Larry Brown is 12 years old and fast — so fast that he won Allied Drive’s first one-mile race this week, running in his socks. The crowd in Marlborough Park was cheering when he finished in 6 minutes, 30 seconds. And it kept on cheering as 43 other neighborhood children crossed the finish line behind him.
….”It’s not about who came in first or who came in last. It’s about finishing the race,” says the children’s proud trainer, Molly Kloosterboer, a University of Wisconsin Medical School student who started the Miler in Training program at Allied Drive this summer with the help of the Madison Schools and Community Recreation (MSCR) summer program, the medical school and Fleet Feet Sports, a locally owned store on Old Sauk Road.