Announcement from American Trail Running Association (ATRA) member and Event Standard Program Partner GU Energy Labs.
Raspberry Lemonade Energy Gel is crafted with a favorite summertime combination of sweet and juicy raspberry topped off with delicious lemonade.
GU Gives is proud to donate 10% of proceeds from Raspberry Lemonade Energy Gels to Rising Hearts!
Mission
Rising Hearts is committed to elevating Indigenous voices, promoting and supporting intersectional collaborative efforts across all movements in cultivating community with the goals of racial, social, climate, and economic justice.
GU Raspberry Lemonade Energy Gel
GU Gives Pillars: Environmental Stewardship & Physical Movement
Guided by our core values of accountability, longevity, and love, GU Gives is honored to support Rising Hearts and its Running on Native Lands initiative – a program that aims to make it common practice to acknowledge a respectful connection with the land, recognizing that the trails and roads we are privileged to run on are borrowed. This initiative furthers justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion for all runners to feel more included and respected in outdoor spaces.
Together with Rising Hearts, all of us can help make the running community and outdoor places where we play more accessible, safe, supportive, inclusive, and visible.
Raspberry Lemonade Facts
- Calories Per Serving: 100
- Carbs Per Serving: 23g
- Sodium Per Serving: 55mg
- Caffeine: None (kid-friendly!)
- Gluten-Free: Yes
- Vegan: Yes
- Kosher: Yes
- Price of 24ct Box: $38.40
- Price of 8ct Box: $12.80
- Price of Gel: $1.60
In celebration of this partnership, 8-pack special-edition packaging features the art of Indigenous ultrarunner Yatika Starr Fields (Osage, Muscogee, Cherokee). Learn about heart work with Yatika at the 2022 Western States Endurance Run.
The Running on Native Lands Initiative is a Rising Hearts program that aims to make land acknowledgements at trail and road race events a common and inclusive practice and encourages those who become a partner to go the extra mile by giving back to the communities which the land is borrowed from.
More Info
Rising Hearts: risinghearts.org
Running on Native Lands: risinghearts.org/nativelands
Rising Hearts Instagram: @rising_hearts
Jordan Marie Whetstone Instagram: @nativein_la
Jordan Marie Whetstone founded Rising Hearts in January 2017 to:
- Ensure that all runners (not just Indigenous) feel safe, seen, and heard in spaces
- Foster intersectional collaboration
- Build and cultivate community in meaningful ways
Running on Native Lands: to live in kinship with the lands, is to live in kinship with each other.
This initiative creates every opportunity for us, as people, to gain a new perspective, to show up, to learn, to support, and give visibility to the first peoples. This initiative serves as an additional justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (JEDI) component to the work many are doing right now to rebuild a better, supportive, and more inclusive future for everyone.
Be a Good Relative – look at the bottom of the packet!
Being relatives to the land, to each other = naturally having more care and compassion if you see the land as a part of you, part of the same system that is woven together.
Great video to watch and podcast to listen to:
- Go Gently Episode: Connection to the Lands with Jordan Marie Daniel
- Gear Junkie Podcast: Running for Justice: Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel
