2025 Wesley UMC Bun Run 5K and One Mile Fun Walk
- Date Sat 3rd May 2025
- Time 8:30AM CDT
- Location El Reno, Oklahoma
- Price $33.63 - $38.96
- Races 2 races
- Distances 5km, 1 Mile
Last chance to enter
Race day is fast approaching
Event summary
Get ready for a fantastic day of fun and fitness at the 12th annual Wesley UMC Bun Run, taking place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, in beautiful El Reno, Oklahoma! This exciting event features both a 5K race and a One Mile Fun Walk, perfect for runners and walkers of all ages. The 5K course is USATF sanctioned, winding through a charming historic neighborhood and starting at Wesley United Methodist Church at 9:00 AM. Participants can also join the One Mile Fun Run at 8:30 AM.
Not only will you enjoy a great day of exercise, but your participation helps support vital local and international mission work, including building schools and providing community aid in Northern Mexico. Plus, the Bun Run is perfectly timed with the El Reno Burger Day Festival, just a block away, offering a full day of entertainment, games, and delicious food, including the world’s largest fried onion hamburger! With awards for top finishers, finisher medals for all 5K participants, and the chance to win the Fancy Pants Award for the best-decorated buns, this event promises to be a blast! Don’t miss out on this wonderful combination of community spirit and fun—mark
Not only will you enjoy a great day of exercise, but your participation helps support vital local and international mission work, including building schools and providing community aid in Northern Mexico. Plus, the Bun Run is perfectly timed with the El Reno Burger Day Festival, just a block away, offering a full day of entertainment, games, and delicious food, including the world’s largest fried onion hamburger! With awards for top finishers, finisher medals for all 5K participants, and the chance to win the Fancy Pants Award for the best-decorated buns, this event promises to be a blast! Don’t miss out on this wonderful combination of community spirit and fun—mark
Organiser's Description
BENEFITS
By participating in the 12th annual Bun Run, you will help support Wesley UMC's foreign and local mission work. Our foreign teams work with and support the Hands Together ministry that builds schools, medical clinics, homes, and community centers for the impoverished people of Northern Mexico. Our local missions are ALLOT which is a store that El Reno teachers can get classroom supplies at no cost; blessing boxes-15 food pantry boxes located throughout El Reno to help the hungry; Dolly Imagination Library Affiliate; we operate a local bookmobile that provides free books to kids at the schools and city events; and have local mission teams to help people in the community with yard cleanup and house repairs.
FUN
This run is in conjunction with the El Reno Burger Day Festival!! This festival is held downtown El Reno just one block west of the Bun Run. Enjoy multiple stages of entertainment/music, games, rides, antique car show, merchants, and food. Witness the cooking of the world's largest fried onion hamburger, weighing in at over 750#'s.
DATE & START TIME
Saturday May 3, 2025
8:30am One Mile Fun Run
9:00am 5K
COURSE - Certified and starts at the Wesley UMC and winds through an El Reno historic neighborhood!
USATF SANCTIONED EVENT.
Wesley United Methodist Church
101 S. Barker
El Reno, OK 73036
AWARDS
Standard USATF Age Group Awards
Overall Male and Female Award
Finisher Medal for all 5K participants
Free event shirt to all participants
Post-event refreshment including HOMEMADE COOKIES!!! Made by our great bakers in the Wesley United Methodist Women's Group.
FANCY PANTS AWARD
Come run with decorated buns AND WIN a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd PLACE PRIZE!!! Glitter, glue, tassel, or tutu. Decorate the back of your running shorts in our 5K or fun run and if you have the best decorated buns, you can win a Fancy Pants prize! (All buns must be covered with clothing--no exposed buns please!)
PACKET PICKUP AND ON-SITE REGISTRATION
Friday, May 2nd from 6PM - 7PM
Wesley UMC located 101 S. Barker El Reno, OK 73036
You may also register and pick up your race packet the morning of the race starting at 7:30am. Registration fee increase $5 on race day.
By participating in the 12th annual Bun Run, you will help support Wesley UMC's foreign and local mission work. Our foreign teams work with and support the Hands Together ministry that builds schools, medical clinics, homes, and community centers for the impoverished people of Northern Mexico. Our local missions are ALLOT which is a store that El Reno teachers can get classroom supplies at no cost; blessing boxes-15 food pantry boxes located throughout El Reno to help the hungry; Dolly Imagination Library Affiliate; we operate a local bookmobile that provides free books to kids at the schools and city events; and have local mission teams to help people in the community with yard cleanup and house repairs.
FUN
This run is in conjunction with the El Reno Burger Day Festival!! This festival is held downtown El Reno just one block west of the Bun Run. Enjoy multiple stages of entertainment/music, games, rides, antique car show, merchants, and food. Witness the cooking of the world's largest fried onion hamburger, weighing in at over 750#'s.
DATE & START TIME
Saturday May 3, 2025
8:30am One Mile Fun Run
9:00am 5K
COURSE - Certified and starts at the Wesley UMC and winds through an El Reno historic neighborhood!
USATF SANCTIONED EVENT.
Wesley United Methodist Church
101 S. Barker
El Reno, OK 73036
AWARDS
Standard USATF Age Group Awards
Overall Male and Female Award
Finisher Medal for all 5K participants
Free event shirt to all participants
Post-event refreshment including HOMEMADE COOKIES!!! Made by our great bakers in the Wesley United Methodist Women's Group.
FANCY PANTS AWARD
Come run with decorated buns AND WIN a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd PLACE PRIZE!!! Glitter, glue, tassel, or tutu. Decorate the back of your running shorts in our 5K or fun run and if you have the best decorated buns, you can win a Fancy Pants prize! (All buns must be covered with clothing--no exposed buns please!)
PACKET PICKUP AND ON-SITE REGISTRATION
Friday, May 2nd from 6PM - 7PM
Wesley UMC located 101 S. Barker El Reno, OK 73036
You may also register and pick up your race packet the morning of the race starting at 7:30am. Registration fee increase $5 on race day.
2025 Wesley UMC Bun Run 5K and One Mile Fun Walk
