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Building Healthy Communities 5K Run/Walk and Wellness Expo

location_city Charleston

location_on South Carolina

flag United States

calendar_today 14 Feb, 2026

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About the Event

 

Location

Hampton Park
30 Mary Murray Drive
Charleston, SC 29403

 

General info/introduction

Come join us for the 11th Annual Building Healthy Communities 5K Run/Walk & Wellness Expo. The 5K run/walk will raise funds to benefit the MUSC Children's Health Wellness Works Program. Come run or walk a USATF-certified 5K course to help us in our work of supporting healthy lifestyle habits for kids and their families. We also have a lot of exciting raffle prizes to offer, so bring cash or a card to purchase raffle tickets and participate in the drawing after the race (no checks will be accepted).

 

Your registration fee includes a t-shirt, a race packet with exciting freebies, water, and healthy snacks. We also offer official timing and overall/age-group awards (top three in each group)! A finisher's medal will be given to all who complete the entire 5K course. The Wellness Expo, day-of registration, and on-site packet pick-up begin at 8:00 am. A mandatory pre-race meeting is at 8:45am, group warm-up kicks off at 8:50 am, and the run/walk starts at 9:00 am. The finish-line party including food truck (food for purchase), face painting (free), Wellness Expo, prize raffle, age-group awards, and healthy snacks will follow!

 

You do not have to be a paid and registered participant to enjoy the Wellness Expo and raffle--everyone is welcome. Please come and enjoy the Expo. Healthy snacks and portable toilets will be available at the event for your convenience. 

 
Wellness Works Program Information

MUSC Children's Health Wellness Works program is a wellness/weight management program and lipid treatment clinic for kids and teens. We work with kids and their families to promote healthy habits through individualized clinic visits, group education sessions, and a fitness program. We have had fantastic success and we currently have over 600 families enrolled from all over the state! Since we are a non-profit program, we rely heavily on fundraising events that also promote our healthy message through exercise and health promotion.

 

Thank you so much for your support of these children and their families and for helping us build healthy communities!  More information can be found on our website at www.MUSCKids.org/WellnessWorks and our Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/MUSCkidsWellnessWorks.

 

Let’s thank our sponsors for this event:
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Exciting raffle prizes you can enter to win (subject to change):

Interesting and informative booths/vendors: 

We also will have the ever-inspiring Meredith Nelson back for the pre-race warm-up, a visit from Charlie the RiverDog, AND the fabulous Black Girls Run cheerleaders!

Races Offered

5K

Feb 14, 2026

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Distance — 5K

terrain

Type — Road running

timer

45 days remaining

Weather Overview

These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for February in Charleston.

Temp (°C)
Feels Like (°C)
thermostat 9.1° / 18.3°
wb_sunny 5.9° / 16.1°
Wind (km/h)
Humidity (%)
air 13.6 /
water_drop 76.9%

About Charleston

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Charleston is the largest and oldest city in the state of South Carolina in the United States of America. Its historic downtown is on a peninsula formed by two rivers, the Ashley and the Cooper, flowing into the Atlantic, and protected from the open ocean by surrounding islands. Charleston was captured in the American Civil War without much property damage, so the historic part of town has buildings that are hundreds of years old. The current downtown skyline, with practically no tall buildings due to the city's height restriction ordinance, is dominated by church steeples and the stunning Arthur Ravenel cable-stay bridge over the Cooper River. The city is a major port on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and a popular destination for domestic and international tourists.

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