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Cherokee Nation Wings Fitness offers virtual 5K runs – Cherokee Phoenix

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BYLINDSEY BARK Reporter

06/22/2020 11:30 AM

As CN services and programs slowly reopen after being limited because of the COVID-19 pandemic, several alterations had to be made for those services and programs to continue helping CN citizens.

Wings offers health education, nutrition and physical activity opportunities such as 5K runs and walks.

While most 5K races were scheduled to begin in March, Public Health officials had to re-evaluate how participants were able to race because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prohibited large group gatherings and advocated social distancing.

We canceled all of our community events up until June, so that meant any of our programs that we were having, Public Health Supervisor Hillary Mead said. When June came and we started opening back up a little bit, we came together as a team and started to work on a plan of what we can do, and how can we involve our community and try to offer some of the same programs that we had before.

One idea was to have virtual races. Wings participants could run on their own, wherever they were located, and submit their times.

Our first one will be July 4. Anybody can participate. It runs from July 4 and then it goes until the following Saturday, which is July 11, Mead said. So theyll have a week to run that race. What theyll do is run the race and then theyll submit their time. Everything is online. They can submit their time through text message or on the website. Once they do that we will send them a T-shirt for participating in that race.

Participants can submit race information to http://www.runsignup.com.

You can run anywhere. You dont necessarily have to run the course. With each registration, weve posted their courses but you do not have to do that, you can run anywhere. But you just have to submit your time, she said.

As of publication, four races were scheduled for July and August. Mead said they would re-evaluate again if it is safe to schedule community races as they did before the COVID-19 pandemic occurred.

Well go from there to figure out if were going to continue virtual races for the rest of our races or if they might be able to meet, she said. Again, were going to be following CDC guidelines and watching our social distance and making sure were not gathering in large groups when its not safe.

Scheduled races include the Huckleberry Run for July 4-11, Happy Hills Run for July 18-25, Lake Vian Trail Run for Aug. 1-8, and Isaiah Sapp Memorial Run for Aug. 15-22.

Public Health is also starting online tobacco cessation classes and online walking groups for interested participants. For information and updates, visit the CN Healthy Nation Facebook page, http://www.cherokeepublichealth.org or call 918-453-5000, ext. 7691.

lindsey-bark@cherokee.org 918-772-4223

Lindsey Bark grew up and resides in the Tagg Flats community in Delaware County. She graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University in 2012 with a bachelors degree in mass communication, emphasizing ...

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