Will to Run Challenge
About this race
Please join A Running Passion in our sixth annual Will to Run Challenge! This is a virtual race so you can run, walk, or skip your way to the finish of your own personal 5k, 10k, or both within the event week!
Prices and swag packs are as follows:
-5K: $30: t-shirt/ event bib
-10K: $40: t-shirt/bag/sticker/ event bib
-15k Combined Challenge (must submit separate 5k and 10k times): $50-t-shirt/bag/sticker/event bib/ A Running Passion socks)
-Kid's Challenge: FREE- stickers, event bib, coloring pages, event check list
Friday, September 12-
Will to Run Challenge begins ---
Virtual welcome on social media
Packet pick-up
Round Turn Distillery
5-6:30pm
Sunday, September 14-
Packet Pick-up
Waterhouse Field (Cross Country Shoe Jamboree)
10am-12pm
Banded Brewing
13-W, 32 Main St.
Biddeford, ME 04005
Tuesday, September 16-
5:30-6:00pm- Local packet pick-up
6:00pm- A Running Passion Pub Run 5K, 10K loop available
$1 from each beer purchased from the group goes to A Running Passion
Birthday cookies in honor of Will to be provided at 7:30pm
Friday, September 19-
Final day to send in completion times and photos. Times must be submitted by 11:59pm.
Saturday, September 20-
Virtual closing ceremony to air on our social media outlets.
***If you live in Biddeford, Dayton, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Arundel, Saco, Old Orchard Beach, or Wells, your packet will be available for packet pick-up at one of the Biddeford locations. We do not mail local packets out. We will have pick-up available in Portland for those interested at Marathon Sports.
***Packets for our friends joining us from further away should receive their packets the week of the event. Please sign-up early to guarantee your packet and swag arrive on time!
Times can be submitted to cfrentzen@gmail.com anytime from
9/12/2022-9/19/2022
All proceeds from this event will go to A Running Passion's scholarship and community outreach initiatives.
https://arunningpassion.org/
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Running
Will to Run Challenge Combined 15K
Will to Run Challenge 5K
Will to Run Challenge 10K
Will to Run Kid's Challenge
Typical race-day weather
Based on 9 years of historical conditions on this event's race dates in Biddeford.
Course
Route map and elevation profile
No course map published yet.
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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, 3 Biddeford events
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