Run Kind
Run Kind: Encourage Fitness Within Your Community
Physical fitness is vital to appreciating promoting our outdoor lifestyle. While individuals will differ in their pace and distances, it is not important how fast one runs but that one runs:
Run Inclusive: Smile and say hello. Share the trails and encourage runners of all abilities.
Run Aware: Be mindful of wildlife and plant life. Know and abide the leash requirements and etiquette of your area parks and trails.
Run No Trace: Run on established trails. Avoid cutoffs, multiple tracks, and creating new paths.
Run Smart: Know trail conditions, let others know your running plan, and have a plan B in case trail conditions are adverse.
Run Safe: Be prepared and have appropriate gear for all weather and trail conditions. Bear spray is encouraged. Running with a partner is always best!
Run Prepared: Warmup, stretch, and cooldown appropriately to your level of experience and exertion—and don’t forget to hydrate.
Run Grateful: Our trails give us so much. Give back by volunteering for trail clean ups and other activities. Support local trail and recreation organizations.
Run Kind with the Big Sky Wind Drinkers
The Big Sky Wind Drinkers has a long history of promoting, encouraging, and enabling a diverse vision of community fitness throughout Southwest Montana. From the founding charter of the organization, first written on a diner napkin in 1973 (we still have the napkin) the Club’s mission states: Although physical fitness is the aim it is recognized that individuals will differ in their prowess & adroitness as runners. Therefore, it is not important how fast one runs but that one runs.
The Big Sky Wind Drinkers promotes community fitness through running by hosting free and open fun runs throughout all 12 months, and regardless of the climate. As the Club motto states: Fitness cannot be bestowed or bought; like honor, it must be earned. The organization also hosts or partners in a number of large event runs, such as the Bridger Ridge Run, the Sweet Pea Run, the Huffing for Stuffing, and others. Funds raised by the Club go to support community organizations that promote trail and track use and running, as well as a number of annual academic scholarships offered to youth of the Southwest Montana running community.