LAKE RIDGE, Va. – Runners will gather tonight to honor the three people killed and nearly 200 injured during the Boston Marathon Bombings on Monday.
The Lake Ridge Ridge Runners Club invites all area residents to meet in the parking lot of Lake Ridge Elementary School at 7 p.m. for a moment of silence, and then proceed for a two-mile walk to honor the fallen and all those impacted by Monday’s terrorist attacks.
Lake Ridge Ridge Runners President Stephanie Drupal-DeMartin said no one from the club participated in this year’s Boston Marathon as they have in years past, but said the tragedy has affected the running community at large. Drupal-DeMartin also had a cousin who had just finished the race about a half hour before the bombs went off.
“It was very stressful to know my cousin was there after the bombings, but we were relived to find out she was OK,” said Drupal-DeMartin.
The running community is a tight knit one she added, and many from both Maryland and Virginia have expressed their condolences after yesterday’s attacks.
Everyone is invited to tonight’s walk whether they’re a Ridge Runners club member or not.
The intention is to bring people together, and instead of focus on darkness of these events, it’s to show our support of everyone’s courage yesterday, and that it’s important to keep going and to show up at next year’s Boston Marathon to run again,” said Drupal-DeMartin.
