5K Breast Cancer Awareness Run & 2M Health Walk

🎀 3rd Annual 5K Breast Cancer Awareness Run &: Health Walk

Presented by Atrium Health Floyd

🗓️ Date & Time

Saturday, September 27, 2025 (NIGHT RACE!!)

📍 Location

LOCATION: Ridge Ferry Park

• Start and Finish Location: Ridge Ferry Park on gravel trail in front of the Coca-Cola stage.

📏 Course Certification

The 5K course is a USATF-certified course (#GA21022WC), thus allowing your time to serve as a Peachtree Road Race qualifying time!

📋 Event Details & Schedule

• 4:00 PM: Race Day Registration begins
• 5:00 PM: Race Day Registration ends...(ALSO, 'Costume Contest' report to Judges)
• 5:15 PM: 5K Start
• 5:30 PM: Health Walk Start
• 6:30 PM: Awards Ceremony

👗 Costume Contest

We will have a pre-race costume contest and encourage all runners, walkers, spectators, and more to help celebrate the event by wearing pink or dressing up. Judging for the contest will begin around 5:00 p.m.

📝 Registration

• Cost: Registration for the 5K is $26 and the walk is $21. A portion of race funds goes to help support mammography scholarships.
• Deadline: Registration closes on Monday, Sept. 22 at midnight.
• Late Registration: In-person only is $36 for the 5K and $26 for the walk.
• Race Day Registration: $40 for the 5K and $30 for the walk.

👥 Group Registration

We offer a discount for groups of 20 or more, who register for the walk or run. Group Registration closes on Friday, October 4. There is no late registration for groups. Groups must come in to the office at 1 Shorter Ave to register with the group discount. Or email Lindsey.Jones@:floydcountyga.org.

• Cost: Group registration cost is $16 for the walk and $21 for the run.
• Packet Delivery: Groups with 20 or more registered walkers or runners can have their packets and race shirts delivered to their business.
• Distribution: It is the group’s responsibility to distribute the packets once they have been dropped off.

📦 Packet Pickup

Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation will host packet pick-up on Thursday, Sept. 25, and Friday, Sept. 26 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at our office at 1 Shorter Avenue. There will also be race-day packet pick-up starting at 4:00 p.m. and ending at 5:00 p.m.

🚶‍♂️ Walk Details

The walk consists of portions of a gravel path and paved trail surface within Ridge Ferry Park. The distance is approximately 1.7 miles and will not be timed. Dogs on a leash are allowed during the walk, but walkers must clean up after their pets.

🏃‍♀️ Run Details

The run consists of portions of gravel paths as well as paved trails within Ridge Ferry Park. The course is flat and fast with only one true hill. Due to trail size, we ask anyone wanting to use a baby jogger to start at the back of the running pack. While we love our four-legged friends, dogs are not allowed to participate in the 5K race.

🍉 Post Race

There will be fruit, Powerade, and water on the concrete pad in front of the Coca-Cola Stage at Ridge Ferry Park as well as music and lots of fun.

💧 Water

There will be one water station on the course.

🏆 Awards

The top three (3) finishers in their age groups as well as the first overall male &: female, first overall male &: female master’s runners, and first overall male &: female grandmasters runners receive awards. The awards ceremony will start at approximately 6:30pm.

🕒 Professional Chip Timing

The race will be timed by Wire2Wire Running, LLC, using RFID technology and MyLaps equipment - the same timing system used in the Peachtree RR, the Boston Marathon, and the Tour de France.

☔ Weather or Other Issues

All attempts will be made for the race and walk to run as scheduled. This is a rain-or-shine event. If the race has to be postponed for a weather event or other reason we will schedule a make-up day and time and communicate this information through media channels, our social media accounts, our website and via the email address registrants entered on their forms.

For more information, visit our race page at Race Information.