"Run 4 Your Life"

The first annual “Run 4 Your Life” event is set for Sunday, September 7. Run 4 Your Life, sponsored by the Putnam County Department of Health, is actually three events of various distances, starting at 10 a.m. with a 5 kilometer (3.1 miles) race, followed by a one-mile walk and a Kids’ Half-Mile Fun Run. All events will start and finish at One Geneva Road in Brewster. Online registration is now open. To register online or to download an entry blank, visit the health department’s webpage at www.putnamcountyny.gov/health.

The first 125 runners or walkers to register will receive a performance t-shirt, a commemorative 16-ounce race glass and a one-month membership at New York Sports Club. Race awards will be given to the first overall male and female winners and the top age category winners. All walkers and Kids’ Fun Run finishers will receive commemorative medals.