5K Race to Benefit Habitat for Humanity to be Run at University of Richmond on April 6
March 25, 2002
The first Habitat for Humanity Run for Shelter will take place on the University of Richmond campus beginning at 9 a.m. on April 6.
The university's Habitat for Humanity student chapter is sponsoring the race with the help of the Richmond Road Runners Club and Henrico Doctors' Hospital. Organizers hope to attract 250 participants to the 5K run.
The $15 entry fee will include a free T-shirt. The top three male and female runners in each age group will win prizes. Registration forms and information are available online at www.richmond.edu/student/life/chaplaincy at Tyler Haynes Commons on campus, and on race day at the starting area between the soccer stadium and the Robins Center beginning at 7:30 a.m. The course will begin and end on the track, winding through campus and around Westhampton Lake.
Run for Shelter replaces The Richmond Century, a bike race, as the campus Habitat chapter's annual fundraising event. For 13 years, the 100-mile bike race helped the chapter raise more money for Habitat than any other college or university in the country.
"There are hundreds of families who do not have a place to call home, and Habitat for Humanity gives them this opportunity," said Neil Singh, president of the university's student chapter. "This is a great cause, and we would love everyone's participation."