About SRO
Students Run Oakland is a non-profit, non-competitive athletic and mentoring program in Oakland, California, that trains low-income students from inner-city public high schools to run a 26.2-mile marathon. Training for a marathon teaches at-risk youth the values of goal setting, discipline, and commitment, which improves their attitudes about school and helps develop skills for life.
Students in SRO are involved in a demanding athletic activity that requires a healthy and substance-free lifestyle -- and because the goal of completing a marathon is so formidable, students who reach that goal are transformed mentally as well as physically.