St. Louis Marathon & Half Marathon

April 15, 2012 | Downtown St. Louis | St. Louis, MO

Run for Clean Water in 2012!

For the last two years, hundreds of men and women have trained together and competed in the GO! St. Louis half marathon on behalf of those who need clean drinking water. This year we are adding the option for the marathon relay (4 person team/6.5 miles per person). Although the TLW training program is free, all runners will be required to raise funds and/or donate personally to Living Water International. Each participant must register on their own for the actual race at www.gostlouis.org and pay their own race fee (a link will be provided to register for the charity discount). Help us spread the word about the global water crisis and Living Water International www.water.cc. If you or your friends are running but don't have a charity to support, please consider joining Team LWI St. Louis.

What's next?

TRAINING

All runners will have the option of joining TLW at one of two weekly group long runs from January - April:

Tuesday morning in the Chesterfield area at 9:00 a.m. or
Saturday morning in the St. Louis area at 7:30 a.m.

Coach Judy West and a crew of 15 captains will be on site to organize, encourage, and support runners at each gathering. Who is Judy West? Judy was a former Pennsylvania State Track Champion and was awarded the Christy Matheson Top Female Athlete at Bucknell University. She still holds the Bucknell 10k records of 35:05, won 11 East Coast Conference titles during her college career, and was inducted into the BU Hall of Fame in 2008. She not only coached at the NCAA Divison 1 level, but also launched and coached Team Windsor, one of the nation's largest running and walking groups, for 9 years. She won handfuls of races over the years in STL, including St. Pat's 5-Miler, All Sport Half-Marathon, Army to Arch Half-Marathon.

Judy will be sending emails on a weekly basis to encourage and challenge TLW. For more info please email run@wcrossing.org. To contact the TLW trainer, Rachel Bergman, contact www.wholefit.org.

Run. Be a champion for the thirsty.