For beginning runners and walkers, people who are returning to running or walking, or for those who simply want to live a more active lifestyle. The group was begun by Runner's World columnist John "the Penguin" Bingham. The group name comes from the Penguin credo: "The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."

For more information about John or the Penguin phenomenon, go to http://www.johnbingham.com