5K Walk/ Run for Foster Kids

Race Day: Saturday, May 17, 2025

Official registration for the 5k race and/ or the Family Fun Walk/ Run Mile begins Saturday, February 1, 2025.

Use the button or QR code below to connect through a link to Eastside Racing for registration. You may also find our race in www.runmichigan.com.

PACKET PICK-UP will be the morning of the event beginning at 8:45 am. Parking and event entrance is on the Sterling Heights High School campus East Lot,[traffic light].

Event entrance begins at 8 :45 AM

Results posted to www.eastsideracingcompany.com

Official Registration is through runsignup.com using the clickable link button:

*The sign-up app does charge a $3 fee for processing. This goes directly to RunSignup.com.

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The Philip S. Killoran Chapter of the National Honor Society at Sterling Heights High School is partnering with Friends of Foster Kids (FoFK) to host a 5K Race Walk /Run.

Race Day will be held at Sterling Heights High School

(12901 15 Mile Rd. Sterling Heights, MI. 48312.)

Saturday, May 17, 2025.

Registration/ Check-in/ Packet Pick-up begins at 8:30 AM.

Race/ Walk times begin at 10 AM.

Our vision is to build community through an outdoor event emphasizing fitness and fun while creating awareness and raising funds for foster kids. It is a fun event boasting a door prize drawing, a live DJ, a food truck, yard games, a spring craft, face painting, and a surprise celebrity announcer. Come meet Friends of Foster Kids, Impact One, and the Macomb DHHS workers. Learn more about foster kids in our area and programs to support them as well as families that host them.

The 5K Walk/ Run is geared toward the inclusion of families of all age ranges, abilities, and numbers. Both walk and run races will share the out & back course. Strollers welcome, no pets, please. A water station will be available at the halfway marker.

Registration Deadlines:

Early Bird Entrance: $25.00 from Feb. 1 - April 30

Pre-Sale Entrance: $30.00 from May 1 - May 16

Race Day Entrance: $35.00 Saturday, May 17, 2025

The registration fee includes: t-shirt, participation ribbon, electronic chipped bib as a walker or runner, door prize ticket, and snacks after the race.

Event will run rain or shine.

Donations for Friends of Foster Kids:

Please consider bringing a donation item: full-sized hygiene items and school supplies for all ages are always needed. A donation of five, full-sized hygiene items or school supplies will earn participants an extra door prize ticket!

Drop off donations at the Friends of Foster Kids booth during the event.

5K for Foster Kids Flower Power Costume Contest: runners can dress up, accessorize, etc...to enter the contest. Kick up your spirit! First prize, 2nd prize, 3rd prize. Other prizes awarded for largest family/ group registered, oldest runner/ walker, and youngest runner/ walker.

Our special guest-celebrity MC and Race Starter, will be Sterling Heights Mayor, Michael C Taylor.