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June 4, 2014 (Sacramento):  The Sacramento Running Association plans to give away more than 100 pairs of running shoes at its youth track meet Thursday at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento.

The SRA has already donated several hundred pairs of shoes to local school athletic programs and to Hiram Johnson High School鈥檚 Family Advocate Program. It plans to give away more shoes to Sacramento inner-city elementary school children Thursday at 3 p.m. with the assistance of Burbank High School athletes and standout SRA runners Shadrack Biwott and Dominique Jackson.

The youth track meet, for Sacramento City Unified School District students in grades 3-6, begins at 3:30 p.m. at Burbank鈥檚 state-of-the-art sports complex. The shoe giveaway will take place between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. as students arrive in buses for the track meet.

鈥淲e gathered shoes from local runners at a variety of events, including the CIM Expo,鈥� said Scott Abbott, the SRA鈥檚 Director of Sponsorship Sales. 鈥淲e got such a big response at the Expo. You know how runners are: They run a few hundred miles and buy new shoes鈥�95 percent of the shoes are in excellent shape.鈥�

The Sacramento Running Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding ways to encourage people of all ages and abilities to run. The SRA is committed to developing new, quality running events that appeal to a broad variety of runners.

鈥淲e are so grateful to SRA for supporting our youth and thrilled that our students will have access to well-made athletic shoes,鈥� said 麻豆果冻传媒 Interim Superintendent Dr. Sara Noguchi. 鈥淚鈥檓 positive having high-quality shoes will inspire our students to reach new levels of health and fitness.鈥�

What: Sacramento Running Association Shoe Giveaway
Where: Luther Burbank Sports Complex, 3500 Florin Road, Sacramento
When:  3 p.m. on Thursday, June 5