Proceeds to benefit RUNAMHERST.com
Click HERE to see photos from 2025!
Additional gear items can be ordered separately and shipped directly to your home. Please note: these extra items are in addition to, not a replacement for, the included registration shirt.
Order here: Skeleton Run Spiritwear Store
START TIME
7:00am - Race Day Registration and Packet Pick-Up inside Steele Gym Lobby
8:30am - 1/4 Mile Silly Run (K-5th grade)
9:00am - 1/2 Mile Funny Run (6-8th grade)
9:10am - Costume Contest in the main gym
9:30am - 5K Run
10:30am - Awards presentation
TIMING
Chip timing for 5K participants
REGISTRATION
5K Run
$30 Pre-Registration
$35 Day of Race
1/4 Mile Kid's Run and 1/2 Mile Kid's Run
Free!
Youth runners in the RunAmherst.com Little Comets Running Club do not have to register for the 400/800 youth runs. Registration for these athletes is only needed if they want to register for the 5K race or purchase a shirt. Shirts can be picked up in the main gym before 9:30am on race day.
All mailed pre-registered entries must be received by Friday, October 16, 2026
Please make checks payable to: Hermes Sports and Events
Mail entries to:
Hermes Sports and Events
2425 West 11th Street #2
Cleveland, OH 44113
WHAT YOU GET
Participation Medals
Synthetic Shirt, Cotton Shirt, Stocking Hat (Cotton option only available thru October 1 - Synthetic Shirt (while supplies last) or Stocking Hat after that)
Dog and Stroller divisions!
Post-race food and drinks
Walkers welcome
Awards to overall and age group winners
AWARDS
Top men and top women overall
Top Master's men and women overall (40 & over)
Top 3 overall dog and stroller division runners (eligible for age group awards as well!)
Top 3 men and women in the following age categories:
5K Men and Women
7 & Under, 8-11. 12-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80 & Over
MORE INFORMATION
For more information, contact Hermes Sports & Events at 216-623-9933
Oct 25, 2026
Distance — 6.4K
Type — Running
08:30
$0.00
Oct 25, 2026
Distance — 3.2K
Type — Running
09:00
$0.00
Oct 25, 2026
Distance — 5K
Type — Running
09:30
$30.00
These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for October in Amherst.
Learn more about the host city, Amherst.
Amherst is a city of 12,000 people (2018) in the Greater Cleveland area, near the Lake Erie shore. It has been called the Sandstone Center of the World. Its quarries were an important source of grindstones. There were nine sandstone quarries in the area operating at the peak of production. Many early buildings are constructed of native sandstone.
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Official finishing times from previous editions of Amherst Skeleton Run.
| Place | Name | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Eric Watts | 21:58.39 | |
| 🥈 | Brittany Downs | 24:24.54 | |
| 🥉 | Dianne Nimon | 27:46.67 | |
| 4 | Jeff Schwarz | 27:59.63 | |
| 5 | Lauren Rice | 31:45.2 | |
| 6 | Angela Teets | 33:19.77 | |
| 7 | Jessa Schmitz | 33:52.91 | |
| 8 | Kelly Breunig | 34:32.91 | |
| 9 | Kelsey Watson | 35:07.83 | |
| 10 | Mari Lenoci Kershaw | 36:30.29 | |
| 11 | Jamie Gnagy | 38:09.32 | |
| 12 | Kelly Hobson | 40:23.68 | |
| 13 | Cathy Anderson | 44:59.36 | |
| 14 | Mary Mattey | 48:32.44 | |
| 15 | Rob Mattey | 48:32.77 | |
| 16 | Nathan Rohner | 51:44.58 | |
| 17 | Kaytlyn Allen | 57:55.08 |
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