AORTA provides a structured organization to promote running as a sport and healthy lifestyle within our community. In furtherance of our purpose, AORTA hosts group runs, fun runs, training runs and programs on the road and/or track, hosts education lectures about topics of interest for runners, provides awards for club members, hosts social events for members, and all such other things that may be conducive to the engagement of running. AORTA also engages in community activities, to publicize by appropriate means, the benefits of running as a means of physical fitness to improve the health status of people in our community.