Race for the Cure
The 5K run will start at Front and Elm streets at 8:45 a.m. Saturday, followed by the 5K Walk and Family Fun Walk.
Anyone interested in participating can register at Easton Town Center community room, across from Abuelo’s Restaurant, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today. On race day, people can register at the Vern Riffe Center, 77 S. High St., from 6 to 8:30 a.m.
Online registration remains open until 2 p.m. today at komencolumbus.org.
The cost to register before the Race is $40 for adults, $35 for survivors and $25 for kids younger than 18. All prices increase $5 on race day. of bed,” Jubach said. “I had to have something or I feel like I could have gone down a really sad path.”
Komen Columbus hopes to raise $500,000 through Saturday’s race, said Nicolle Racey, Komen Columbus director of communications and marketing.
Stasi Trout, 49 of Hilliard, is a six-year breast cancer survivor and her race team, Stasi’s Supporters, has raised more than $8,000 this year.
When Trout learned that she had breast cancer, her family already knew the effects all too well. Her mom was a breast cancer survivor; her mother-in-law died from it.
“It’s important to help other women and to find a cure so that my niece, my daughter, my grandchildren don’t have to have a world with breast cancer,” Trout said.
More than 28,000 people registered to participate in last year’s race.