Arianne Brown KSL

Sure, running won’t bring the Great Salt Lake back — aside from maybe sweating beads of salt that may be absorbed by the atmosphere.

However, staying silent about things that you are passionate about won’t either — which is why locals are running 260 miles around “Where the Water Was.”

The event started Tuesday at the State Capitol and was spearheaded by professional ultra-runner Dakota Jones. He is also a co-founder of Footprints, a nonprofit that helps runners turn their platforms into community climate action. He said his goal is to raise funds to support organizations working to save the Great Salt Lake.

Jones initially set out to do the run solo, but due to injury, turned it into a group/relay event.

“This run was never about one person doing hard things; it’s about getting a lot of people who live here to work together for a hard thing,” he said. “That’s what we’re doing for the run, and that’s what we have to do to save the lake.”

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