Hundreds Run to Honor McCarthy's Memory
464 participants join forces to try and 'expand the miracle.'
During Meghan McCarthy's two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer, certain words and phrases floated through the halls of Tewksbury Memorial High School, the basketball court, and cyberspace. Among them, a certain phrase managed to overshadow any negativity felt around her condition at the time, and long thereafter ... Tewksbury Tough. On Sunday morning, a crowd of racers came together to honor Meghan by participating in the second Annual Meghan McCarthy 5K Road Race. Some walked, some ran, but of the many who wore numbers that morning, all of them had a single goal in mind -- reverence. "I wasn't running for time," said Richard Kirby. "I ran because it was a good cause. (Meghan) was in the grade ahead of me. I really didn't know her that …
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