Article Source: The Daily Camera

Written by - Laura Snider - May 24th, 2009

Boulder High International Running Club participates in 10K

BOULDER, Colo. — Pauline Santino is hard to catch. Just when you think you've caught up to her, she lowers her head, leans forward into her stride and sprints out another hundred feet, leaving other runners behind.

Santino, one of the "Lost Girls of Sudan," will join 17 of her Boulder High classmates to run Monday's Bolder Boulder 10-kilometer race. For many in the group of culturally diverse students -- whose families have roots in countries such as Ecuador, Iran and Mexico -- finishing the race will mark the longest distance they've ever run.

And for these kids, all of whom have been identified as "at risk" for one reason or another -- a language barrier or a learning disability, for example -- running into the stadium and around Folsom Field at the end of the race will also mark the achievement of a goal that, even two weeks ago, seemed dauntingly hard.

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