Group Running Across Country Stops in Zanesville

From San Francisco to New York City, a California group is running across the country all to raise awareness of naturopathic medicine, and Monday evening, they made a pit stop in the Y-City.

Dr. Dennis Godby, a naturopathic doctor in Sacramento, California came up with the idea two years ago because he was so concerned about the health of America, specifically the high cases of cancer, obesity, and diabetes.

"I cannot just go to sleep at night knowing that this is occuring and I’m doing nothing about it. So for me, it’s an opportunity and an opportunity for all the people in America, all the naturopathic doctors and all the people across America who want to get involved to say "enough"," said Godby.

The group "The Run" is running approximately 30 miles a day and started July 17th in San Francisco and will be in New York City November 11th.

"Some days we don’t know if we want to continue but we know we have a good cause of spreading awareness for natural medicine so we just keep on going, pushing ourselves, and running 30 miles a day," said runner Isaiah Godby.

Their next stop will be Cambridge Tuesday and then onto Wheeling, West Virginia by the middle part of this week.