Maryland Running Festival Will Feature Half-Marathon
The event set for Oct. 20 near Six Flags America in Landover will include a 5K and a run for kids.
Organizers who hope to have running events in every state are starting this fall with the Maryland Running Festival in Prince George’s County. Registration opened last week for a half-marathon, a 5-kilometer (5K) run and a run for kids to be held Oct. 20 near Six Flags America in Landover. Clay Anderson and Ernesto Calderon, the organizers of the running festival, said they're working to attract 7,500 runners for the half-marathon, with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation named as the chief charitable beneficiary. “We really wanted to do something special,” Calderon said. “I thought to myself, ‘What can I do as a father, as a resident of Maryland, to make things better for the next generation?’” Anderson and Calderon are partners in Siena …
