Suchin Pak and MTV's Refresh Everything Road Trip Visit The 100 Mile Club®

June 12, 2010 Article from The Press Enterprise/Jerry Soifer

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Nearly 200 boys and girls exercised, stretched and ran laps at Rosa Parks Elementary School in Eastvale Saturday for MTV camera personnel.

The children are members of the 100 Mile Club, a youth fitness organization that was started in Corona with 12 children in 1992 by McKinley Elementary School teacher Kara Lubin.

There are now 15,000 children nationally who belong. The club celebrated the award of a $25,000 grant by the Pepsi Refresh Project. Lubin said the money will enable the club to sponsor 2,500 children nationally next year.


Lubin applied for the Pepsi Grant on March 1. Voting began on April 1. The 100 Mile Club finished third in the voting nationally. Lubin said she found out a week and a half ago the crew was going to arrive to film the kids. Lubin needed a campus for the filming and Rosa Parks made itself available.

Boys and girls from area schools took part. The children were videotaped stretching. Then they started running quarter-mile laps that had been laid out of the campus. They turned in cards documenting each lap they ran. They also received bottled water.

Three to four hours of film would be edited down to one minute to be shown on MTV, Comedy Central, Spike, Teen Nickelodeon and VH1.

Kalyn Washington, 5, of Eastvale, excitedly set down each bottle of water by her mother, Kecia, whose older daughter, Kalyn, 9, also ran.

Kecia said her daughters are extremely fitness oriented. "Not only does it improve them physically it improves them spiritually," said Kecia. "When you're running, endorphins kick in. It frees you mind to be creative."

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• childhood obesity
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[xXDearPacificDay12Xx]

i know the kid in the right in the grey shirt Ey Paris!

[VivaLaRaza547]

iim in this xD