6 marathons in 6 days: Runners raising money for Northeast Florida pediatric patients
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – On Monday, a local attorney and a team of runners will kick off their annual Freed to Run — six marathons in six days.
It’s all to raise money to help provide legal services to Northeast Florida pediatric patients and their families.
“I just wanted to do something everybody could be for, and nobody could be against,” Mike Freed, the founder of Freed to Run, told News4JAX.
Freed will be the first to tell you he’s not a natural-born athlete. But helping others through running has become his passion. Getting to this point though did not happen overnight.
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“I was not a runner up until that point,” Freed said. “I started running for about eight months to sort of make sure I could do it without dying, and apparently, I could.”
On Nov. 14, the runners of “Freed to Run” will once again lace up their running shoes for the “six marathons in six days.”