Events Search and Views Navigation
April 2021
Run 4 Their Lives VIRTUAL 24 Mile Challenge
Run 4 Their Lives is a Freedom 4/24 event that raises awareness and funds to bring sexually exploited women and children into freedom. NEW for 2021...Join our 24 Mile challenge. Run 4 Their Lives Races are Freedom 4/24 events that aim to raise awareness of sexual exploitation and human trafficking across the country. Become a fundraiser! Click the Fundraiser tab to set up a personalized R4TL web page - raise $50 and you run free! Ask your friends and family…
Find out more »Virtual – UVA Donor Dash 4 Mile Run/Walk & Transplant Trek 1 Mile Fun Run
The Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center at the University of Virginia is organizing their inaugural “Donor Dash” Friday April 23-Monday April 26, 2021. While future Donor Dashes are planned to be in-person events, this year we are planning a virtual event in recognition of the uncertainty of the current public health crisis and the impact it could have on everyone involved, especially our organ transplant recipient family. Our Virtual 4 mile walk/run and a 1 mile “Transplant Trek” fun walk…
Find out more »Run 4 Their Lives Lynchburg
Run 4 Their Lives is a Freedom 4/24 event that raises awareness and funds to bring sexually exploited women and children into freedom. A 5k and Youth 1K are featured events! ADVOCATE: Become a fundraiser! Share information about human trafficking with your friends and family and ask them to support your efforts to run for freedom and fight injustice! Click the Fundraiser tab to set up a personalized R4TL web page - raise $50 and you run free!
Find out more »May 2021
Virtual Armed Forces Day 5k Run/Walk
Show your support for our Armed Forces and the National D-Day Memorial by participating in a patriotic themed Virtual 5K Run/Walk. Our annual event is typically held Armed Forces Day weekend on the campus of the National D-Day Memorial. Due to continued COVID restrictions and concern for the health of our staff, volunteers, and visitors this year's event will be virtual. By participating virtually, you can choose your own 5K course and complete the distance when it is convenient for…
Find out more »Memorial Day 10K & 2 Mile Walk
For the past 5 years, Lynchburg Road Runners Club and Type 1 Diabetes Experience (T1DE) have hosted this race to provide support for local families living with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. It has become a great community and family event. The proceeds from this race have helped with education on diabetes management, nutrition education and cooking demos, community support groups and even camps for children with Type 1 Diabetes. The Memorial Day 10K is the 2nd race in…
Find out more »June 2021
National Trails Day 5k Run & Walk
Celebrate National Trails Day by participating in a 5K race on High Bridge Trail State Park sponsored by Centra Southside Community Hospital. The park is a rail to trail conversion and is a wide, level surface with virtually no grade. Course travels over the world famous High Bridge. Event is limited to 200 participants.
Find out more »July 2021
19th Annual Percival’s Island Firecracker 5-Miler
Start your 4th of July celebration with Percival's Island Firecracker 5 Miler! Lynchburg is known as the "Hill City"....but this course is flat, flat, flat. The start finish is located at the Blackwater Creek Natural Area Percival's Island in downtown Lynchburg and the course follows the Blackwater Creek Bikeway...a paved rails to trails path along the James River. A bit longer than a 5k but without the effort of a 10k, 5 miles is considered by many the perfect distance.
Find out more »September 2021
47th Virginia 10 Miler
The historic Genworth Virginia 10 Miler will celebrates its 47th year after a cancelled 2020 event due to COVID. Stay tuned for more details late Spring 2021. Registration will open no earlier than June 1st.
Find out more »
