The Runners was an outdoor mural by architect James McQuiston located on the east side of the annex to the Barnes and Thornburg Building (originally the downtown Indianapolis Woolworth's location) at 7 E. Washington Street in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.

[1] The mural, which was created using acrylic paint, depicts children at play on a hill as seen through a series of white arched doorways or windows.

The mural occupied approximately 16,000 square feet (1,500 m2) of vertical wall space on the eastern side of what was then the Merchants National Bank Annex.

The project took about one month to complete and was dedicated on November 20, 1975 in a ceremony led by Mayor Richard G. Lugar and Otto N. Frenzel III, the chairman of the board of Merchants National Bank.

James W. McQuiston is an architect who was at the time of the mural's creation was working for the Indianapolis-based firm of Woollen Associates.