42nd Annual Portland Marathon | October 6, 2013

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Speak with Your Feet - Remember Boston

The Portland Marathon’s charitable giving foundation “Going The Distance” has opened an official campaign on behalf of the Boston victims.  The Speak With Your Feet™ campaign will launch a series of promotions to raise funds and show support for our friends and colleagues at the Boston Marathon and the worldwide community of runners who participated there.

Remembering Boston

The Portland Marathon is a long time supporter of the Boston Marathon. The terrorist bombing in Boston is truly a shocking, terrible tragedy.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims and their families as well as all the others who have been impacted by this senseless violence.

It is heart breaking to have such a tragedy occur at an iconic event where people come together from all over the world to run, celebrate and rejoice in the power of running.  This act of violence in such a venue is not only shameful, but cowardly, especially because its targets included the innocent.  Indeed, everything possible should be done to capture and punish those responsible for these horrific deeds.

So, now in the face of this tragedy we now need to come together; to move forward in a positive way; to remember those who were so cruelly injured or who died; and to continue to run and walk in their memory and not allow fear to overtake us as the terrorist would want it to do so.

Since 9/11 in 2001 the Portland Marathon has worked closely with The City of Portland and Oregon State officials, the FBI and Homeland Security as well as other first responders and agencies to ensure a safe Portland Marathon course and a safe Start and Finish area.  We plan to review and further improve existing protocols to be sure everyone feels secure and as safe as possible for our October 6th Event.

So as we send our prayers and thoughts to those involved with Boston, let us not give in to fear.  Let us speak with our feet in the memory of those who died and were injured.  Surely they would want all of us to do that.

We will dedicate our Portland Marathon in October to the memory of all those impacted by this tragic Boston event.  And we will provide all our finishers with a token that carries forward the remembrance of those who suffered in Boston.

Les Smith
Event Director
Portland Marathon

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