They’ve run in packs. Walked alone. Played volleyball, horseshoes and rowed boats.

However they’ve chosen to move, participants in the Rankin Cancer Run have now pushed the amount raised past the $13-million mark since the inaugural event in 2006.

Run director Mary Ann Edwards said she never sets a fundraising goal for the annual event and has no expectations of passing a milestone.

“You just you never know until the money continues to come in and you go, wow and wow and wow. And all of a sudden you’re over $700,000 and you’re going, wow,” she said.

Donations of all sizes have made a difference.

“We just are grateful,” she said.

Donations are still coming in and being tallied for 2025, but she said the $13 million has been surpassed.

The first Rankin Run took place in May 2006 from

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