Name: Paws for Life
Start: 2026-10-03
End: 2026-10-03
Location: Rolesville

About the Event

This is one race which is happy to say "they have gone to the dogs." The featured 5K, which begins at 10 am, is followed by a 1-mile walk for participants and their dogs.

The race starts and finishes at the Sanford Creek Elementary School in Rolesville.

Profits from the event will benefit the Paws for Life Animal Rescue (formerly known as the Franklin County Humane Society) in their goal to build an animal shelter where area pets find safe refuge until they can be adopted to permanent homes.

In the 5K, awards will be presented to the first three males overall, to the first three females overall, and to the first-place finisher in each of the following age groups (both sexes): 15-under, 16-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, and 65-over.

Races Offered

1 Mile

Oct 03, 2026

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Distance — 1.6K

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Type — Running

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10:00

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5k

Oct 03, 2026

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Distance — 5K

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10:00

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About Rolesville

Learn more about the host city, Rolesville.

Rolesville is a town in northeastern Wake County, North Carolina, United States, a suburb of the capital city of Raleigh. It is the second oldest town in Wake County. The population was 9,475 at the 2020 census.

Hotels & Places to Stay

Race Results

Official finishing times from previous editions of Paws for Life.

Place	Name	Gender	Age	City	Time
🥇	Matt Cross	M	44	Wake Forest, NC	18:52
🥈	Nathaniel Guzman	M	16	Wake Forest, NC	20:50.2
🥉	David Johnson	M	42	Durham, NC	22:20.1
4	Tommy Stern	M	31	Wake Forest, NC	22:30.3
5	Jeffery Frounfelker	M	43	Wake Forest, NC	23:45
6	Sarah Adams	F	27	Raleigh, NC	24:51.5
7	Mark Tate	M	29	Raleigh, NC	25:00.7
8	Matt Mashburn	M	45	Wake Forest, NC	25:13.5
9	Amy Cross	F	39	Wake Forest, NC	25:22.6
10	Jackson Posgai	M	13	Wake Forest, NC	25:26.4
11	Lucas Mashburn	M	13	Wake Forest, NC	28:27.5
12	Dylan Plaskon	M	30	Durham, NC	28:40.5
13	Merissa MacDougall	F	36	Wake Forest, NC	29:07.7
14	E. Pelletier	F	9	Raleigh, NC	29:09.6
15	Jessica Besenfelder	F	35	Raleigh, NC	29:26
16	Simo Boukhris	M	28	Raleigh, NC	29:39.5
17	Emily Mashburn	F	46	Wake Forest, NC	29:48.4
18	Sophie Fernandez	F	29	Cary, NC	29:48.4
19	Jake Coleman	M	32	Raleigh, NC	30:01.5
20	Richard Harker	M	74	Raleigh, NC	30:33.9
21	Gue Ayers	M	58	Youngsville, NC	30:40.5
22	Mandy Posgai	F	45	Wake Forest, NC	30:46.3
23	Randy Lanham	M	51	Louisburg, NC	31:49.3
24	John Castranio	M	34	Chapel Hill, NC	31:53.2
25	J. Castranio	M	12	Chapel Hill, NC	31:54.2
26	Heather Manhardt	F	33	Raleigh, NC	31:59.7
27	Melissa Fehnel	F	28	Morrisville, NC	33:08.5
28	Q. Rodriguez	F	10	Wake Forest, NC	33:19.3
29	Noah Hartzell-Jordan	M	26	Raleigh, NC	34:15.1
30	Rebecca Zammiello	F	38	Raleigh, NC	35:10.1
31	Jenna Koenigshofer	F	41	Wake Forest, NC	35:36.1
32	Kaelyn Dausch	F	24	Raleigh, NC	36:19.2
33	Denise Marshall	F	56	Youngsville, NC	36:34.3
34	Chrissy Gonzalez	F	28	Cary, NC	36:53.5
35	Devin McFarlane	M	31	Cary, NC	36:53.6
36	Daniel Pope	M	30	Raleigh, NC	36:59.2
37	Michael Doyle	M	66	Edenton, NC	38:00.5
38	Gary Howard	M	73	Wendell, NC	39:24.5
39	Miranda Day	F	29	Clayton, NC	40:13.4
40	Ashley Amodei	F	28	Boone, NC	40:13.7
41	Philip Read	M	68	Wake Forest, NC	40:38.6
42	Katie Doyle	F	32	Wake Forest, NC	41:04.2
43	Lana Cooper	F	39	Louisburg, NC	41:58
44	Rasmi Bacon	F	45	Apex, NC	42:09.6
45	Bobbie Smythe	F	72	Wake Forest, NC	42:09.7
46	Sonia Hayward	F	45	Raleigh, NC	43:32.3
47	Geoff Hayward	M	41	Raleigh, NC	43:32.7
48	Paola Guadarrama	F	31	Cary, NC	45:07.4
49	Dennise Guerra	F	41	Raleigh, NC	45:07.5
50	Tyler Cameron	M	37	Wake Forest, NC	45:25.9