The students participating in the Pattonville Half Marathon Club have successfully completed the 13.1 mile run. The club has been an active group at Pattonville for several years and is organized through Go! St. Louis.

About four months ago, the club started training, running about three miles as a team and then slowly increasing their miles until they are up to twelve mile runs.

It was Katie Hutchison-Dibello’s first year running with the club.

“I liked the training schedule a lot because we got to run often and everyone did it as a team,” she said.

The group typically ran on Mondays and Wednesdays and then did the long runs with schools all across the St. Louis area on Saturdays at Forest Park.

The students received free shoes as an incentive, along with two shirts and a jacket once they finished the race.

On the day of the race, the participating students had to be at the school at 5 in the morning in order to get on a bus to be taken downtown for the race itself.

“It was an awesome environment downtown,” Hutchison-Dibello said. “Everyone was so hype and supportive of one another so I had a lot of fun.”

In total, 60 students and eight teachers completed the half marathon and after four months of training, the hard work paid off.

Below are the times of each student according to the Go! St. Louis website: