Doing a 5k with your dog

Have you ever done a 5k with your dog?  If you haven’t, maybe you should try it because they are a lot of fun!

Whether you run it or walk it, it is so awesome to see so many dogs getting along and cruising with their fur parent! Not to mention there are usually a lot of treats involved at the fair afterwards!  

Our Leash Your Fitness team does many of the dog friendly 5ks, we have a team of runners and walkers and we encourage everyone to get out and just do their best.  We have seen many walkers turn into runners and many runners turn into faster runners!

 It is so awesome to see the transformations!  What is fun about the 5k’s is it allows you to visit other areas of San Diego that you may not visit otherwise plus they are ALWAYS for a great cause.  This year we have done the Morris Cancer Walk in San Marcos and the Helen Woodward Puppy Love in Del Mar.  Both events were a ton of fun and both were for a great cause.  

Our team was the top fundraiser at the Puppy Love! We raised over $1600. for the pups and we won a bunch of cool stuff that we gave away to our team.

Leash Your Fitness Team

There is still one more upcoming event.  The Humane Society Walk for Animals is in May. Our team extends the walk into a 5k for our run group and our walk group will walk together along the beautiful San Diego Bay. Help us become TOP fundraiser again and JOIN OUR Leash Your Fitness Team!

Leash Your Fitness Runners ready for 5k

If you don’t think you can run a 5k or don’t think your dog is “5k ready”  then please feel free to join us for our Saturday trail run class.

That is where many of our girls got their start and they are more than ready to support you on yours.  A few of the girls did a 15k this year and it was fun hearing them say “I can remember when running 3 miles was hard!”

The trick is NOT GIVING UP and each week just going a little further.  In our class we do drills that help you get stronger like hill running (which nobody likes but thank us for later when the hills get easier through practice!), sprints, sand running, stairs and other things that will help you to not only increase your endurance but help you to get stronger.

Plus, it gets your pup used to running with others so the 5k’s won’t be scary for him/her.  AND, we are just FUN to workout with!! We move the classes around each month so you can practice in different environments AND you get to explore San Diego!

We look forward to you joining us in class and/ or on our 5k team soon! 

Enjoy our 2014 5k photos, we hope that YOU are in the next batch!