Twinkie Run 2023!
The Twinkie Run is back – Saturday, April 1!
NEW THIS YEAR – KIDS RUN FREE!
Bob, our inspiration, was passionate about getting kids to be active. In his honor, participants 12 and under RUN FREE. Registration for those 12 and under requires the consent of a parent/guardian. We hope those adults will run too! Donations accepted. Thank you.
Registrations and purchases for 2020 will be honored at the 2023 Twinkie Run. Please stay in touch through Facebook. 2020 registrants will also be contacted through email as well.
• Gallup Park Canoe Livery
• Custom finisher medals for EVERY PARTICIPANT!
• 7:45am – 8:59am race number pickup
• 9:00am RACE START
• Early Bird registration (by midnight, February 19th) : $17 for adults and kids 13 and over on race day
• Regular registration (February 20th – March 12th): $20 (12 and under run free)
• Late online registration (March 13th – March 26th): $23 (12 and under run free)
• WAY LATE ONLINE registration (March 27th – March 31st): $25 (12 and under run free)
• RACE DAY registration – if not full! (April 1st): $30
• OPTIONAL Pre-ordered T-shirts: $13 (Midnight Navy – and they will be SOFT). Expect a modest shirt price increase on race day.
• VERY LIMITED quantities of T-shirts MAY be available race day. If you want one, order one!
• Awards: Custom age group awards for adults and youth
• HELP FUND RESEARCH! All net proceeds from the run will fund research aggressively seeking a cure or effective treatment for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Learn about the research donations by Active Against ALS at www.activeagainstals.org
• GRILLED TWINKIES and chocolate, post-race goodies, and special flavor post-race Twinkies (!!!)
Never been to a Twinkie Run? Check out photos from the previous race!
Twinkie Run 2019 Album1
Twinkie Run 2019 Album2
Active Against ALS wishes to thank our two main sponsors, Blue Care Network and Bank of Ann Arbor, for their generous support – their contributions make the Twinkie Run a better event for our community and stronger fundraiser for ALS!
We wish to thank YOU for your support over the years as we – and perhaps you – have all endured our own challenges on the way to our ten-year milestone last fall.
Sincerely,
Your Twinkie Run Race Directors
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Race Details:
Here is a link to the Twinkie Run Official Course Map: TWINKIE 5K Course Map (Official) In the past, people who ate Twinkies had to run over a mat to count their Twinkie eating. With the retirement of our dedicated timer, we have had to move to an honor system. Eat your Twinkies proudly and for your own satisfaction. Eat one, two, or more! You keep the score. Live for the day!
Want to be a sponsorship hero? Sponsors help cover our costs so we can donate as much as possible from registration to ALS research. Help pay for race timing, T-shirts, Twinkies, medals… Remember that Ann Arbor Active Against ALS is a 501(c)3 non-profit – sponsorship donations are tax-deductible if you can use the donation.
Contact us at [email protected].
Thank you very much to our generous supporters! The Twinkie Run would be only a dream without their amazing support:
- Thank you to our generous Silver sponsors, Bank of Ann Arbor and Blue Care Network of Michigan.
- Thanks to Black Diesel Coffee for donating the yummy coffee and caffeine to warm us up before and after the race – and to Meijer for helping out with the Twinkies that will stuff so many faces!
- AND – we could not put on this race without YOUR support as well as the support of our volunteers!
In-Kind Donors:
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 Meijer – Ann Arbor-Saline Road |
Make your own Twinkies!
The 2012 Twinkie Run
Our wacky 5K run was featured in Gourmet Magazine this year! Of course, they like the homemade Twinkie contest at the end of the race. We also made it onto Greatist.com for the Most Incredible Themed Races list. Thanks for being active with Ann Arbor Active Against ALS and supporting the effort to increase awareness of Lou Gehrig’s Disease while raising funds for research toward a cure! And thank you to our terrific sponsors!
April 1st 2011 – The Annual April Fools Twinkie Run!
The Twinkie Run was started in 2010 by Shawn Jyawook, of Jyco Sealing Technologies, Inc. The race is in memory of his employee and friend, Jim Mong, who passed away from ALS in 2009. Shawn and his wife wanted to do something to honor Jim’s memory. As Shawn explained, “I wanted a great way to have something continue that was humorous, like Jim Mong’s personality, and that linked into something that I enjoy- running. The Twinkie part is just funny and a great way to remember someone with a smile and not with sadness – and that is the person Jim was, a man of great humor and great compassion.
We are pleased this has turned into an annual tradition!”
Shawn
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Check out this article about the 2011 Twinkie Run in the Ann Arbor Chronicle: Monthly Milestone: Internet Twinkies
AnnArbor.com also published some photos: Images from the Twinkie Run held Friday evening at Gallup Park
Read about the very first Twinkie Run in 2010 to honor Jim Mong.