You Are Invited!
9 million people watched.
… as GirlTrek’s tiny staff of 10 Black women walked 100 miles on The Underground Railroad in five days.
So many emails, text messages and calls. You said:
“We want to do it too!!!”
Now is your chance!
YOU ARE INVITED: Next year, September 28, 2024, 10,000 Black women will walk 21 miles on The Underground Railroad, starting in the exact location that Harriet Tubman made her first escape. We will walk her average daily distance - 21 miles - in teams of 3, splitting the route into the divine number of 7 miles each.
After the Trek, we will celebrate our victory with an epic festival and headlining concert.
It’s the ironman of #BlackGirlHealing, the Woodstock of our generation, and we are calling it:
The Ultimate Freedom Trek!
Ready to join us?
You have exactly 12-months to qualify for a relay team.
Qualifying is not easy, but it will change your life. You don’t have to walk or run fast. You don’t have to do a rigorous distance. To qualify, you have to stay the course of walking five days a week for 30 minutes a day for at least one month this season.
When you succeed, we will award you golden shoelaces.
Only women who earn their golden shoelaces in 2023 can walk on The Underground Railroad with us in 2024.
For the women who’ve struggled to meet this GirlTrek milestone, do not worry.
We've got you.
Not only is our 2023 season packed full of your favorite campaigns (can you say new Black History Bootcamps!) BUT our national team is stepping up to the plate this year to personally inspire you!
GirlTrek’s national staff is ‘bout it. We are mothers, students, and elders. We are vegans and smokers. Some of us are PHDs, some ex-felons. We have saints and strippers, namastes and number crunchers, queer, queens and creatives, and our goal this year is to inspire you by going on a full blown self-care crusade!
We will complete every GirlTrek challenge, we will set ambitious health goals and document our journeys on social media, and we will go before you this September to scout the route and prepare for 2024.
We want to give you living examples of what it looks like to lose COVID weight, to source inspiration on cold mornings and to stay the course.
We start this crusade, on the sacred day of March 10th, 2023, Harriet Tubman Day. It’s a Friday and we are going to set it off across the country with 1,000 Harriet House Parties.
Harriet House Parties are a powerful way for women to come together and set intentions for the year, have conversations about their health, and make commitments about their walking.
We have a house party toolkit that includes activities for the party, recipes, playlist and more. If you are an old school Trekker then you already know. Harriet House Parties are a beautiful celebration of sisterhood and a real way to inspire your friends and family to join you on the journey to health.
Register to host your party here and get your toolkit now!
We believe Harriet is watching, and that this will be a powerful way to start the season and kickoff the training for the Ultimate Freedom Trek.
So much more to come!
Morgan (and Vanessa)
