Columbus State Cougar 5K Challenge

🏃‍♂️ Welcome to the 2025 Cougar 5K Challenge

🎯 Our Purpose:

• Event Host: Every year the Columbus State Staff Advisory Council hosts the Cougar 5K Challenge to raise money for student course textbooks and supplies scholarships.
• Overlooked Barrier: The cost of course material is a significant and often overlooked barrier to finishing college.
• Support Needed: While Columbus State makes every effort to provide students affordable options, sometimes there is no way around the costs of up-to-date, high-quality course textbooks and supplies.
• Your Impact: Your participation and support of this race will help us to provide course material scholarships so students can “cross the finish line” of their education.

📝 Registration:

• Event Options: This year you can choose to signup for the in-person or virtual events.
• Individual or Team: In either case, you can register as an individual or as part of a team.
• Fundraising Opportunity: When registering, you will also have an opportunity to become a fundraiser or to make a donation.

📅 How Does a Virtual 5K Work?:

• Flexibility: The participant can run or walk the 5K wherever and whenever he/she chooses between Saturday, May 3th and Sunday May 10th.
• Follow-up Email: We’ll send a follow-up email closer to the start date to explain how to submit your race time to qualify for some awesome prizes.
• No Placement Medals: Due to this being a virtual race where there will be inconsistencies in everyone’s chosen course, possible weather, tracking devices, etc., no placement medals will be awarded to those who choose the virtual format.
• Participant Rewards: Instead, everyone will receive a participation medal, a race shirt, and swag bag.

⌚ How to submit your times for results:

Manual Method:

• Run/Walk: Run/walk your 5k (3.1 mile) distance anywhere and anytime from May 4 to May 12.
• Record Time: Record your run/walk time on a piece of paper or phone.
• Return to Race Page: Come back to this race page.
• Login: Make sure you are logged into runsignup.com.
• Results Tab: Locate the "Results" tab at the top of the menu.
• Submit Results: Click "Submit Virtual Results" button and locate your participant information to submit.

Automatic Method (optional):

• Download App: Download the RaceJoy App.
• Locate Event: Locate the Columbus Cougar 5k Challenge event in the App.
• Use Course: Use the Race Anywhere course when you run/walk your 5k.
• Submit Times: At the end of your 5k, submit your times through the app (additional instructions will be sent to you about using RaceJoy).

📦 Package Pick Up

Columbus State Community College DX Bookstore
283 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215

• Pick Up Date: Thursday, May 1 - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
• Second Date: Friday, May 2 - 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Otherwise you can pick up your packet the day of the event. Arrangements will be made for participants not able to pick up packets.

During the registration, you will have an option to not receive a shirt and/or medal. If you select not to receive one or both of these items, the savings from not having to purchase them will go directly back to student scholarships.

For more information, visit the race page: Columbus State Cougar 5K Challenge.