Thanks to the always awesome Stephanie Farr at The Philadelphia Inquirer for the nice Fraud Street Run recap and David Maialetti for the lovely photos.
“In the spirit of the race, many runners ran less than 11 miles, but called reports of them doing otherwise “fake news.” The event raised more than $50,000 for charity.
Though the unexpected popularity of the run forced race organizers Jeff Lyons and Chip Chantry (hosts of the Junk Miles podcast) to make the race all-virtual — meaning anyone in the world could participate by running an 11-mile course of their choosing Saturday or Sunday — several dozen runners still showed up in Northeast Philly early Sunday to run the race as it was intended, from the “famous” Four Seasons Total Landscaping to the “lesser-known” Four Seasons hotel in Center City (making for a better turnout than the news conference itself, as one Twitter user noted).”