Dallas Running Club Sponsors Marines

Members of the Dallas Running Club have set up a program where they sponsor Marines abroad in their running. It sounds like a pretty good plan where they assist other runners and connect them to a broader running community.

The plan is to have each Marine assigned a Dallas running buddy, who will communicate long distance, offering marathon training tips, accountability and encouragement leading up to the club’s DRC Half in November. Wherever the troops happen to be the day of the race, they’ll set up a 13.1-mile course and, hopefully, run it simultaneously.

This is one of the things that running clubs should strive to do — connect with other runners and would be runners in their community. Just because someone is abroad serving for our country doesn’t exclude them from being in our community.

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