We Run These Streets 5K run\/walk<\/a> is Oct. 4 at 8 a.m.
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All community members and organizations are invited to participate as runners, walkers, volunteers, cheerleaders, spectators and more
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The race aims to improve community health not only by building endurance and fitness but also by building community
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Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg\u00a0conducted a health equity study, examining three zip codes in South St. Pete that revealed health\u00a0disparities<\/p>\nSixty-one-year-old Elaine Dogan said she\u2019s been intentional about training for the 5K run\/walk. She joined a newly formed running club that helps walkers and runners prepare for the 5K race.<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, it had not made it to my bucket list yet, but I was trying to get out and be a part of groups,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Dogan says she can\u2019t remember a time a 5K race was held in her predominantly Black, South St. Pete community, let alone seeing the people there running in one.<\/p>\n
She said that based on her experience; she thinks she knows why.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause our lifestyles,” she said. “It\u2019s not so much the diet. It\u2019s other things incorporated into that. The family issue, the work issue, the financial issue, the responsibilities that we carry.”<\/p>\n
Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg CEO Kanika Tomalin said she\u2019s hoping the race will help change lives and minds when it comes to being healthy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a 16-year age gap between people who live in Campbell Park and people who live in Snell Isle here in St. Pete,” she said. “That\u2019s four miles apart but 16 years\u2019 difference in likelihood of early death.”<\/p>\n
Using data from their health equity study shows races like this 5K can make a true impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no genetic difference to which these changes can be attributed. There is no specific difference other than environmental factors and people\u2019s opportunities and access,\u201d Tomalin said.<\/p>\n
The Foundation\u2019s impact officer, Joshua Bean, said there will be no shortage of accessibility at this race.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re gonna have over 25 health and wellness vendors, said Bean. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna have a DJ; we\u2019re gonna have a 360-photo booth. We\u2019re gonna have food and drinks; we\u2019re gonna have musical activations on the trail. Drummers, high school band members. Urban League has a cheering section.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an approach that\u2019s already picking up speed whether you\u2019re running or walking, like Dogan<\/p>\n
\u201cI can do my part; I can do it. And then that way, I\u2019m strengthening my own body so I can do other stuff with other groups,\u201d Dogan said. After walking the race route with her at her speed, she might leave the race with more than that. She might just get a medal.<\/p>\n
The \u201cWe Run These Streets 5K\u201d is Saturday at 8 a.m. located at 2333 34th St. S. in St. Pete. Runners and walkers must register. Registration is $20, but the foundation doesn\u2019t want cost to be a barrier, so they are providing waivers for those who need them.<\/p>\n
Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg officials said any registration fees collected for We Run These Streets go directly to the Good Sweat Foundation to support their youth running program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014\u00a0A 5K race isn\u2019t anything new in the Tampa Bay area, but it is new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3948,28,571,115,596,4368,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,835],"class_list":["post-13960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-health","tag-florida","tag-health","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-saundra-weathers","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}