Race For a Ride!
About this race
🏃♀️ Our 2nd Annual CHARITY 5k - Race For A Ride
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: 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 here on runsignup.com!
🎥 Last Years Race For A Ride Video
💙 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's family keep moving forward—one stride at a time.
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Typical race-day weather
Based on 13 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Chicago, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 5:52 AM and sets at 7:59 PM local time (CDT) in Chicago on August 9, 2026 — 14h 06m of daylight.
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2026 results — Race For a Ride!
68 finishers across 2 distances · leading places in the 5k Run
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zach Thompson | 15:40 | 5:03 /mi |
| 2 | Quinton Childs | 15:52 | 5:06 /mi |
| 3 | C. Sinish | 21:52 | 7:02 /mi |
| 4 | Jorge Lopez | 22:53 | 7:22 /mi |
| 5 | Phillip Curtis | 25:07 | 8:05 /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, 152 Chicago events
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