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Indigenous Marathon Project participant Joseph Davies from Kununurra and project director Robert de Castella back in 2010. The IMP will be recruiting in Kununurra again this weekend.

The head coach of the Indigenous Marathon Project will visit Kununurra this weekend to identify the next crop of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island marathon runners.

Coach Mick Rees will travel to more than a dozen regional centres and remote indigenous communities in the coming weeks before selecting a team of 12 young runners to take on the New York Marathon in November.

Project director and former champion Australian runner Robert de Castella has spearheaded the project since its inception and encouraged all indigenous Australians aged 18 to 30 to try out.

"Running experience is not required," he said.

"IMP now has 43 graduates from the past five years who have successfully finished an international marathon, most having had absolutely no running experience."

De Castella said running was a vehicle to drive change, promote a healthy lifestyle and celebrate indigenous achievement and resilience.

Successful applicants will receive six months of professional training and support in readiness for the New York Marathon, as well as a Certificate IV qualification in Leisure and Health.

Back in 2010, Kununurra teenager Joseph Davies was among the first crop of runners selected to take part in the program.

Overcoming cold weather and a painful ankle, Davies went on to become one of the first indigenous Australians to run the New York Marathon.

He later featured in the documentary Running to America, which chronicled his journey, and that of three other runners, from their remote communities to the Big Apple.

The documentary showed the quartet undergoing intensive fitness regimes in their home towns and at the Australian Institute of Sport leading up to the event, which saw them run alongside 45,000 other athletes from around the world.

This year's try-out process involves female applicants running 3km and male runners tackling 5km, followed by an interview with Mr Rees. The Kununurra try-outs will be held at the Ord River Sports Club at 9.30am this Saturday.

Other locations to host try- outs include Broome, Karratha, Perth, Darwin and Alice Springs, with the final squad of six males and six females to be selected in April.

For more information, visit www.imp.org.au or search The Marathon Project on Facebook.