Thousands run in the annual Two Cities Marathon

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- 4,100 registered runners. Representing 25 states. And six countries. Many dedicating Sunday's Two Cities Marathon to a mislaid loved one.

"A batch of radical don't recognize that adjacent if it happened a week, a year, 2 years -- we inactive consciousness the aforesaid symptom each day. I privation radical to cognize that they're not forgotten," runner Gabriela Espinoza said.

With each measurement of her run, Espinoza moving successful representation of her parent who died from COVID-19, arsenic good arsenic her son.

Espinoza besides moving with a photograph of Estrella Ramirez, a young parent of 4 who precocious died successful a car accident.

"I don't cognize them personally, but I cognize what it feels to suffer idiosyncratic and I conscionable privation them to cognize that I'm determination -- adjacent if I'm conscionable a stranger; there's radical retired determination who case," Espinoza said.

Participants crossing the decorativeness enactment arsenic volunteers placed a Two Cities medal astir their neck.

The medal commemorating some Fresno and Clovis connected each broadside of the medal.

Runner Bryan Banuelos astonishing himself by winning his archetypal fractional marathon race.

"I did beauteous good. I did amended than I expected, truthful it felt good," Banuelos said.

Although the 23-year-old Fresno Pacific way and tract jock does not person semipermanent plans to scope the Olympics, helium is funny successful pursuing moving for the clip being.

"It's a God-given talent, I mightiness arsenic good spot however acold it tin instrumentality me," Banuelos said.

In its entirety, the terms tag for an lawsuit connected this standard costing upwards of $200,000.

"It's precise expensive, but worthy it. Well worthy it," proprietor of Fleet Feet Fresno and Two Cities Marathon Aaron Samansky said. "I mean the assemblage successful Fresno, specified a large moving community, walking community, fittingness community. We merit thing similar this and I anticipation to support it going arsenic agelong arsenic we can."

It takes months of readying to enactment connected an lawsuit of this size and scope.

The Two Cities Marathon relying connected the practice from Fresno and Clovis to grip each of the roadworthy closures and information to support each runners and spectators safe.

The youngest runner successful this year's race, a 4-year-old. The oldest, 86 years old.

ABC30 takes portion successful Two Cities Marathon

Several of our ABC30 colleagues were a portion of the much than 4,100 runners successful the Two Cities Marathon.

Action News Anchor Jessica Harrington ran the afloat marathon, beating her idiosyncratic record.

Our shaper Rudy ran the fractional marathon and meteorologist Christine Gregory participated successful the 5k.

Congratulations to our friends connected each their hard work!

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