--- description: Serena Williams was in the middle of the Serena Williams Live Ultimate Run in Miami when she got tired of running title: Serena Williams: Tennis Star Takes Cab to Finish Race image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [tennis](/tag/tennis/) ## tennis Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Serena Williams Took a Cab to the End of Her Own Charity Race  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Dec 15, 2015 1:22 PM CUT  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Dec 15, 2015 1:22 PM CUT Serena Williams was in the middle of the Serena Williams Live Ultimate Run in Miami when she got tired of running. The tennis star hopped in a taxi instead of finishing the race. “I didn’t run the whole way this year, but next year I will,” she said in a [video](https://www.facebook.com/SerenaWilliams/videos/10153858476166834/ "undefined") posted on Facebook. Her sister, Venus, did finish the race. The 5K race, the Serena Williams Live Ultimate Run, raises money for the Serena Williams Fund, which supports UNICEF and other charities. _Sports Illustrated_ recently announced that Serena Williams would be the magazine’s [2015 Sportsperson of the Year](http://www.si.com/sportsperson/2015/12/14/serena-williams-si-sportsperson-year "undefined"), ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4149028/serana-williams-charity-race/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4149028/serana-williams-charity-race/"},"headline":"Serena Williams Took a Cab to the End of Her Own Charity Race","datePublished":"2015-12-15T13:22:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:22:27.884Z","description":"'I didn’t run the whole way this year, but next year I will'","url":"https://time.com/4149028/serana-williams-charity-race/","keywords":["tennis"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/tennis/","name":"tennis"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4149028/serana-williams-charity-race/","name":"Serena Williams Took a Cab to the End of Her Own Charity Race"}}]}] ```