Red Sneakers Peoria 5k & Teal Pumpkin Festival
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Past event
Peoria Heights, Illinois
Event summary
Join us for the vibrant Red Sneakers Peoria 5K & Teal Pumpkin Festival on Saturday, October 11, 2025, in the beautiful Peoria Heights, Peoria. This exciting event is more than just a race; it’s a celebration of community, awareness, and support for those affected by food allergies. Participants can lace up their red sneakers and choose to run or walk the 5K course while engaging in family-friendly Teal Pumpkin activities designed to spread awareness about food allergies.
This annual event aims to build a larger allergy community and enhance education around food allergies, making it an essential gathering for families and advocates alike. Don’t miss out on the chance to contribute to a meaningful cause while enjoying a day filled with fun, prizes, and camaraderie! Whether you're running in person or joining virtually, your participation helps fund crucial research and advocacy efforts. Remember to wear your red sneakers, share your experiences on social media, and get ready for a fantastic day of community spirit and awareness. Together, we can make a difference!
This annual event aims to build a larger allergy community and enhance education around food allergies, making it an essential gathering for families and advocates alike. Don’t miss out on the chance to contribute to a meaningful cause while enjoying a day filled with fun, prizes, and camaraderie! Whether you're running in person or joining virtually, your participation helps fund crucial research and advocacy efforts. Remember to wear your red sneakers, share your experiences on social media, and get ready for a fantastic day of community spirit and awareness. Together, we can make a difference!
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Organiser's description
Red Sneakers For Food Allergy Awareness Walk/Run allows us to educate, spread awareness, and come together as an allergy community. The event includes Teal Pumpkin activities and education to help create allergy awareness and make the event family-friendly.
The walk/run and teal pumpkin festival is our largest annual event that will continue to sustain allergy awareness, education, research, advocacy and support in our community. Outcomes of this event will be a larger allergy community, robust sustainable support group, and bridged allergy education gaps at the school and healthcare, underserved and community.
Click here to see how we made a difference this year with the Teal Pumpkin Project!
Add your house or business to the teal pumpkin map in October before or during our event to qualify for raffle prizes.
Wear your red sneakers or anything red and post pictures of yourself to our social media and on Race Roster to qualify for special swag raffle prizes. Photos/posts can include training, our partners, other races, our race or the Peoria area. After the race post pictures of your red sneakers and teal pumpkins. You can also include photos/posts of Halloween activities at our event and at home. Each post qualifies for additional entries for swag prizes.
Follow us on social media for discounts and updates. Utilize the referral option to earn money. Employers can utilize the gift option to offer employees reduced or free registrations. Donate to participant helps registered participants achieve their fundraising goal.
So put on your red sneakers come get your teal pumpkins and help us raise money for food allergy awareness.
This event occurs rain or shine.
No dogs.
T-Shirt Included With Registration
Our shirts are critical to helping us spread food allergy awareness.
YOUTH DISCOUNT
Kids 12 and Under Register for $10 Less. Price Automatically Discounted at Checkout
Virtual Options
Participate from anywhere or add biking & swimming to your in-person run to make it a duathlon or triathlon.
Virtual participants and duathlon or triathlon participants please post your event results on race roster and our social media prior to race announcement to qualify for prizes
Register Early to Start Fundraising Today!
If you have any questions or concerns with registration or donation please contact Race Roster at 1(855) 969 5515 or email [email protected]
The walk/run and teal pumpkin festival is our largest annual event that will continue to sustain allergy awareness, education, research, advocacy and support in our community. Outcomes of this event will be a larger allergy community, robust sustainable support group, and bridged allergy education gaps at the school and healthcare, underserved and community.
Click here to see how we made a difference this year with the Teal Pumpkin Project!
Add your house or business to the teal pumpkin map in October before or during our event to qualify for raffle prizes.
Wear your red sneakers or anything red and post pictures of yourself to our social media and on Race Roster to qualify for special swag raffle prizes. Photos/posts can include training, our partners, other races, our race or the Peoria area. After the race post pictures of your red sneakers and teal pumpkins. You can also include photos/posts of Halloween activities at our event and at home. Each post qualifies for additional entries for swag prizes.
Follow us on social media for discounts and updates. Utilize the referral option to earn money. Employers can utilize the gift option to offer employees reduced or free registrations. Donate to participant helps registered participants achieve their fundraising goal.
So put on your red sneakers come get your teal pumpkins and help us raise money for food allergy awareness.
This event occurs rain or shine.
No dogs.
T-Shirt Included With Registration
Our shirts are critical to helping us spread food allergy awareness.
YOUTH DISCOUNT
Kids 12 and Under Register for $10 Less. Price Automatically Discounted at Checkout
Virtual Options
Participate from anywhere or add biking & swimming to your in-person run to make it a duathlon or triathlon.
Virtual participants and duathlon or triathlon participants please post your event results on race roster and our social media prior to race announcement to qualify for prizes
Register Early to Start Fundraising Today!
If you have any questions or concerns with registration or donation please contact Race Roster at 1(855) 969 5515 or email [email protected]
Location
1222 E Kingman Ave, Peoria Heights, 61616, IL, United States
Red Sneakers Peoria 5k & Teal Pumpkin Festival
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