Philly Style 8K

When participating in this race, runners have the unique opportunity to experience Students Run Philly Style up close as over 1,000 Students Run Philly Style youth will be running!

Founded in 2004, Students Run Philly Style has created a movement of healthy young people in Philadelphia — a movement­­ that has touched multiple generations of families and measurably impacted the lives of its participants. We pair students with caring adult mentors and ask them to achieve a seemingly impossible goal: run 13.1 or 26.2 miles. Students and mentors train side-by-side, creating meaningful relationships over hundreds of training miles. Youth are empowered as they overcome the challenges of long distance running, ultimately achieving their goals at the finish line and transferring that empowerment to other parts of their lives.

The Philly Style 8K is produced by Students Run Philly Style for the benefit of our youth. This is the first race of our spring season–for many students, their first organized race event! Proceeds from this event are returned back into the core program, allowing us to deepen our reach to Philly’s youth. But we can’t do it without support from the greater community.