Sean Astin Among Celebrities to Run in 2015 Boston Marathon

Photo via #Run3rd blog

People from all over the world will be running in the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 20 to pay respects to the victims, families and survivors of the 2013 Boylston Street tragedy.

With the second anniversary of the attack coming up on April 15, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh recently heralded that date as One Boston Day.

Patch will provide you with some relief from the in-session Boston Marathon bombings trial by sharing a list of celeb runners participating in this year’s event.

Read on to see the list of who we got so far.

• First is Sean Astin of “Lord of the Rings” and “The Goonies” fame. The actor, who played the title role in 1993’s “Rudy,” is running on behalf on Martin Richard, the 8-year-old who perished in the 2013 tragedy.

From a post Astin wrote on his blog #Run3rd:

I never could have imagined that I’d get to run Boston. In order to qualify, I’d have to shave over an hour off of my best marathon time. Eeeek! As fate would have it, Dave McGillivray, Boston Marathon Race Director, invited me to join Team MR8 and run on behalf of young Martin Richard and the amazing foundation that his parents established in his honor.

Astin started the #Run3rd campaign on Twitter in January 2012 to “share runners’ dedications made on behalf of people’s loved ones, causes and ideas.”

Click here to support Sean Astin and the Martin W. Richard Charitable Foundation.

• Next celebrity runner is actress and Medfield, Mass. native Uzo Aduba. The “Orange Is the New Black” star said to People that running the marathon ”feels like the right thing to do.” Aduba raised more than her $4,000 goal for the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge. She raised money specifically for the institute’s Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research, which studies potential molecular and genetic causes of cancer.
  

Aduba took to Instagram to show off her jersey:

• Last is local name Tina Haupert. The South Shore blogger and author of “Carrots ‘N’ Cake: Healthy Living One Carrot and Cupcake at a Time” will be running with Team Stonyfield. The yogurt company, which is the official yogurt sponsor of the Boston Marathon, chose the writer and seven other “mom runners” for their 2015 roster, Haupert wrote on her blog Carrots ‘N’ Cake.

Do you know of any other stars who are running in the Boston Marathon? Leave a comment with information below.