Join us for the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine's Annual ASDAsh 5K to Beat Tooth Decay! This year, we will be starting and ending at Boettchers Commons! Additionally, we're including the Meatball Mile, featured on the course. This section will be a designated Strava Segment, and there will be a prize for the participant who claims the title of KOM (King/Queen of the Mountain)! [Unsure what a Strava segment is? Check out this link: https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216917137-What-s-a-segment]
This Year’s Donation: Geriatric Fund
All proceeds from this year’s event will benefit our geriatric patients at the Colorado School of Dental Medicine who are in need of dentures. Your participation helps ensure these individuals receive the dental care they need through the CU Dental Team Care Clinics.
Signing up will include a race tee-shirt, snacks at the race, and a raffle ticket for our awesome prizes!
Sign up by September 21st to guarantee a tee-shirt!
Oct 10, 2026
Distance — 5K
Type — Running
08:00
$30.00
These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for October in Aurora.
Learn more about the host city, Aurora.
Aurora is a home rule city located in Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 386,261 at the 2020 census, with 336,035 in Arapahoe County, 47,720 in Adams County, and 2,506 in Douglas County. It is the third-most-populous city in the state of Colorado and the 50th-most-populous city in the United States as of 2025. Aurora is a principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Denver-Aurora-Greeley, CO Combined Statistical Area, and a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
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