Hope ahead: St. Jude kicks off Marathon Weekend in Downtown Memphis
Paul Barlow speaks during the press conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, before Saturday’s St. Jude Marathon. On stage to his right is a portrait of his son, David, a former St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital patient. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Runners await the start of the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Dec. 2, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis will host 22,500 participants, including a record 1,800 patient family members, for this year’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend.
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Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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