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5K Running & Reading Challenge

The Start2Finish 5K Running & Reading Challenge, which is the largest children’s run in Canada and beyond, takes place annually at the end of May, and marks the conclusion of the Running & Reading Club program for the year.

The run this year will be held at York University, as well as a number of other community locations nationwide, and will be expanding to additional university campuses across the country in the near future.

The race is coupled with a Jeopardy-style Reading Challenge, followed by an awards ceremony celebrating the children’s accomplishments complete with medals, trophies and prizes, as well as activities such as a fun zone, a reading zone, and lunch for all of the kids.

Locations: 

Saskatoon: 
Sunday April 29th
Run Start Time: 8:00 am
Police 1/2 Marathon and 5km Run, 

Edmonton: 
Saturday May 12th
Run Start Time: 10:05 am
Community Action Dash 10/5km Run

Winnipeg: (William Whyte and Sister McNamara)
Thursday June 7th
Event Start Time: 3:30pm
Assiniboine Park (Tentative)

Halifax: 
Saturday May 19th
Run Start Time: 2:00pm
Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon, Doctors of Nova Scotia Youth Run

Central and Southwestern Ontario Clubs: 
(Toronto, Guelph, Waterloo, London, Burlington, Oakville, Hamilton)
Saturday May 26th
Run Start Time: 9:30 am
York University Panam Stadium, Toronto 

Eastern Ontario: (Ottawa and Kingston)
Saturday May 26th
Run Start Time: 4:00 pm
Run Ottawa HGT Sports Ottawa 5km run

Calgary: 
Sunday May 27th
Run Start Time: 1:00 pm
ScotiaBank Calgary Marathon Goodlife 5km Family Run/Walk

Burnaby: 
Sunday June 3rd
Run Start time: 9:30am
Run Up for Downs 5km Run/Walk, Simon Fraser University

Winnipeg: (Opaskwayak)
Sunday June 17th
Run Start Time: 7:15 am
Manitoba Marathon Super Run, University of Manitoba

To find out how you can volunteer at the 5K Running & Reading Challenge or for further information regarding the Start2Finish Running & Reading Club program, please contact Michelle Wray, Director of Community & Volunteer Relations, at 1-888-320-8844 or (905) 319-1885 ext. 206, or michelle.wray@start2finishonline.org.

Earlier Event: May 16
National Run4Change
Later Event: August 14
Backpack Packing Event

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge the land on which we work, and which Start2Finish operates, is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples inhabited and cared for this land. In particular, we acknowledge the territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land that is home to the Metis; and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land, and by doing so, give our respect to its first inhabitants.

We welcome you to acknowledge the land you are on https://www.whose.land/fr/

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