The American Volkssport Association (AVA) is an educational nonprofit founded in 1976. AVA’s mission is to promote fun, fitness and friendships. Volkssporting is a noncompetitive fitness and recreational program that started in Germany. Volkssporting consists of walking, hiking, swimming and biking. 

There are around 300 clubs that host over 3,000 Volkssporting events each year in the United States. The Sacramento Walking Sticks is a nonprofit founded in 1984, and the nation’s largest AVA affiliated walking club. Sacramento Walking Sticks is run 100% by volunteers.

Walking Sticks is very loyal to their volunteers they see them as family. Earlier this year in late May Charles (Charlie) Fowble past away at the age of 77, Fowble was a faithful walker, a member of Walking Sticks and a retired Vietnam Veteran... Read More

$1.5 Million Grant for Sutter’s Landing Park

Photo Credit: Robert Sewell

On November 28, 2012, the California Natural Resources Agency awarded the City of Sacramento a $1.5 million River Parkways grant for Sutter’s Landing Park to restore habitat and improve river access from Midtown to the American River Parkway.  The American River Parkway is one of the most important contiguous habitat and recreation open spaces in the region and state, attracting millions of visitors annually.

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If you can swim a lap (barely)...
If you can ride a bike...
If you can walk a block...

You CAN do a Triathlon!

Join Mama Bootcamp for a fun and informative evening to kick off our Triathlon training season.

There will be two sessions:

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