Join the FBC Heart & Soles Team!
In-person event: Monday, 5/30 starting at South Park, 8:30a
Or participate virtually from any location anytime between 5/24–5/30
FBC Earthworks Team Blue trail run virtual option: Thursday, 5/26 at Lawrence River Trails lower trail head, 6:15a
If you’d like to run at an earlier, cooler time of day and on trails instead of concrete, join the Team Blue trail runners on Thursday, 5/26 at 6:15 at the Lawrence River Trails lower trailhead and wear your t-shirt!
Fun things planned for Home Run 5k!
- Meet student-athletes Earl Bostick Jr., Jalon Daniels, Kenny Logan Jr., Devin Neal and Ky Thomas at the in-person event! They’ll be on hand to help lead warm-ups, sign autographs and take photos with participants, award medals to top finishers, and race little ones in a fun run!
- Free kids’ activities at the in-person event will include the fun run, bounce houses, face painting, bubbles and samples from Smoothie King.
- Sarah Plake, KSHB-TV Channel 41 reporter, will emcee the 5K Home Run.
- The largest youth team will win free meals at Hawaiian Bros! (ABY youth group, if you’re interested, you can have your own team, or join up with FBC Heart & Soles!)
- The top team and individual fundraisers will win Lawrence Beer Co. gift cards. (You can request your own individual GiveGab fundraising page if you’d like to compete for the individual prize. Let Wendy Wheeler know, and she’ll make the connection to get that set up for you!)
Ways to participate
Option 1: Move your body!
The 5K Home “Run” isn’t just for runners. In-person participants can run or walk, fast or slow. Or, do your 5K (or more!) however you’d like if you’re participating virtually!
FYI, teams don’t have to run or walk together unless they want to, and virtual and in-person participants can be on the same team.
Option 2: Skip all that physical activity and just give a donation!
Not that we’re discouraging physical activity…but this is an option! Our FBC team goal is to raise $1,000. Any amount you can give is appreciated!
How to donate:
- Through FBC’s online giving page (choose “Give to FAMILY PROMISE” from the top drop-down menu), or
- By check. Please write “Family Promise Home Run 5K” in the memo line, and mail it to FBC.
- If you’d like to give directly to Family Promise of Lawrence, donate on FBC’s GiveGab page set up by Family Promise for this purpose.
Option 3: Volunteer at the Race!
Folks are needed to cheer on participants (and make sure intersections are clear), man the post-race snack area, hand out water, retrieve timing chips, and much more. And you’ll get an awesome T-shirt! Our very own Wendy Wheeler is actually the lead volunteer this year too—woot-woot! You can sign up to volunteer here.
How to sign up
The signup process is pretty self-explanatory as you move through the screens. For those who’d like some guidance, read the instructions below, then click the “Sign me up!” button. Be ready with your:
- Contact info
- T-shirt size
- Credit card info (cost is $25 if you sign up as a team member, or $30 if you sign up as an individual; both options also have a small fee/tax).
INSTRUCTIONS:
- After you click the “Sign me up” button, the FBC Heart & Soles team page will open in a new browser tab. (You can swap back and forth between that tab and this one to follow these instructions.) On the right of the team page, click the “Join Team Registration” button.
- Under “Who are you registering?” click to select from the options (Me, Other Adult, or Minor). Below that, if you already have an account with runsignup.com you can click “Sign In,” otherwise complete the form with the info requested (contact info, choose a password, etc.) At the bottom under “Choose Your Event,” select “5K Home Run In-Person” or “5K Home Run Virtual.” Finally, click either “Add Another Registrant” or “Continue.”
- Read the waiver (make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of it) and accept it by typing your initials in the box provided (the capital letters underlined above the box), then click “Continue.”
- You should now be on a page titled “Team Registration for [Your Name].” Under “Select Team Registration,” make sure “FBC Heart & Soles” is selected, then click “Continue.”
- Select your T-shirt size. Click “Continue.”
- On the next page there’s the option to make a donation above what you’re paying to register. Type an amount, or leave it as $0.00 and click “Continue.”
- Select how you want to get your T-shirt (pick it up for free, or pay $6 to have it mailed to you). Click “Continue.”
- Under “Virtual Race Information,” select whether you’d like to get info about the race (“sign up for email” or “I don’t want to receive email”—your email address is automatically populated from when you entered it earlier), make sure your correct time zone is selected, and click “Continue.”
- Confirm that your registration information is all correct, then enter your credit card info and click “Confirm Payment.” You’re registered!