The U.S.-Mexico 10K Race That Unites Two Cities on the Border

Among the three thousand runners at the seventh Run Internacional 10K, in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, a few outfits stood out. Rarámuri runners sported flowing, colorful skirts. A group calling themselves the Mascarunners wore lucha libre attire. But perhaps no runner’s dress better embodied the spirit of the event than Roman Sandoval’s. The El Pasoan wore a matching top and bottom depicting a U.S. and Mexican flag being stitched together. “I’m a U.S. Army combat veteran, so I went to war for America, but my mom’s from Mexico,” he said. “Gotta represent both sides.”Kicked off in 2015 as the culmination of a U.S.-Mexico border conference organized by then-Congressman Beto O’Rourke, Run Internacional celebrates the region’s binational identity. Half the race—which skipped 2018, 2020, 2021,…

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