Author: One World Running

Join OWR at the Inagural Mother Earth Trail Run June 22

Mother Earth/Mother Tongue Trail Race/Run 5K and Half-Marathon 2013 Inaugural Event Saturday June 22, 2013 Registration:  7:00-7:50 am Race/Run Start:  8:00 am Greenwood Powwow Grounds, Greenwood, SD Finish at Cedar Church with Food Celebration/Awards Ceremony Prayer Race/Run to encourage Revitalization of the L/D/Nakota Language, MotherTongue Language of the Iháŋtȟuŋwaŋ Oyáte while promoting health and fitness […]

Precious Feet Fundraiser – Friends and Family

We appreciate your support over the years. So as friends and family of One World Running we are offering you a special discount to the Precious Feet Fundraiser and Boulder Sports Hall of Fame Dinner. Please join us the evening of Sept. 29th at the Spice of Life for a special evening. Thank  you again […]

2011 One World La Farola Run

One World Running helped the city of Baracoa, Cuba, celebrate its 500th anniversary by putting on the first annual La Farola “Marathon,” a 31K up and down an engineering marvel of a road called La Farola. Many of the best runners from the island showed up for the event, part of a yearly festival. Each […]

OWR in Belize

The wide shape appeared suddenly in front of me, looming out of the early-morning darkness as I ran along the water in this sleepy coastal town. Thinking it could be a jaguar, I darted to the side of the road before seeing that it was a woman, a bit heavy, walking briskly. She had on […]

Shoes for Kilimanjaro Guide

Shoes for Kili Guide, originally uploaded by One World Running. Thanks to Todd Alexander for making sure shoes got onto the feet of porters in Moshi, Tanzania. The porters often do not get much attention, but they are the ones who carry much of the loads that allow visitors to make it to the to […]

Barefoot Ascent of Pikes Peak to Raise Funds

Michael Sandrock, a journalist and volunteer with the One World Running shoe project, will be racing Saturday’s Pikes Peak Ascent barefoot, as a fundraiser for the project, which collects and distributes new and used shoes in developing nations and in the U.S. Sandrock is collecting pledges for each mile of the ascent. The run starts […]

City of Boulder’s Youth Services Initiative

City of Boulder’s Youth Services Initiative, originally uploaded by One World Running. City of Boulder’s Youth Services Initiative came and sorted and boxed shoes on May 19, with 65 local local low-income teenagers receiving shoes. They and their coach, Alex Zinga, ran and walked the Memorial Day Bolder Boulder 10K. This all part of an […]

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Shoe distribution in Kenya to local school children.
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