Wegmans East Avenue Grocery Run
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Wegmans East Avenue Grocery Run, November 7, 2026
The Wegmans East Avenue Grocery Run offers in-person and virtual running and walking options to benefit Rochester-area food pantries. Registration fees support local organizations that provide food and related services. The 2025 Grocery Run raised more than $110,000 for Rochester-area food pantries.
The event includes multiple distances and a family dash for young children. Virtual participants may choose any distance to run, bike, walk, or stroll and complete their event by race day.
- 1K run or walk
- 5K run or walk
- 10K run
- virtual 5K option
The in-person 5K and 10K follow a fast, flat urban route along East Avenue, past Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, across the promenade to the Genesee Riverway Trail, past the ROC City Skate Park, and to the Genesee Gateway Park with views of the Genesee River and Downtown Rochester. The 10K continues through the University of Rochester campus and across a pedestrian bridge to return on the opposite riverbank. The 1K follows scenic East Avenue.
Awards include cash prizes for top overall and masters finishers and age group awards in five year brackets. Cash prize eligibility requires completing the 5K in 22 minutes or the 10K in 44 minutes. Register by midnight on October 6 to receive a preferred size performance-fabric race T-shirt; ladies' shirts run one to two sizes small. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.