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Austin Marathon Trash Run Today!

18th October, 2011 - Posted by katherine - No Comments

Today is the last trash run, sponsored by the Livestrong Austin Marathon.  You can get a work out in and collect trash to beautify our city, and you get free food at the end.  Today’s run meets at Double Dave’s on 3000 Duval street at 6:00. Here’s some info from the website:

“Do you like to run? And do you like our beautiful city of Austin? Want to let these interests mix, combining running with an opportunity to keep our city beautiful? Then join the staff of the LIVESTRONG® Austin Marathon and Half Marathon® for our summer series of trash runs!

In order to give back to the Austin community that we love, the LIVESTRONG® Austin Marathon and Half Marathon® team is organizing groups for our “Run, Recycle, Refuel” events. The goal is to run along different sections of the Austin Marathon® and Austin Half Marathon® race route, pick up waste along the streets, and finish the run by rewarding the efforts of the volunteers with happy hours at a local neighborhood restaurant.

The organizing staff and volunteers will meet at 6:00pm and plan on running from 6:15pm to 7:00pm, wrapping up the run at the restaurant with happy hour until 8:00pm. Each run would cover about 2-4 miles and locations would rotate to cover different neighborhoods on our race routes. Helping the effort will be local businesses, government agencies, eco-friendly advocates, and area runners. Any and all additional support would be greatly appreciated!

So turn on your GU-dar and join our intrepid team of trash runners for a 3-mile trashlek on the Austin city streets—no trasholes allowed! (Don’t understand that last sentence? Check out our friends at Atayne for an explanation.) And to top it off, each of the runs will be followed by a happy hour at one of Austin’s many great restaurants!”