Abby Furco Memorial Color Fun Run 2024

THANK YOU FOR AN INCREDIBLE 2023 EVENT! We raised $11,000 for St. Baldrick's Foundation. 2024 Registration opens September 1st!

We are SO excited to do it again! Join us Sunday, October 20th for the THIRD Annual Abby Furco Memorial Color Fun Run honoring Abby, our beloved friend who passed away too soon along with supporting and loving all those affected by childhood cancer.

Our color fun run/walk, is a non-bib, approx. 5k course filled with color stations throughout. You can run, walk, push a stroller...bring your entire family!! Come out and celebrate life while also giving back to foundations that helped Abby, her family and other childhood cancer fighters!! 

The event is a fundraiser hosted by Abby's Legacy Foundation benefitting St. Baldrick's Foundation and EDMARC. All donations are tax-deductible. See more about both charities on our Donate Page!

The Abby Furco Memorial Color Run is fully funded by local sponsors, we are so thankful for them. We are looking for additional business & individual race sponsors to help cover the race costs so more money can go to charity! Please contact pattylynn1@aol.com for more info. Last year our event was 100% community sponsored & all registration fees went to charity...we hope to do it again!! 

Get a glimpse of what you are in for through the news coverage from our past years' events at
https://www.wtkr.com/news/she-had-such-a-colorful-personality-family-friends-of-leukemia-patient-raise-money-for-cancer-research
https://www.wtkr.com/news/color-fun-run-honoring-virginia-beach-teen-raises-more-than-8-000-in-first-year

EVENT ENTRY 

-$25 per adult participant ($5 price increase on October 6)
-$15 per 18 and under participant 

All participants will receive a white race T-shirt with logo and sunglasses to wear during the race. Sign up by October 5th to guarantee your T-shirt size event day. If you register after that date, we will do our best to have your t-shirt size!

All race proceeds are donated to Abby's Legacy Foundation and gifted to St. Baldrick's Foundation and EDMARC. Donations can be made at registration or also by clicking the Donate button linked above.

EVENT DETAILS

Date - Sunday, October 20, 2024

Location - Lago Mar Park at Back Bay, 801 Casa Verde Way, Virginia Beach, VA 23456. Start/Finish festival at the park with course through the Lago Mar Neighborhood. 
Event will take place rain or shine, watch the website, social media (see below) & registered participants will receive email if there is severe weather. 

PARKING - Please come towards the park area from the Nimmo Pkwy direction. There will be parking signs and people to help direct you. We will park on the “inside” of the course, along Casa Verde, Santa Fe and Valle Rio Way. If you are dropping off, please drop off on Casa Verde Way.

EVENT TIMELINE

9am - 9:40am - Runner check-in 

9:45am - Start line warm-up 

10am - Color fun run start

Festival music, snacks & fun to follow. 

VOLUNTEERS 

Watch for a Volunteer Interest Form coming Sept 2024 (will be announced to prior volunteers & on social media) to sign up or contact Patty at pattylynn1@aol.com  You will be provided a race t-shirt for helping. Volunteer check-in times will be emailed out as the race gets closer, plan on anywhere from 7am to Noon. If you want to volunteer and race, please note that on the interest form. We will need many, many hands - thank you!!!

UPDATES & INFO

Follow us on Instagram @abby.color.run.2024 or Facebook Abby Furco Memorial Color Run and your race registration email for information updates. 

More about Abby's Legacy Foundation, 501c3 founded in memory of Abby to help support childhood cancer patients and families through funding research, support, hope & love go to www.abbyslegacyfoundation.org or Instagram @abbyslegacyfoundation

For more on Abby's incredible journey watch this memorial special https://www.wtkr.com/news/beloved-virginia-beach-teen-fighting-cancer-passes-away or visit her site at www.caringbridge.org/visit/abbyfurco

Thank you!!

Patty (Abby’s mom), Caroline, Elizabeth, Jenna, Maggie & Izzy (our incredible founders & planning committee)