In Our Backyard Speak Up Pink Duck 5K- Run/Walk for their freedom

Speak Up Pink Duck 5K — Run/Walk for their Freedom

Registration & Pricing
$30 entry includes your official race t-shirt!

Children 0–15 are FREE, and can collect rubber ducks!  (No race t-shirt or finisher medal included).

Race Day: Sunday, June 7th. Two ways to race.

1-Virtually June 7th-14th- One week to race your way

OR: 

 2-Central Oregon June 7th 11:00AM at Athletic Club of Bend

Commemorative Pink Duck Finisher Medal available as a $20 add-on at checkout.*Register by May 17 to guarantee your preferred t-shirt size will be available by race day. Registrants from May 18 through June 7 will still receive an official race t-shirt shipped after June 14th. 

Children 0–15 are FREE, and can collect rubber ducks!  (No race t-shirt or finisher medal included).

Our Story

What started as a virtual race in 2021 with RunTuesday's support has grown into something bigger every year. This is our third annual Speak Up Pink Duck 5K, bringing the race to the streets of Bend, Oregon, while keeping our virtual community running strong worldwide. Whether you're local or logging miles from across the country, there's a place for you in this race.

 

Details:

 In-Person — Bend, Oregon Sunday, June 7 | 11:00 AM Start & finish at the Athletic Club of Bend 61615 Athletic Club Drive, Bend, OR 97702

Join your Central Oregon community on the course! This is a welcoming, all-paces 5K for everyone — competitive runners, casual joggers, students, families with strollers, kids, and first-timers. If you can move, you belong here.

BEND, OREGON-EVENT TIMELINE: 
10:00 am – Race-day Registration opens, and Packet Pick-up opens 
11:00 am—The 5K Fun Run/Walk begins and ends at the Athletic Club of Bend. 

 

Virtual 5K— Race Anywhere in the World June 7th – June 14th | Your way, your place, your pace

Our virtual community is the heart of this race, and it keeps growing! Since 2021, runners from across the country have joined us virtually, and we want to keep that momentum going. Complete your 5K anytime/anyway during the virtual window on your favorite trail, treadmill, track, swim, boogie, or neighborhood route. Students, athletes, running clubs, and stroller crews are all welcome. Run solo or rally your people wherever you are.

 

Find us at www.inourbackyard.org

Team Competitions 🏆

Got a crew? Compete for: 🏆 Largest Team Prize 🎉 Most Spirited Team Award ⚡ Fastest Team Award

Coaches, team captains, and running clubs — this is your moment. Build your squad and race for a cause that matters.

 

 

The Pink Duck Challenge 🦆

All ages welcome! Take a duck → Learn a tip → Tell 3 people

In-person participants receive a physical pink rubber duck keepsake plus a trafficking prevention tip to share with three people.

Virtual participants receive their trafficking prevention tip digitally - same mission, same impact, wherever you run. Help us spread awareness one conversation at a time, no matter where your finish line is.

 

 

Wear Your Pink! 💗

Think pink. Think feathers. Think BIG. The best-dressed participant wins the Most Spirited Award - and yes, virtual racers are absolutely eligible! Tag @inourbackyard with your race photo to show off your outfit and raise awareness for human trafficking prevention.

 

Who Should Run This Race?

This race is for everyone: 👟 Competitive runners chasing a finish time 🎓 Students running for a cause 👨‍👩‍👧 Families with kids and strollers 🏅 Athletes looking for a meaningful race 🌍 Virtual runners logging miles from anywhere 🦆 Anyone who believes awareness is how prevention begins

 

 

Why We Run

Run for the one. Awareness is how prevention begins.

This is a charity run benefiting In Our Backyard, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting youth and stopping human trafficking in Central Oregon and beyond.

 

Sponsored by: Athletic Club of Bend · Advanced Portable Systems · Brightways Counseling Group · Blissful Heart

Together, we speak up. Together, we protect their freedom.

 

RACE AMENITIES INCLUDE: 
-Pink Duckie keepsake to raise awareness with friends - Race Bib- Water and post-race snacks  

 

EMAIL US IF YOU HAVE A TEAM OF TEN+! PERKS INCLUDE MEDALS & TSHIRTS FOR YOUR TEAM FOR REGISTRATON PRICE AND PINK RUBBER DUCKIES! EMAIL info@inourbackyard.org

 

Why join this Fun Duck 5k?

Proceeds support IN OUR BACKYARD's mission to create a world where everyone can live in Freedom. Help protect youth and victims of trafficking by creating a pathway to Freedom! Your race protects more than 100 human trafficking victims during our Super Bowl intel operation in partnership with law enforcement and over 10,000 local youth through IOB's prevention program- Teens Against Trafficking. 

More info:

To learn more about our seven prevention programs, go to www.inourbackyard.org

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IN OUR BACKYARD, established in 2009, is now a survivor-led(2020) national
organization with more than a decade of dedication to the fight against sex and labor trafficking. IOB
links arms in the fight against human trafficking by empowering communities to prevent this atrocity
and creating access to Freedom for victims of human trafficking (HT). IOB Founder Nita Belles was
driven to take action to stop the exploitation of children, women, and men. Her book, In Our Backyard:
Human Trafficking in America and What You Can Do to Stop It has been acclaimed as the primer on
human trafficking in America. In 2020, Cheryl Csiky, a child-trafficking survivor, joined IOB as Executive
Director to further lead the mission and growing needs.