Charity Runner
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy and service.

Over the years, more than 3,000 athletes have participated in endurance events as an American Cancer Society Charity Runner. You are invited to participate in this great event while raising funds and honoring and remembering those who have been touched by cancer. To date, the Charity Runner program has raised over $3 million dollars! Come be a part of Iowa's first ever Charity Runner event!

Share Your Story in Strider News
Our members run hundreds, even thousands, of races a year. Many are local events we've continued to run year after year because we like the course, it's a great race, or as needed incentive to keep training.

But every once in awhile that running event is special: It's in an exotic local, it's a distance you've never tried before, the conditions were particularly harsh (or beautiful), maybe it's one for which you trained particularly hard and you met/surpassed your race goal (or not). It's a compelling story and Strider members can relate - but not if they don't know about it.

Share your experience, in your own words, in Strider News. Don't worry if you don't consider yourself a writer, we have an excellent staff of editors who can help polish your story for publication. Oh, and a nice picture or two of the event helps bring your article to life.

For all the particulars on the submission guidelines for Strider News articles, click here.

If you know of an item that should be added, please contact us with your story. Pieces can be submitted via eMail and the decision as to whether an item will actually be published is at the discretion of the web master and the Capital Striders.