Fifty-four-year-old Scientologist from Monrovia, California, runs to combat violence and help youth make the right moral choices.
Ultra-marathoner John Radich is already training for the May 2010 launch of a 3,700-mile run to promote moral values. His Trans USA Run will follow historic Route 66 from Santa Monica to Chicago, and will carry on from there to New York City and Washington, DC.
Along the route, John will hand out The Way To Happiness, a non-religious moral code based wholly on common sense that can serve as a guide to better living. “Violence is a fact of life in our society, ” says Radich. “It doesn’t have to be that way. If youth learn common-sense values they can make the right choices.”
In addition to distributing booklets, Radich will hand out The Way To Happiness DVDs containing the unabridged book on film.
Radich, 54, has completed hundreds of ultra marathons and covered 30,000 miles since his first in 1979, raising over $100,000 for charities in the process.
He is a nine-time finisher of the 135-mile Badwater Run from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney, known as one of the world’s toughest races. He is a three-time Arizona Six-Day Run winner for 2005, 2006 and 2007 and has also run in the Angeles Crest 100-miler. In 1999 John ran for Human Rights from Athens, Greece, to Hamburg, Germany.
For more information or to help sponsor the program, visit the website at http://www.thetransusarun.blogspot.com/ or e-mail John at thetransusarun@gmail.com.
