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Kari Gormley is a fellow podcaster and long time listener to MTA.
Last year was she able to rase $8,000 for the charity Action for Healthy Kids while training for the Chicago and New York City Marathons.
Many runners choose to enter one of the big six marathons (Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Berlin, Tokyo) on a charity bib.
In this interview Kari gives fund raising tips for those running a marathon for charity. Get the $$$ without wearing down your friends and family.
Most large marathons have a number of charity partners. In recent years, the Boston Marathon field had typically been made up of 27,000 runners—roughly 22,000 qualifiers (approximately 82 percent) and 5,000 exempt runners (18 percent) participating on behalf of a charity or a sponsor. [1]
The NYC Marathon typically fields between 8-9 thousand charity runners each year. Approximately 27% of Chicago’s 37,000 runners are charity participants. The London Marathon currently has the largest charity runners at 40% (or around 13,750 spots) of the field. [2]
Sources
[1] running.competitor.com/2014/05/news/boston-2015_100855#wMmWkbziI86JjZZT.99
[2] runnersworld.com/newswire/charity-running-more-competitive-than-ever
The Running Lifestyle Show -Kari’s podcast/blog
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The New Jersey Marathon. Angie will be running this marathon on May 1st.
Kari and Serena before the NYC Marathon
You can catch our 2014 interview on the Running Lifestyle Show here.
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