SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio is in the middle of its five-day World Heritage Festival, where you can embrace the beginning of the Alamo City's foundation.
It's their ninth year doing it, and they started today off with the Tour de Las Misiones.
Hundreds of visitors started their morning at the start line to take an adventure to appreciate the city's rich heritage and culture.
One man who says this is his 48th run this year, and he adds he'd do this one all over again.
"It's a great trail, great race, great event, great people, great volunteers, great everything. This is one of the best races I've ever done," said runner Scott Kabrich.
Kabrich has lived in San Antonio for decades.
He says he started running for his health.
"I had cancer when I was younger and, in 1983 when I started running, that's the same year I started running, and they caught my cancer really fast, so it didn't spread or anything. So I was really lucky," Kabrich said.
Step by step, Kabrich says running fuels his self-motivation to keep the cancer away.
He ran by two missions in his 5K run and says it was fun getting to learn something on the journey.
"The missions are really, really important to San Antonio and very historical," Kabrich said. "A lot of history there. So I think I wish more people had known about it. I think the people probably out of San Antonio don't know about it."
The San Antonio World Heritage Officer Director Colleen Swain says the awareness of our city's heritage and culture is why they have this event every year.
"There's a variety of activities for different sorts of interests," Swain said. "And that allows a wide variety of people to come and rediscover what's in their own backyard."
The World Heritage Festival ends Sunday with a mass and walk happening at Mission Espada at 8 a.m.
The National Park Service will be doing their final tour at 10 at Rancho de las Cabras.
