Over a dozen women from 100 Mile House were among the more than 2,100 runners boogieing in Kamloops on April 27.
The annual Boogie The Bridge event sees runners and walkers complete distances of one-kilometre, five-km, 10-km and 21-km for charity.
Funds this year – the event raised $143,000 – went to the Youth Club Program run by the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Family Tree Family Centre in Kamloops.
“We went and did it and it was a blast,” says Lori Cleave, who helped organize the 100 Mile House team. “Our entire team did fantastic. There were five girls who ran their first [10-km runs] and Susan Connaty did her first 21-km half-marathon, and she absolutely rocked it.”
The annual race starts in downtown Kamloops and crosses Overlanders Bridge. It’s a family-orientated event and participants walked, biked, used roller-blades and pushed strollers completing course.
Cleave says the local runners decided to become a travelling team to help raise money for those in need.
