FOX CITIES, Wis. (WFRV) - The three-day Community First Fox Cities Marathon weekend began on Friday night with races for the youngest runners.
Hundreds of kids participated in a variety of racing opportunities at Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium on Friday evening. The event featured a diaper dash crawl for the babies, an obstacle course toddler trot on the field, and a chance to run the bases for the older kids.
Later in the evening, there was a quarter and half mile race around the baseball field for the kids and even a mascot race. Event organizers tell Local 5 News it's their priority to have people of all paces, abilities, and ages be able to experience the electricity of a race atmosphere.
Organizers said that about 4000 people will participate in all the different ev