Run Up for Heroes
About this race
Run Up for Heroes is more than a race—it’s a powerful show of gratitude and solidarity. This community run brings together runners, walkers, families, and supporters of all ages and abilities to honor the men and women who have served our country. Every step taken helps raise critical funds and awareness for veterans who are navigating life’s toughest challenges.
Whether you’re racing for a personal best or walking in remembrance, your participation makes a meaningful impact.
Why We Run
We run to honor service.
We run to remember sacrifice.
We run to ensure no hero is left behind.
Many veterans face physical, emotional, and financial hardships long after their service ends. Run Up for Heroes gives our community a way to stand beside them—to show up, speak out, and support those who have given so much. When we run together, we carry their stories, their strength, and our shared responsibility forward.
Our Mission
Helping Hands for Heroes is dedicated to providing vital support to veterans by addressing immediate needs and fostering long‑term stability, healing, and hope. Through community‑driven programs and partnerships, we work to ensure our heroes have access to the resources, care, and support they deserve.
Run Up for Heroes fuels this mission—transforming compassion into action and gratitude into lasting change.
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Running
5K Run/Walk
10K Run
5K YOUTH REGISTRATION 13 and Under
Virtual 5K
Virtual 10K
RUCK Up for Heroes - 5K
Take the challenge to the next level with our Rucking Division, proudly presented in partnership with GORUCK. Participants in this division will complete the race course carrying a weighted ruck—honoring the grit, endurance, and resilience of those who serve. Open to all experience levels, rucking adds a meaningful physical and mental challenge while connecting participants to a tradition rooted in military training. All rucking participants who complete the course will earn an exclusive Helping Hands for Heroes ruck patch as a symbol of their commitment and support for our heroes.
RUCK Up for Heroes - 10K
Take the challenge to the next level with our Rucking Division, proudly presented in partnership with GORUCK. Participants in this division will complete the race course carrying a weighted ruck—honoring the grit, endurance, and resilience of those who serve. Open to all experience levels, rucking adds a meaningful physical and mental challenge while connecting participants to a tradition rooted in military training. All rucking participants who complete the course will earn an exclusive Helping Hands for Heroes ruck patch as a symbol of their commitment and support for our heroes.
Typical race-day weather
Based on 3 years of historical conditions on this event's race dates in Jacksonville.
Course
Route map and elevation profile
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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, 51 Jacksonville events
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