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Do you enjoy outdoor activities? Do you like to run, jog, or walk for health or recreation, but you wish other like-minded people were around to go running with you? Demopolis resident Lara McGraw faced this same situation, and decided to do something about it.

“It had been on my mind that people would enjoy getting out with other people,” McGraw said, “and after a while I started to think, maybe I’m supposed to start it.”

She called up her friends Lauren Cox and Amber Boone, and discovered they had each had the same idea. In short order, the Demopolis Run/Walk Club was born. They’ve been receiving a good response to their Facebook page, with over 200 followers already.

Their first meeting will be at Demopolis High School, this coming Saturday, February 22nd at 9:00 a.m. They plan to try to get a feel for what everyone is wanting out of the club, and form future meetings based on feedback from this first gathering.

“This will be more of an open ended event, with runners and walkers all together, and no set distance. We want to see what people are interested in. We plan to have future events at places like Foscue park, or even through neighborhoods,” McGraw added. Others will be set distances as well. It just depends on what the club members want as a whole, including details as far as what times to meet.

“We seem to have a lot of people interested. I can’t wait to see how this first meeting goes!”