While most athletic events around the Wyoming Valley and nation were being canceled, a group of runners gathered in downtown Pittston to help promote a 10-mile run scheduled for September.
The Wyoming Valley Run held its second group run of the year on Thursday with about 35 runners turning out for a 4.5-mile jaunt through Pittston, West Pittston and Exeter. The run started and finished at the Pittston YMCA.
Thursday’s run served as a reminder that race registration is open.
The Sept. 6 race is the brain-child of Ben Robinson and is being organized by Endless Mountains Running. It will start in Pittston and primarily follow Wyoming Avenue to the Market Street Bridge and into Wilkes-Barre.
“I was thinking of having a race in Wilkes-Barre because there hasn’t been one in a long time,” Robinson said at a group run earlier this year. “I just looked at a big map and started putting things together, and thought Wyoming Avenue is the perfect flat course.
“I figured from Pittston to Wilkes-Barre is such a cool selling point that people would really enjoy the course.”
Earlier in the day, the popular Scranton Half Marathon was postponed due to the Coronavirus. It was just one of a myriad of sports cancellations and postponements throughout the country, including the NCAA Division I men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.
