Race For a Ride
About this race
🏃♀️ Race 4 A Ride: 5K Benefitting Archer Smith!
Join us for a fun-filled family 5K to help provide a wheelchair-accessible van for Archer and his family! Come walk, run, or roll with us as our community comes together to celebrate an incredible kid whose strength, smile, and spirit inspire everyone around him. Your participation and support will help give his family the gift of freedom, safety, and accessibility through a new wheelchair van.
📅 Date: Sunday August 9th, 2026
📍 Location: Lincoln Park (1730 N. Stockton Dr. Chicago, IL 60614) - Grove 2 - Just North of Benjamin Franklin Monument
⏰ Time: Check-in 8:00 AM | Race 9:00 AM
🎟️ Registration: Sign up on runsignup.com!
💙 How You Can Help:
- Register to walk, run, or cheer!
- Bring your family, strollers, pets, and wheelchairs welcome!
- If you DO NOT plan to participate, donations are being accepted here. Participants, please share the link to this site to collect further donations.
Together, we can help Archer and his family keep moving forward—one stride at a time.
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