Running for a cure: 4K for Cancer runners visit Parkersburg on coast-to-coast run

PARKERSBURG—Friday morning a group of determined young people ran through Parkersburg on their trek from San Francisco to Boston.
     Each of the 24 runners, ages 18-25, who make up Team Boston has a story to tell. The 4K for Cancer program participants are running to raise money for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults. On Friday, they were on day 27 of their trip. They started on June 17 and will finish the run August 4. Every day, they run from six to 16 miles.
     “Every morning we have a dedication circle before we start running, and we write people’s names on our arms and our legs whom we’re dedicating that day to, so a lot of us have like family members’ or family friends’ [names] written on our legs, and so as you’re running, like yesterday we had a 100-degree day when we were running through Iowa, it’s for those people,” runner Karan Narula from Seattle said. “That’s what keeps us going.”
     Narula runs for his grandmother, who battled colon cancer and for his aunt who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
 
Read more in the July 19 edition of the TRIBUNE.