Saratoga City Councilwoman Susie Nagpal wasn’t a runner. But more than 300 of her friends and relatives showed up under pleasant skies Sunday for “Stride for Susie,” a walk and run in her memory that raised money for lung cancer research.

Nagpal was 46 when she died from the disease in May.

“I had no idea it would be this big,” said her niece, Tarini Ullal, a UC Berkeley senior who came up with the idea of a fundraising run to remember her aunt.

Nagpal, who didn’t smoke, was the first Indo-American elected to the council of this bucolic town of about 30,000. After the runners and walkers finished their 5- or 10-kilometer routes, they gathered at Saratoga’s town center to remember her.

Her sister, Jayshree Ullal, said Nagpal strived to help Saratoga grow without losing its appeal.