Cake by the Lake 5K Run and Walks
About this race
The 6th Annual Cake by the Lake 5K Run, the 5K Powerwalk, and the One Mile Cakewalk will take place on Saturday, April 3, 2027 on the Withlacoochee State Trail!
All three events start at Liberty Park in Inverness.
5K Runners will take off as the sun rises over the lake, with 5 K Powerwalkers starting just three minutes behind them.
Another 3 minutes later, the 1-mile 'Cakewalkers" will enter the fray.
Both of the 5K Race and Powerwalk route and the 1 mile route travel along the beautiful shores of the Tsala Apopka chain of lakes.
As all participants return to Liberty Park, they’ll get their finisher’s medals, which come with an elegant neck ribbon unique to 2027 and enjoy great music, festivities, and the signature cake served by the classically beautiful Lake Henderson!
Unique cake plate age-level awards will be presented to the winners of each five-year age incremen bracketts, as will 2nd and 3rd place metals for both the 5K Run and Powerwalk.
These events DO NOT HAVE T-shirts, but a specially designed WST Cake By The Lake edition T-shirt will be available for purchase online before the race.
The race swag is sure to please! Free photos will be available online.
This is a wonderfully flat, straight, and well maintained course that has produced many new PR's over the years!
Once again, we're offering $10 registration for kids up to 12 years old, and $15 registration for teens 13-17.
Those 18 and older are considered adults. 17 and under will receive different swag than adults, but it will still be "top shelf swag" including a heavy 3" full-color medal. Of course, youth athlete participants are eligible to win our special cake plate age group awards, as well as overall race awards.
See updates and sneak peeks on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Friends-of-the-Withlacoochee-State-Trail-Inc-1485120831710155 or visit https://FOTWST.org.
Packet pickup: 6:30 a.m. Race Day
Race Starts at 7:30 a.m. SHARP!
Pick your distance
Running
Cake by the Lake 5K Run
Walking
Cake by the Lake - 5K Power Walk (Monitors, but no judges or red cards)
You may walk any way that you wish, including fitness walking, power walking, and racewalking, as long as you WALK. You may not run at all if you enter the 5K Walk, or you will risk disqualification for repeated or persistent running. If you wish to employ the "run and walk" method, please enter the 5K Run. We will have locally certified monitors on the course to assist all walking entrants in complying with USATF and USAPWA definitions of walking. That is "heel to toe walking with one foot always in contact with the ground". The Monitors are NOT certified judges in either NSG discipline. They may show a walker a Yellow Paddle as a courtesy to assist in a walker's personal development, but the cardings will not be recorded and there will be NO RED PADLES or RED CARDS in use. Any disqualification from receiving race awards will be the decision of the Lead Monitor or Judge if one is available.
One Mile Cakewalk - No "Chip timing"
Small town (lakeside) morning stroll... "DONE RIGHT!" in Inverness, FL.
Typical race-day weather
Based on 5 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Inverness, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 7:16 AM and sets at 7:48 PM local time (EDT) in Inverness on April 3, 2027 — 12h 31m of daylight.
Course
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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, 13 Inverness events
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