Student members of the Crescenta Valley Running Club boarded a school bus at 5 a.m. on Saturday morning to travel to Irving for the Southern California Half Marathon, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.
The students are training to run the Los Angeles Marathon through the Students Run L.A. program.
Each year students join the program through Rosemont Middle School and train with teacher mentors for the marathon.
The kids run after school in the neighborhoods near Rosemont and on the weekends, when they are not running a sponsored 5K, they train at the Rose Bowl.
