ChronicleOnline: Big strides for little legs
Big strides for little legs
Students run marathon to support LifeSouth
photo by MATTHEW BECK | Hundreds of children participated in the final leg of the second annual Five Points of Life Kids Marathon, a program run by LifeSouth Community Blood Centers and the Five Points of Life Foundation. The event was held Friday evening at the Lecanto High School track.
By Cheri Harris
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
LECANTO — The official reason behind the 2011 Five Points of Life Kids Marathon, a program of LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, is to raise awareness about five ways to share life with others: through giving blood, apheresis, bone marrow and umbilical cord blood, as well as organ and tissue donation. But it seemed many participants in the event Friday evening at the Lecanto High School track came mostly because they love to run.
Bruce Sheffield, coordinator of health, physical education and special programs for Citrus County schools, said elementary and middle school students who wanted to participate in the Kids Marathon started running the standard 26.2 miles incrementally last December, either during PE class or after school.
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