When Andy Palmer died at age 48 on Feb. 3 after suffering a heart attack after a training run, the Maine running community mourned the loss of one of its best ever.

Preliminary plans are in the works for a relay run in honor of Palmer. Run organizer Peter Millard sent out an e-mail Tuesday soliciting the help of the state’s running clubs in putting together the memorial effort, which is tentatively planned to begin on June 14.

Millard said the run would start in southern Maine on Friday evening and proceed north in relay fashion, with area running clubs taking responsibility for their “sphere of influence.” The run would end in Palmer’s hometown, Madawaska.

“I think it will be reasonably easy to put together, because we’re dividing it up,” Millard said.

Millard said the event will serve as a fund-raiser for the ZAP Fitness Center, which Palmer co-founded in Blowing Rock, N.C., with his wife, Zika.

“It’s more of a solidarity thing [for the running community], and a memorial for Andy,” Millard said. “And secondarily, [it will be a] fund-raiser for the non-profit organization that Andy formed that will hopefully produce some Olympic-caliber runners in the future.”