The Prospect Park Track Club will raise money for the American Indian Community House at the second annual Race for Reconciliation on Nov. 24.
File photo courtesy of Marek Stepniowski/Prospect Park Track Club
For dedicated runners in need of a pre-Thanksgiving dinner fix, the Prospect Park Track Club is offering a different kind of turkey trot, where runners will get in their daily dose of exercise while taking a deeper look at their holiday traditions.
The Turkey Trot: Race for Reconciliation 5-Miler welcomes runners of all ages to have a fun Thanksgiving morning for a good cause. For the second year in a row, the track club is hosting the race in partnership with the American Indian Community House, a nonprofit that works to increase the visibility of the American Indian community.
While Thanksgiving Day races are a tradition in communities across the country, they often celebrate the surface-level story of the holiday — rather than acknowledging the “more complex” history. The Prospect Park Track Club, a non-profit organization that welcomes runners of all ages and uses each race they host to raise funds for various causes and organizations — like AICH — and is also working with the org to establish a more modern tradition.
“We have bibs that are distinctly charity bibs, and the entire cost of that goes directly to the American Indian Community House so it is exciting that those bibs sell out and they are some of the first bibs ordered for the race as folks are excited to give money to AICH,” said Laura Elliott, race director for this year’s Turkey Trot.
AICH was founded in 1969 to serve the needs of Native Americans in New York City and to “increase the visibility of American Indian cultures in an urban setting in order to cultivate awareness, understanding and respect,” according to the organization’s website.
Last year, AICH received nearly $20,000 in charitable donations from funds raised at the race,…
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