Fire Up for Fun Run!
We are so excited to cheer on our Lester Leopards this Sunday! Please read carefully for lots of details. Please also consider volunteering some of your time on Race Day here to help make this event a success!
Race Packets
- If you registered for the race by Tuesday 9/17, your family's race packet will be delivered to your *Youngest* Lester student's classroom in a brown Trader Joe's shopping bag on either Monday or Tuesday.
- Please promptly review your race bibs and t-shirts. If there are any discrepancies, email FunRun@lesterpta.com
- Be sure to check out all the info inside from our generous sponsors - including some goodies and savings. Thank you for supporting the businesses that support Lester!
Race Morning
- REMINDER: the 5k starts at 8:00am this year. 5k runners are welcome to join us after 7:30am; race begins at 8:00.
- Bib pickup will be available from 7:30-8:15am. Please respect our busy race morning volunteers by arriving no later than 8:15 for any race morning needs.
- All Lester families are welcome to join us on the east blacktop at 8:30am. Help cheer on the 5k finishers! Visit our sponsors at their tables!
- Welcome & Warm Up will begin at about 8:45am.
- 1 Mile race starts at 9:00.
- Remind your Leopards that in order for their time to be officially captured they must cross under the inflatable start line (not go around it).
- Awards Ceremony for 1 Mile & 5k races will take place immediately after the 1 Mile race concludes.
- Please review the course maps below for both races, and plan accordingly for street closures that will be in place starting at 6:00am.
Hummer Park Family Fun
- Following the Awards Ceremonies, please head over to Hummer Park for some post-race family fun
- Enter onsite to win fabulous raffles! Tickets may be purchased onsite for $5 each or 6 for $25. Cashless is preferred via a GiveSmart link that will be provided onsite, or purchase using cash with our Fun Run volunteers.
- Plus cool down with Kona Ice, capture memories at the photo booth, and more with Lester friends old & new!
The Fun Continues After Fun Run!
- Be sure to check out Experiences available through February. Every ticket purchased is a donation that supports PTA programs for all Lester students!
The Fun Run is made possible by Lester PTA volunteers, sponsors, families and staff - thank you and see you on Sunday!
2024 Lester Fun Run
Sunday, September 29th
(new this year!) 8:00am - 5k
9:00am - 1 mile run/walk
Lester east blacktop
What is the Fun Run?
Our family-friendly 1 mile and 5k run/walk event is one of two flagship fundraising initiatives for the Lester PTA.
Nearly 40% of our programming budget is generated by the Fun Run and its surrounding events & Experiences!
Following the run, please join us at Hummer Park for post-race Family Fun, Awards, Raffles, and Kona Ice!