Life in Color 5K
- Date Sat 26th April 2025
- Time 10:00AM MDT
- Location Grand Junction, Colorado
- Price $38.10
- Races 2 races
- Distances 5km
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Event summary
Join us for the vibrant Life in Color 5K on Saturday, April 26, 2025, in beautiful Grand Junction, Mesa! This exciting event is not just about running—it's a spirited fundraiser for Grand Valley Oncology, dedicated to supporting the Survivorship program that promotes mind and body health for cancer patients and their caregivers. Participants can choose between a timed 5K or the fun, leisurely Fun Run/Walk along a scenic course that winds around the Community Hospital, featuring a mix of road, sidewalk, and gravel paths.
Get ready for a colorful day filled with activities for all ages and abilities! Embrace your creativity at our paint hug station where you can leave your mark with a hug, and express your artistic side at the rock painting station. We encourage everyone to don their most colorful costumes to celebrate the diversity and resilience of the cancer journey. Registration opens in February 2025, with early bird pricing at just $35 until April 24. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to support a great cause while enjoying a fun-filled day with family and friends!
Get ready for a colorful day filled with activities for all ages and abilities! Embrace your creativity at our paint hug station where you can leave your mark with a hug, and express your artistic side at the rock painting station. We encourage everyone to don their most colorful costumes to celebrate the diversity and resilience of the cancer journey. Registration opens in February 2025, with early bird pricing at just $35 until April 24. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to support a great cause while enjoying a fun-filled day with family and friends!
Organiser's Description
This is a 5K fund raiser for Grand Valley Oncology. This year we are raising money for our Survivorship program. Supportive Oncology & Survivorship Care provides programs for mind and body health. Free classes are available to all cancer patients and their caregivers. Current opportunities include yoga, tai chi, walking, nutrition and supportive groups.
The 5K course is composed of 2 and half loops around the perimeter of the Community Hospital and includes a mix of road, sidewalk and gravel path. We want to make this event fun for all ages and accessible to all ability groups. Participants have the option to signup for the timed 5K or the Fun Run/Walk . Both options are the same course. Timed 5K participants receive a timing chip on their bib and will be lined up in the first wave of the race. Fun Run participants will not receive a bib and can take the course at their own pace and have fun along the way with activities that we have planned.
After the timed 5K or during the Fun Run/Walk we will have a paint hug station where participants can paint their hands and arms and give another participant a hug so that it leaves a hug mark on the white race shirts. We will also have a rock painting station. We chose the theme of Life in Color because cancer comes in all different "colors" and we want to fund raise and support cancer patients in living their fullest lives. Colorful costumes encouraged!
REGISTRATION: OPENS February 2025 $35 Regular (before 4/24), $45 (Race Day)
**We stop collecting t-shirt sizes on April 7th. Register before 4/7 to guarantee getting a t-shirt in your preferred size.
EVENT SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY 4/25:
* 4:30-6:30pm Friday 4/25 Packet Pickup (First floor waiting room at Grand Valley Oncology)
SATURDAY 4/26 (8AM - 1PM):
* 8:30-9:45am Saturday 4/26 Packet Pickup & light Breakfast provided (coffee, fruit & pastries)
* 10am Timed 5K Start (time cut off for all timed participants is 60 mins)
* 10:05am Fun Run/Walk Start
* 10-12:30pm Paint stations open
* 11am Food Trucks on site
AWARDS (11AM): 5k 1st Overall male/female and Most Colorful Award
The 5K course is composed of 2 and half loops around the perimeter of the Community Hospital and includes a mix of road, sidewalk and gravel path. We want to make this event fun for all ages and accessible to all ability groups. Participants have the option to signup for the timed 5K or the Fun Run/Walk . Both options are the same course. Timed 5K participants receive a timing chip on their bib and will be lined up in the first wave of the race. Fun Run participants will not receive a bib and can take the course at their own pace and have fun along the way with activities that we have planned.
After the timed 5K or during the Fun Run/Walk we will have a paint hug station where participants can paint their hands and arms and give another participant a hug so that it leaves a hug mark on the white race shirts. We will also have a rock painting station. We chose the theme of Life in Color because cancer comes in all different "colors" and we want to fund raise and support cancer patients in living their fullest lives. Colorful costumes encouraged!
REGISTRATION: OPENS February 2025 $35 Regular (before 4/24), $45 (Race Day)
**We stop collecting t-shirt sizes on April 7th. Register before 4/7 to guarantee getting a t-shirt in your preferred size.
EVENT SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY 4/25:
* 4:30-6:30pm Friday 4/25 Packet Pickup (First floor waiting room at Grand Valley Oncology)
SATURDAY 4/26 (8AM - 1PM):
* 8:30-9:45am Saturday 4/26 Packet Pickup & light Breakfast provided (coffee, fruit & pastries)
* 10am Timed 5K Start (time cut off for all timed participants is 60 mins)
* 10:05am Fun Run/Walk Start
* 10-12:30pm Paint stations open
* 11am Food Trucks on site
AWARDS (11AM): 5k 1st Overall male/female and Most Colorful Award
Races
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5K Run (Timed)
Incl. $3.10 Fee & T-Shirt
Sat 26th April 2025 (10:00AM MDT)
$38.10
This will be a timed 5K. Race participants will receive a bib with a timing chip. Race participants will complete 2 and a half loops around the hospital. -
Fun Run/Walk (Untimed)
Incl. $3.10 Fee & T-Shirt
Sat 26th April 2025 (10:05AM MDT)
$38.10
This event is untimed and participants will not receive a bib. Participants can complete all or some of the 5K course.
Life in Color 5K
