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  • ABOUT
    • Vision and Mission
    • History and Values
    • Essential Community Practices
    • Impact
    • Team
    • Board of Directors
    • Board of Visitors
    • Partners
    • Annual Reports
    • Contact
  • PROGRAMS
    • Sole Train
    • TEEP
    • Trinity@McCormack
    • OEP
    • TBCC
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Job Opportunities
    • Volunteer or Intern
    • Racial Healing Challenge
  • NEWS & RESOURCES
    • Updates
    • Calendar
    • Resource Center
  • MEDIA
    • Podcasts
    • videos and photos
  • SPECIAL EVENTS
    • BFY
    • Sole Train 5k
    • Boston Marathon
    • Rodman Ride
  • DONATE

sole train: boston runs together

[de]constructing the [im]possible through running

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Sole Train is a community building and mentoring program that uses running as a vehicle for setting and achieving seemingly impossible goals.

Sole Train connects 250+ students (Young Soles) in grades 5-8 with 100+ adult volunteers (Old Soles), 50% of whom are school staff, at 15 schools and community centers across Boston. Sole Train sites practice 1-2 times a week during the school year and come together for community building events and races, leading up to Sole Train’s culminating goal race: Boston’s Run to Remember, a five-mile race or half marathon.

students of color often lack access to running and its benefits to the mind, body, and soul.

In his book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, Dr. John Ratey notes that “when students…go for (even) a mile run in gym, they are more prepared to learn in their (other) classes: their senses are heightened; their focus and mood are improved; they’re less fidgety and tense; and they feel more motivated and invigorated.”  “The population segments of youth with lowest levels of physical activity and fitness also have least access to school-based physical activity opportunities and resources.” (Basch, 2011) 

Sole Train provides access to safe and supportive running communities where youth gain the physical benefits of movement and improve their SEL skills in three domains:

• BEING: choosing courage and building confidence

• DOING: setting goals and achieving the impossible

• RELATING: connecting with others and creating communities

Sole Train's impact

Youth survey results showed the following gains:

83%

increased confidence in goal-setting

81%

increased confidence in taking on hard challenges

80%

were interested in joining Sole Train or another supportive community next year

80%

average percentage increase in SEL skills by youth who began the year with lower SEL competencies

stories

Sole Train gives the youth in our community a voice, gives them focus and guidance, and specifically shows them how great they can be.
Willie GrossBoston Police Commissioner
I’m not used to having anyone supporting me and having my back. Sole Train gave me that.
SharifHigh Schooler
Sole Train taught me that as long as I am determined and motivated I can do anything.
Marriella High schooler
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connect with Sole Train

School and/or community partner or just have general questions? Contact: Jess Leffler

Parent or caregiver and have questions? Contact: Alicia Ridenour

Volunteer/interested volunteer? Contact: Nahima Soto-González

contact us

  • Trinity Boston Connects
  • 206 Clarendon St. Boston, MA 02116
  • (617) 800-0759
  • (617) 536-8916
  • contact@trinityconnects.org

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