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The Carolina Hurricanes Fan Fest will celebrate the organization’s 25 years in North Carolina and feature Hurricanes alumni, street hockey and ice skating, as well as local vendors, food trucks, craft beer, live music, art installations, photo stations, kids’ zone activations, and inflatables. Read more...

Benefitting Soles4Souls Sole Mates is a celebration of health and fitness and is coming back for another year! There’s no better way to celebrate than with friends and family. So grab your running buddy and get to the starting line! Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (a nonprofit service organization) is joining us to support Soles4Souls’s global mission to wear out poverty Read more...

WHAT: Cooking for the Kids is a fun, exciting competition among some of the Triangle’s premier chefs where guests and culinary judges decide who advances to the next round. Each extraordinary evening brings together two amazing chefs, six delectable courses and food lovers. WHEN: Round 1: Feb. 27-Mar. 2 ($100) | Round 2: Mar. 8-9 ($125) | Finale: Mar. 15 Read more...

Fit & Able is proud of our sixth year of running the Cary Greenways Half-marathon with 5K and 10K races. Choose your challenge! Run the trails you love but get timed! This race is capped so sign up soon! Participants have a window during which to start the race of their choice and have until 11:00 AM to finish. The Read more...

Fit & Able is excited to bring back the Sunset Scramble at Bond Park! It’s not quite a lap race but you will get your split times for each lap of your distance! There’s ONE COURSE but THREE RACES for you to choose from to challenge yourself for how far you can go before the course closes. BUT you only Read more...

Supporting the Wake Tech Foundation Fit & Able invites you to be part of the 5th running of Fostering Footsteps for Bright Futures to support the Wake Tech Foundation’s Fostering Bright Futures program at the North Scott Wake Tech campus. Race either a 3 Mile, 5 Mile, or Fun Run race around a beautiful campus and support a great cause. Read more...

Benefitting Many Local Charities Fit & Able invites you to be part of the Charity Distance Festival to support many area nonprofits that serve our community. Nonprofits provide important programs and services to our community for the needs not met by the government or other organizations. Unfortunately, they can’t all have their own races to help raise support for their Read more...

Vendor Registration is open to take part in NC Sugar Rush, the Triangle’s All-Dessert Food Rodeo. 20+ Dessert Vendors will be there to satisfy your cravings for Sweets including vegan desserts and pet treats! Visit www.ncsugarrush.com for more information and to sign up!! Open to Food Trucks and Tent Vendors. Read more...

Benefitting Cary’s Play It Forward Program Cary is the best place to live and one reason is that Cary has more than 30 parks and natural areas, more than 90 miles (and growing!) of greenways, seven special use facilities, four world-class sports venues, and nine staffed all-ages program facilities. If you want an active, healthy place to live for your Read more...

Monster Mash & Dash Every year Amberly hosts a race through our beautiful neighborhood to raise money to support a local nonprofit organization that serves our community selected by the Amberly Community Service Club. This year they chose Special Olympics North Carolina! PLUS because we’re racing on Halloween we’re giving away some great prizes for Best Costume and Best Family Read more...

Benefiting A New Lease on Life We are proud to announce our newest event – Leaves to Leases – benefitting A New Lease on Life. They have helped us support so many other nonprofits at our other races with the big teams they bring out so we wanted to pay it forward and build a race just for them! A Read more...

Benefitting the US Veterans Corps Fit & Able is proud to bring back the Stars, Stripes, & Strides event benefitting the US Veterans Corps to celebrate Veterans Day weekend! Their Mission: We are a Corps of Military and First Responder Veterans performing “Hands On” community service with a mission deployment attitude! The US Veterans Corps was an idea that was Read more...

Benefiting the Salvation Army of Wake County Fit & Able is proud to bring back the Kettle Krush in partnership with the Salvation Army of Wake County and hosted by the NC State Highway Patrol as a part of their mission to improve the quality of life in our community. Join us at the Kettle Krush help support the Salvation Read more...

Fit & Able is proud to bring back the Turkey Chase! We hope you enjoyed the delicious Thanksgiving eats with your friends and family. But now it’s time to burn off the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and pie! With three distances – including a 5K, 10K, and 20K – you can choose your challenge! Invite your friends, pick your race, Read more...

Families that end the old year focusing on fitness will begin the New Year building on that healthy mission. Pursuing a healthy lifestyle is not a short-lived New Year’s Resolution but a way of life that you carry from year to year. So, join Fit & Able to Run Out the Old Year together! All in-person and virtual 2 Mile, Read more...