Ringing in Hope: A Salute to our Troops

🇺🇸 Race Overview

Celebrate Memorial Day and honor our past and present military heroes! Join your friends and neighbors on May 26, 2025 in Ashburn, VA for RINGING IN HOPE: A SALUTE TO OUR TROOPS and make this Memorial Day a truly memorable one. Run, Walk or Jog and celebrate with us as we honor and recognize the men and women who serve our country!

🕘 Race Times

• 8:00 am: 10K
• 8:10 am: 5K
• 9:30 am: 1M Freedom Fun Run

📍 Venue Location

The annual SALUTE TO OUR TROOPS (5K & 10K Race, 1M Freedom Fun Run) will kick off and conclude on the grounds of Christian Fellowship Church located at 44505 Atwater Drive, Ashburn Virginia 20147. While the start/finish line location will be new, the 5K and 10K courses will be largely the same as previous years and there’s plenty of room and parking for race day festivities!

❤️ Donations and Fundraising

Please consider making a donation, fundraise, or secure a Corporate Matching Donation to Boulder Crest Retreat. Additionally, participants will be asked to bring an in-kind donated item to Packet Pickup or on Registration Day.

🎉 Race Lineup

• Awards: More than $5,000 in awards and prizes to race participants!
• Family Fun: Family Fun Activities!
• Shirts: Technical T-shirts for 5K and 10K participants
• Entertainment: Patriotic Music and Entertainment
• For Kids: Dog Tags and Finishing Ribbons for 1K participants (children)
• Food: Food at the finish line
• Competitions: Team Competitions
• Post Race: Stay Post Race to Eat & Celebrate at One Loudoun!

🏃‍♂️ Event Pricing

5K Timed Event

• $45: Until Midnight April 1, 2025 (Early Bird Registration)
• $50: From April 2 – May 26, 2025

10K Timed Event

• $50: Until Midnight April 1, 2025 (Early Bird Registration)
• $55: From April 2 – May 26, 2025

1M Fun Run/Walk

• $15: per person 3 and older (under 3 is free)
• $25: with tech-shirt option
• *Note: Walkers under 12 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. If parent/guardian is registered for 10K or 5K race, parent/guardian is free for 1K event.

🏆 Awards

In both the 10K and 5K gift certificates will be given to the top 3 overall men and top 3 women, as well as the top 3 male and female finishers in the following age groups: 11 and under, 12-14, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80-84, and 85 & over. A trophy will also be awarded to the largest team in both the 5K and 10K events.

👕 Tech Shirt Deadline

To be guaranteed an Official Ringing in Hope Tech shirt, please be sure to register by May 10, 2025. After that date, shirts will be available on race day following the race on a first come, first served basis, if still available. The event offers a uniquely designed commemorative short-sleeved technical t-shirt to registrants in the 5K and 10K Race. Runners will receive the t-shirt size they have ordered as indicated on their bib in order to help ensure participants receive what they requested.

🌐 Links and Information

Click here to view the event organizer's website: http://www.ringinginhope.com/

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🤝 Designated Non-Profit

Boulder Crest Retreat
Healing Heroes. One Family at a Time.
Boulder Crest is committed to improving the physical, emotional, spiritual, and economic wellbeing of our nation's military, veterans, first responders, and their family members. Their programs ensure they have the opportunity to live lives of passion, purpose, and service at home. Boulder Crest provides free, world class, short-duration, high-impact retreats for combat veterans and their families.

Please consider making a donation, fundraise, or secure a Corporate Matching Donation to Boulder Crest Retreat. Additionally, participants will be asked to bring an in-kind donated item to Packet Pickup or on Race Day.

For more information, please visit the race website.