`Run For Their Lives` Raises Money For Local Charities Saturday

The Run For Their Lives 5K Run/Walk, sponsored by Bank of the Ozarks and KARK-TV Channel 4, kicks off at 8:00am, Saturday, in downtown Little Rock. You can still sign up for the race Saturday morning on site. The event has raised over $500,000 for area youth organizations including LT Care, Young Life, P.A.R.K., Fellowship of Christian Athletes, STEP, Inc. and Ministry to the Inner City. This years race features the strongest field ever and there is a good chance that both the mens and womens overall 5K state road records will be broken. Former University of Arkansas track stars Andrew and Amy Yoder Begley, along with Daniel Lincoln, will challenge the 5K record times. Andrew Begley, an Indiana native, is a two-time All-American at the University of Arkansas from 1997-2001 currently resides in Kendallville, Indiana, where he and his wife, Amy, train together and manage the Yoder Begley Running Camp. Begley was a 2-time NCAA All-American and a member of 9 NCAA championship teams at Arkansas. Amy Yoder Begley, a 15-time All-American at the University of Arkansas and the 2004 U.S. 10K road champion, holds the state road record of 16:02 that she set in last years race. Earlier this spring, she ran a 15:55 in Japan and is in top form for another record run. Daniel Lincoln, a 2004 Olympian and the only American to have ever won 3 straight NCAA 3000 meter steeplechase titles, could break the existing state road record of 14:18. He has run the mile under 4:00 and last month competed as a member of the U.S. team in the world cross country championships in Japan. QUICK FACTS WHAT: