During these three minute interviews, we tried to get a glimpse of the girls’ personalities. Some were quite mature in their responses with goals of opening charities in third world countries, already writing books, or setting up rescue horse ranches here in the county. Others were, well… little girls – excited about being in a pageant and wanting to look glamourous in front of their family and friends. These were the majority & when asked what they’d do with $1 million dollars our typical response was “shopping.”

You’d think they’d know better than to give that answer, right? Nonetheless, we continued the interviews for a few hours and took our notes & thoughts home with us for the night. Saturday afternoon, the pageant began at the Lobero Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara.

I was quite pleased to see a lack of silicone in our sights as the pageant began. These girls came from all walks of life – home schooled with rich parents to the general population. I honestly felt the pageant had a strong mix of the community and was pleased at how genuine each girl presented themselves. The audience was filled with parents and siblings, mostly who were cheering on their little girl.

We ended the pageant around 7pm with after going through semi-finals to pick the winners. The final contestants were great role models & I’m pleased what our other 10 judges helped conclude. Below is a picture of our judges & the winners.

Our company donated dance lessons to all contestants & a contract to publish the book of the Jr. Teen winner – a cancer survivor in the Santa Barbara Area.

So far, MOVFitness has hosted less than 5 races, but we are storming into the field with an extremely small carbon imprint and going to draw crowds of around 500 to our future races. We have these races setup around our retreats with destinations set in Mexico, France, Bali, and New York to name just a few.

Our greatest success so far has been the Santa Monica Boardwalk 5k/10k Walk & Run. This is a really fun event that I came up with after researching all the races in the LA area. With little surprise, I realized all the runs were through the city grid. Seriously, who wants to run through blocks and blocks of city? The view here is gorgeous and so little traffic on the boardwalk makes it nice for even beginners to run on the course.

I hope to see everyone out at our events. Feel free to ask me about volunteering or running. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning