GlenmoreACpromote TheDailyMile.

Glenmore AC, with the Support of Athletics Ireland, are promoting the Daily mile and have distributed the pack to all the schools in their catchment area.

The Daily Mile was the brain child of a Scottish teacher Elaine Wyllie. In 2012 she asked a group of 10 year olds to run around the school playing field and discovered that half of them had to stop midway completely exhausted. It was very obvious they were completely unfit so she sat down with a tired class and together they discussed a plan that would help them to overcome this.

They marked out a mile on their playing field and each day they walked, jogged and ran this distance. The results were remarkable, the children looked