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The tradition started in 1973 when Ruggles Larson called his four daughters together to tell them about a new race called the Sound to Narrows.

If they’d train and run with him, Larson told them, he’d buy them new running shoes.

“He bribed us with cool shoes,” said Samantha Larson, who was 7 at the time and the youngest participant in the race. “... During the race I was just hoping my laces would come undone so I could stop and rest.”