LAR's Contraband 5 Miler

🎉 Lake Area Runners presents the 2025 Contraband 5 Miler!

🏇 Thoroughbred Derby Dash!

Join us to celebrate the 49th Anniversary of the Lake Area Runners' Contraband 5 Miler!

• Theme: This year, we are celebrating the Kentucky Derby.
• Award: Award to be given to the runner with the Best Kentucky Derby hat!
• Event: Bring your hobby horse and gallop along Lakeshore drive!

📅 Race Date and Time

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 7:00am

Location:

• Venue: Lake Charles City Court parking lot
• Address: 118 West Mill Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601

🏞️ Route Description

The course is flat and fast. Route begins and ends at 118 West Mill Street near Lake Charles City Court. Route runs along the scenic Lakeshore Drive with beautiful views of the lake and its lake houses and large estates.

💵 Registration Fees

• $45: March 13, 2025 - April 15, 2025
• $50: April 16, 2025 - May 2, 2025
• $55: May 2 & 3, 2025 (online registration only)

👶 Age Based Pricing

Registrants 5 - 9 years old = $5 registration fee (shirt not included). Shirts may be purchased for $18.

Registrants 65 years and older = free registration (shirt not included). Shirts may be purchased for $18.

If you would like a shirt, purchase a shirt as an "Add-on" before checkout.

📦 Packet Pickup

Friday, May 2, 2025

• Where: Southern Specialty Products, 615 E. Prien Lake Road, Lake Charles, LA 70601
• When: 12:30PM-5:00PM

Saturday, May 3, 2025

• Where: parking lot of Lake Charles City Court, 118 West Mill Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601
• When: 6:00AM-6:30AM
• Note: Look for the blue Lake Area Runners tent in the parking lot.

*Important note = Registered participants need photo identification. Proxy pickup is allowed for immediate family members, husband/wife/sibling, with identification.

🕒 Race Day Schedule

• 6:00AM: Packet pickup and race day registration opens
• 6:30AM: Packet pickup and race day registration closes
• 6:45AM: Pre race meeting
• 7:00AM: Race begins
• 7:45AM: Post race food, beverages, music begins
• 9:00AM: Awards

🏆 Awards

Overall:

• Top 3 males and top 3 females: will be awarded a cash prize and a trophy:
• 1st Place: $100
• 2nd Place: $50
• 3rd Place: $25

Age group awards:

1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will be awarded in 10 year age groups for males and females as follows: 0-14, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+

👕 T-Shirts

Short sleeved performance shirts are provided to registered participants (except ages 5-9 years & 65+ years or older participant). Shirts are guaranteed to those participants who registered prior to Tuesday, April 15.

Shirts may be purchased without registration for $18. Click "Store" to purchase an additional shirt.

🔒 LAR's Registration Refund and Cancellation Policy

When you register for this event, you are making a non-refundable/non-transferable decision. There are absolutely NO refunds, deferrals, or bib exchanges. Lake Area Runners does not issue refunds if the event is cancelled due to circumstances out of our control. This policy stays in effect in natural disaster, pandemic, whether you experience illness/injury/unexpected travel/emergency or other. We work incredibly hard to put on our races and we personally understand the training and hard work runners undergo, so the last thing we want to do is cancel a race.

🚫 Cancellation

If we foresee dangerous conditions that warrant cancellations, we will update you via email and/or post onto @LakeAreaRunners and @LakeAreaRunnersForum sites on Facebook.

🅿️ Parking

No parking on West Mill Street in front of courthouse and Lakeshore Drive. Please be respectful to surrounding businesses and do not block entrances or exits.

🙌 Volunteers

• Race packet pickup: on Saturday, May 3, 2025, 5:30am-7:00am
• Race site setup & cleanup: on Saturday, May 3, 2025, 5:30am-7:00am & 8:30am-11:00am
• Hydration Stations and cheer spots: on Saturday, May 3, 2025, 6:30am-10:00am
• Post race food and beverage servers: on Saturday, May 3, 2025, 8:00am-11:00am
• Registration: Volunteers should register on run signup.com by Wednesday, April 30, 2025. If you have a group interested in volunteering, please email [email protected] attn: 5mile volunteer

🔗 More Information

For additional details and to register, visit the race page: Contraband 5 Miler Registration.