Tips & Resources

To help get your family, your class or yourself on the path to fitness through running, we’ve compiled a variety of tips, activities and additional resources to help you get the most out of the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon training program.

Check out:

• Starting a Training Program
• Frequently Asked Questions about Youth Running (FAQs)
• Suggested Running and Fitness Activities
• Kid-friendly places to run in the Twin Cities
• Training Tips: submit your own or read tips submitted by others
• Nutrition and Health Information, Programs and Links 
• Books and other media for children and adults
• Helpful Web Links

Downloadable PDF Versions:

• Starting a Training Program
• Activities
• Places to Run
• Training Tips 

Release and Waiver:

Participating in a training program for running is potentially hazardous activity.  There are inherent risks, both foreseeable and unpredictable, associated with any exercise program.  Individuals should not enter and participate in the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program unless they are medically able.   Participants, or in the case of children under 18 years of age their parents or legal guardians acting on their behalf, assume any and all risks associated with participating in the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program, including but not limited to falls, sprains, broken bones, cuts, torn muscles or ligaments, contact with other participants or non-participants, the effects of weather including high heat or humidity, the condition of the roads and the condition of any equipment they may use.

By downloading Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program materials or otherwise participating in the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program, participants, or in the case of children under 18 years of age their parents or legal guardians acting on their behalf, verify that their participation is voluntary, acknowledge that they have full knowledge of the rigors and risk involved in participating in the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program and agree that they will consult their personal physicians independently in the event of any injuries or medical questions related to their fitness or participation in the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program.

In consideration of participating in the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program, each participant, or in the case of a child under 18 years of age a parent or legal guardian on his or her behalf, hereby for himself or herself, his or her heirs, executors, administrators and anyone else who might claim on his or her behalf, covenants not to sue and waives, releases and discharges any organization associated with the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program, and the local governments and police, volunteers and any and all sponsors, including their agents, employees, assigns or anyone acting on their behalf, from any and all claims or liability for death, personal injury or property damage of any kind or nature arising out of, or in the course of, such participant's participation in the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program and all events and activities associated with the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program.

This Release and Waiver extends to all claims of every kind or nature whatsoever, foreseen or unforeseen, known or unknown.  By entering into the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program, each participant, or in the case of a child under 18 years of age his or her parent or legal guardian acting on his or her behalf, grants permission to Twin Cities Marathon, Inc. (TCM, Inc.) and agents authorized by it to use any photographs, videotapes, motion pictures, recordings or any other record of events related to the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon program for any purpose without limitation or compensation.

"All users who use any portion of the Medtronic TC Kids Marathon training program accessed from this web site must be 18 years of age or older and (a) must be the parent or legal guardian of all children under 18 years of age that will participate in the TC Kids Marathon program under such user's supervision or (b) in the event that such user is not the parent or legal guardian of any such participant under 18 years of age, must obtain written agreement to the terms and conditions of this Release and Waiver from such participant's parent or legal guardian."