Arch City XC Festival
About this race
Please note: Registration will close on July 24, 2026, at 11:59 PM. There will be no race day registration.
Kick off the 2026 XC season in style with Columbus Running Company and Nike! Grab your friends and teammates and join us for the Arch City XC Festival on Saturday, July 25, 2026! This year's event will take place at Westerville North High School (950 County Line Rd, Westerville, OH 43081). The day will start with the Open 2-Mile (Adults and High School Grades 9-12) at 8:00am . This will be followed by the Middle School 2-mile at 8:30am, and last but certainly not least, the Elementary 2-mile at 9:00am. All races will run with combined genders and finish inside the stadium, where spectators can watch from the stands!
High schoolers and middle schoolers: Create a team of 3 (or join a team that your friends have already set up within the registration process) to be eligible for team scoring and have a chance at winning random prizes! Random apparel prizes will be given to 3 members of two different teams registered in the HS/MS races.
All registration proceeds from this race will be used to help the Westerville North cross country and track programs!
Please note: if you are signing up for one of the elementary/middle/high school races, you should sign up to compete with the grade level you are going into this fall!
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Running
Open 2-Mile (Adult and High School Grades 9-12)
Middle School 2-Mile (Grades 7-8)
Elementary School 2-Mile (Grades K-6)
Typical race-day weather
Based on 7 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Westerville, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:23 AM and sets at 8:52 PM local time (EDT) in Westerville on July 25, 2026 — 14h 29m of daylight.
Course
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2026 results — Arch City XC Festival
407 finishers across 3 distances · leading places in the Open 2-Mile (Adult and High School Grades 9-12)
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake Edwards | 9:26 | 4:43 /mi |
| 2 | Victor Orsinelli | 9:46 | 4:53 /mi |
| 3 | Zachariah Zimmerman | 9:52 | 4:56 /mi |
| 4 | Eric Kordus | 10:14 | 5:07 /mi |
| 5 | Andrew Giljahn | 10:16 | 5:08 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 33 Westerville events
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