2024 Team Asha Running Program (Seattle)
Winter 2024 Update:
Team is training towards the 1st Dec 2024 Seattle Marathon & Half marathon.
Typical Training runs are Tuesdays (6pm), Thursdays (6pm) & Saturdays (7am) with Strength sessions on Wed (6:30pm online).
You can choose to meet with the group in person or train on your own at your own convenience.
Structured run training & Strength sessions started in Sep 2024, but it is not yet too late to join depending on your goal and current health and fitness situation.
This season, we are unable to offer the Yoga program.
Funds raised in 2024 will support Vikasana
Vikasana in Shimoga district, Karnataka brings school and literacy to children of migrant daily-wager laborers who don’t stay in a place long enough to give their children stability. The kids begin to work early (child labor) alongside their parents to make ends meet. Vikasana helps them break out of their cycle of poverty and helps them find meaning and aspiration. Their bridge school aims to rehabilitate kids and get them back to formal education. They also have an agricultural initiative to re-teach farming techniques to the migrant labour community so that they can start to sustain themselves better. Grass roots understanding of the area suggests that this is a sustainable way to reduce the challenges faced by vulnerable people in this region.
Every dollar donated will go to the project, Asha is a near-zero overhead organization (3% overhead to cover the credit card fee). No amount is too small.
2024 Runners
- Anjana Mohan
- Chad Moore
- Devang-Dhwani
- Faruk Nagori
- Hrishikesh
- Kaushik
- Nachiket
- Prateeksha
- Preeti
- Rinku
- Dr. Sridhar
- Vidya Annigeri
Asha for Education has created Team Asha as a fundraiser and awareness raiser for our mission: catalyzing socio-economic change through education. We hope to raise at least $10,000 this year. If you would like to support the initiative or the entire team rather than individual runners:
Fundraising Goals by each athlete:
Individual Commitment: $400
Family (2 Adult) Commitment: $700
Individual Goal: $1000
Deadline: Within 1 month after your event.
Important Note: Goals are achieved only with committed effort. Please match the effort of our volunteers, mentors and our coach by doing your part. Your friends and family will learn about a credible cause through you and they can take some action to show you their support. These increase your commitment to your goal and help you with your weekly effort in training. Commit to play your part in bringing socio-economic change in the world & follow through on your deadline. Team Asha mentors will help you.
Coaching and FAQs
Join us and learn what our Coach Sankar can offer with regards to some tips and tricks for injury-free running as well as improving your overall fitness, health and performance.
Frequently Answered Questions – answered by Coach Sankar
The Cause
Asha for Education is a secular organization dedicated to socio – economic change in India by focusing on basic education. Asha is a 100% volunteer driven non-profit organization.
A diverse group of highly-committed volunteers from each of the chapters take personal interest in researching and identifying education-related projects in India, mobilizing the necessary funds and nurturing them right from inception to when it is fully functional. Although the primary focus is on education, Asha also addresses issues affecting human life such as health care, environmental concerns and women’s issues. Over the years, Asha has succeeded in touching the lives of thousands of children through its various educational initiatives and projects. Asha will continue to evolve in keeping with the needs of the hour and the needs of our country.
Registration Details
Contact us at seattle.running@ashanet.org with your queries, or for more details/links for registrations and filling out waiver + commitment forms.