Syracuse.com - Lopez Lomong home and inviting local runners to 5K fun run at Tully High School

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The event will take place Friday evening. Half of the proceeds will be given to the Tully boys running club; the other half to the Lopez Lomong Foundation (4 South Sudan).

Two-time Olympian Lopez Lomong is scheduled to appear at a "meet and greet" 5K fun run and 1 mile walk at 6 p.m. Friday at Tully High School.

Registration for the event begins at 5:30 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 for adults; and $5 for students. Lopez T-shirts and his book, "Running for my Life," will also be sold.

Lomong is a graduate of Tully High School. Half of the proceeds will be given to the Tully boys running club; the other half to the Lopez Lomong Foundation (4 South Sudan).

Lomong recently ran in the World Track and Field Championships in Moscow (1,500 meters) and the Fifth Avenue Mile Run in Manhattan.

"He's home for a week or so," said Jim Paccia, the Tully Boys Cross Country coach. "He misses the camaraderie he had with all the members of his former high school team and the local running community. He wants a reunion of sorts with those runners."

Awards will be given to the top males and female in three divisions: 6 to 14 years, 15 to 20 years and 20 years and older.

"Participants can race or just run with Lopez," Paccia said.

For further information, 439-3147.

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