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Mike Freed
Jacksonville native and Olympic athlete Garrett Scantling will be the lead runner kicking off the Freed to Run 5k, which will finish at the Duval County Courthouse Saturday, November 19, at 4 p.m., when the event is expected to have reached or exceeded its $2.25 million goal to endow Jacksonville Area Legal Aid’s Northeast Florida Medical Legal Partnership (NFMLP).
The 5k is the last leg of a multi-marathon event that begins November 14 in Tallahassee, with relay teams of runners completing a marathon on each of six consecutive days. Freed to Run began in 2017 as a solo act by Gunster’s Mike Freed and has since inspired hundreds of runners and dozens of companies and organizations to join him in the annual effort, now in its sixth year.
