The phrase "asked them to run" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to convey that someone requested another person or group to perform the action of running.
Example: "The coach asked them to run a few laps around the field to warm up before practice."
Alternatives: "requested them to run" or "told them to run".
Who asked them to run for President?
He identified brilliant women from all sorts of backgrounds and asked them to run.
In an experiment published last month, researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a treadmill.
More than 30 boys were waylaid on their way to music schools in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan in 1923 by a man who asked them to run an errand and offered to hold their violins while they did.
When Lee and his friend Kerry Kitchin launched the arts and culture magazine Novel, I asked them to run a journalism class for me. Lee commanded the room of aspiring writers with an attention to detail and maturity that belied his age – he was only 24 at the time.
"If you put an extra five kg on someone in a backpack and asked them to run about, they would really struggle.
One group used runners, asking them to run for 30 minutes or, in another study, 60 minutes.
If Mr Buffett admires 3G and its founders so much, perhaps he should consider asking them to run Berkshire itself.
And college students who are pressed for time, like Ben Blanton, a freshman who plays baseball at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, can text their parents when it suits them, asking them to run errands or just saying hello.
"We also envision in the future going to our pet food vendors and asking them to run a special program so that if, say, someone buys a bag of Hill's Science Diet dog food to put in the bin, then Hill's Science Diet would match that gift with another bag," Mr. Jolly said.
They are still growing when they are 3 years old — their tendons, ligaments and bones not fully developed — and yet that is when we ask them to run their hearts out in the Triple Crown, three demanding races compressed into five weeks.
