Run/Walk Tuesday To Support Victims of Tragedy in Boston

The bombings at the Boston Marathon have shaken the running world, but runners will not quit.

"It's a terrible, terrible thing," Karen Levin, owner of Fleet Feet in Pikesville said Tuesday about the Monday bombings.

Along with other running stores in the area and the country, however, Fleet Feet is dedicating its 6 p.m. Tuesday run to those who are and were in Boston.

"Mainly to say, 'We are there with them, we are running in solidarity, and we are going to continue to run,'" she said.

While the runners Levin and her husband Bobby know made it through the marathon without injury, she said she has heard that there "were some injured from Maryland."

A Cockeysville resident was among them. Read the report on Hunt Valley-Cockeysville Patch.

A close friend of Levin's had finished the race and was in the shower when she heard the blast, Levin said.

According to a report by The Huffington Post, 140 were injured and three dead, including an 8-year-old boy, after two explosions went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

President Barack Obama has called it "an act of terrorism," according to another Huffington Post report.

"All of us in the running community mourn this attack on our peaceful sport, and our thoughts and prayers are with those who suffer," a message on Fleet Feet's website states. "Please join us in dedicating the next miles you run, whether they be a block or 4-mile training run/walk at a time, to the people of Boston."

During the regularly scheduled Fleet Feet run Tuesday, all are welcome to attend, Levin said. Participants can run or walk, and it's offered at no cost.

Those who have racing jerseys are asked to wear them, or to wear blue and gold if possible, she added.

Evening run/walks are held at the store, 1809 Reisterstown Rd, at 6 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday evening.