. You must upload your results before Sunday at midnight to be eligible for the weekly prize!
🏅 One month. One goal.
Submit ALL of your runs, walks or hikes to reach your challenge goal.
📊 Challenge Levels:
| Level I | Level II | Level III |
|---|---|---|
| Mileage: 30 Miles (ave 1 mile per day) | Mileage: 90 Miles (ave 3 miles per day) | Mileage: 150 Miles (ave 5 miles per day) |
| Steps: 60K (ave 2K steps per day) | Steps: 150K (ave 5K steps per day) | Steps: 300K (ave 10K steps per day) |
🎁 Weekly Prizes:
| Week #1 - April 7 | Week #2 - April 14 |
|---|---|
| Winner #1: $10 Fleet Feet Gift Card Edwanna Andrews, Sanford, FL Winner #2: BGR! Backpack Mandrell Lucas, Las Vegas, NV |
Winner #1: $20 Fleet Feet Gift Card Winner #2: BGR! Duffle |
| Week #3 - April 21 | Week #4 - April 28 |
| Winner #1: $25 Fleet Feet Gift Card Winner #2: BGR! Duffle |
Winner #1: $50 Fleet Feet Gift Card Winner #2: BGR! Backpack |
For more information and to participate, please visit the BGR! Sweet 16 Virtual Challenge.
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