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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...

Registration is now OPEN for the 35th annual Walk for Hope! In the 34 years since it began, our flagship charity event has helped raise millions of dollars towards better understanding and treatments of illnesses like depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, postpartum depression, schizophrenia, and anorexia. Each year, thousands of participants come together at the Angus Barn in Raleigh to walk Read more...

Join us for year’s 7th annual Pink Pumps and Bow Ties Gala on Saturday, October 21st at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary! Enjoy cocktails, a multi-course dinner and entertainment! You don’t want to miss our popular Champagne Diamond Giveaway sponsored by Diamonds Direct of Raleigh and of course a live auction with fabulous items! We hope you’ll join us to 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 200 Club of Wake County After a year as the Kettle Krush for the Salvation Army, Fit & Able is proud to bring back the Cozy Toes race 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 Cosy Toes help support the 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...

Back by popular demand for the 11th year, it won’t be long before its time to greet the New Year again with a a fun run with friends and a big mug of hot chocolate! As always everyone who finishes the race gets a great mug and medal, all the hot chocolate they can drink, and all dog entries go Read more...

Benefitting Soles 4 Souls 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 Read more...

Fit & Able is proud of our seventh year of running the Cary Greenways Half-marathon with 5K, 10K, and 13.1 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. 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...

Fit & Able invites you to be part of the 6th 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. The 5 Mile race includes Read more...

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 missions. That’s why Fit & Able is staging the Bloom & Zoom charity distance festival at no charge to the participating nonprofits to help them raise Read more...

Fit & Able is proud to introduce the Sizzling Soles Half-marathon at Mills School Park! If you’re looking for a low-key race to keep you active over the summer, give you a goal to train for, and get you ready for the fall race season this is the race for you! Every runner chases the dream of running a marathon. Read more...