HOW IT STARTED
In 2019 the Harbor Food Bank was two weeks from closing. A handful of us who used its warehouse for storage put on a 5K to cover the rent for a quarter — forty-one people ran it, and we raised enough for five months.
We have run it every October since. The route has not changed, the entry fee has gone up by five dollars once, and the food bank has not come close to closing again.
It is organised by volunteers, underwritten by local sponsors, and produced each year by Ocho Creative, who donate the design, the website and the race-day signage. Nobody takes a fee.
THE ROUTE
Start on the green at Harbor Point Park, out along the harbour wall past the boatyard, around the lighthouse at the two-kilometre mark, and back the way you came.
The last three hundred metres run up onto the pier, which is the only rise on the course and the only place with a crowd two deep. It is a good place to have something left.
SIX YEARS OF IT
- 6
- Races run
- 4,900
- Runners all told
- $312K
- Raised since 2019
- 100%
- To the food bank
WHO PUTS IT ON
RACE DAY CREW
All volunteers. Most of them run it too.