Denver Dinos Youth Running
A new youth running club in E Denver.
Coming Spring, 2026
Life Lessons Through Sports
Running (sports) is a great vehicle for learning about life. It's about testing your limits, experiencing big feelings, good and bad, in a relatively low risk setting. Feel, experience, learn to manage big feelings and challenges in running, where the stakes are fairly low, to help them learn how to handle big feelings and situations later in life.
- Success and Failure
- Joy and Sadness
- Doubt and Confidence
- Grit
- Patience
- Testing Limits
- Passion
- Ages 6-14.
- Tue & Thu after school.
- Lowry & Central Park.
- Free family runs on weekends (ocassionally).
- No prior running experience necessary. They should be capable of running/walking 1/2-mile without stopping. They should be coachable.
- End of season party.
Tentative schedule:
- Spring: April 7 - May 21
- Summer: June 2 - July 30
- Fall: Aug 18 - mid Nov
Competition
Dinos are encouraged to compete in races. Tentative schedule:
- Sep 28 - Coyotes Invitational, deKoevend Park, Centennial
- Oct 4 - Boulder Mtn Warriors XC, Boulder
- Oct 12 - Elevated XC Showdown, Aurora
- Oct 19 - Expo Park XC, Aurora*
- Nov 8 - Kokopelli Challenge, Colo Springs
- Nov 15 - Colorado Youth Championships, Aurora
*Our home meet. Free for Denver Dinos.
Distance for most XC races
- 8&u: 2km (~1.24mi)
- 9-12: 3km (~1.86mi)
- 13-14: 4km (~2.49mi)
