The phrase "accepted to run" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone has been approved or granted permission to participate in a running event or program.
Example: "After submitting my application, I was thrilled to learn that I was accepted to run in the marathon this year."
Alternatives: "approved to participate" or "granted entry to run".
It seems he has been accepted to run in the Berlin Golden League meeting in June, perhaps against Bolt.
Also on Wednesday, the Road Runners started announcing which recreational runners, out of the more than 90,000 applicants, had been accepted to run in the race this November.
Or rather, I got accepted to run the New York Marathon in honor of my father, a stroke survivor.
Ralph Reed was found to have accepted $4 million to run bogus antigambling campaigns.
There are regular scandals over "paid news" by which newspapers accept cash to run particular stories.
His comments on tax only came when he was encouraged to criticise Mo Farah for accepting £250,000 to run half of the London Marathon.
So he applied for and was accepted to a then-new program run by the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG), one of the handful of National Cancer Institute (NCI funded cooperative groups that design and run large clinical trials in cancer in the United States.
Sanders had already announced that he would be retiring from the college in the fall of 2001 when state Democratic leaders, who were having trouble finding a Senate candidate, accepted his offer to run for the Strom Thurmond seat.
(This was long before the current Bettman era, when it became accepted strategy simply to run the goaltender over in pursuit of the puck and club it in from well within the crease).
The university's barely broken-in president, E. Gordon Gee, stunned the community when he announced that after just two years in office, he had accepted an offer to run Vanderbilt University.
Chen agreed, and accepted an offer to run the music program, not only because he felt official pressure but because he relished the challenge of directing a retinue of fifty composers, from both classical and popular genres, to entertain a global audience.
