VIRTUAL OPTION:Upload your times & photos at thevirtualrunseries.com!IN-PERSON OPTION/S:
April 19 7:30AM MST / Tucson, AZDistance / Movement: 5km run/ walk, and YogaLocation: Meet at Ramada #2, Arthur Park Regional ParkAddress: 9101 N Thornydale Road, Tucson, Arizona 85742After the run/ walk we'll regroup for refreshments. People are welcome to stay for a 45-minute, gratitude-centered yoga practice.
April 19 12PM MST / Crow Agency, MTDistance: 3 MilesLocation: Gascap, Crow Agency, MT Sponsored and Led By: Indigenous Trail and Arc'teryx
April 26 8AM EDT / Harrisonburg, VARun Leads: Rising Hearts + Shenandoah Valley Bicycle CoalitionLocation: Arboretum1-5 miles4pm | CANARY film screening at Sage Bird Ciderworks ($300 food/non-alcoholic drink tab)
Virtual 5k Price: $20 (general)Plogging Individual Challenge: $25 (run/walk, pick up trash while doing it)
+ Options to only Donate+ Create your own virtual team+ Host your own group / community run/walk (Create a Virtual Team as well for participants to join you)+ Add the Indigenous lands you're on to your BIB+ Registration isn't required, you can download our digital bib too!
Take the Plogging Challenge:Rising Hearts is continuously inspired by community. And a fellow friend and community member is making running and picking up trash, a fashionable and fun thing to do as we care for the lands and community. Tina Muir, hosts the Running For Real Podcast and believes running is a vehicle for social change, co-author of Becoming a Sustainable Runner, and environmental and sustainability advocate, has made "plogging" a fun community act in caring for the environment. Let's do our part, whether big or small, to leave the lands and environment in a better place for the next generations!
Incentive Specifics for Personal Challenge:+ When you participate in the Personal Challenge, this is for individuals running, walking, biking, being outside, and collecting trash while doing it. Submit your photos to elitefeats and email: [email protected] with your photos, First, Last Name, Mailing Address, and shoe size
What is Plogging? Plogging is a combination of jogging with picking up litter, merging the Swedish verbs plocka upp (pick up) and jogga (jog) gives the new Swedish verb plogga, from which the word plogging derives.
We invite you to take the challenge to go plogging, collect as much waste as you can, take a photo and submit via Elitefeats, tag @rising_hearts on IG, and you can email it at [email protected] as well.
Registration Incentives:
+ If you join the RISING HEARTS virtual team with an additional donation of $50 or more, 4 will be selected to win a free-pair of running shoes + a copy of “Becoming a Sustainable Runner" or Fresh Banana Leaves" or "Go Gently" of your choice
+ If you just register, 4 of you may win a Rising Hearts new 2026 t-shirt and stickers!
+ If you take the Personal Challenge, send photos to elitefeats and Rising Hearts, whoever has the most trash, 2 of you will win shoes!
"Running is medicine. Running is tradition. Running is healing. Running is prayer. Running is community. Indigenous people are known for running – for the messages they carry – for the prayers they carry – for the tradition it brings. We run together as relatives, as a community, to recognize and celebrate Indigenous people! To acknowledge the past and what Native people have had to experience to be here today. We celebrate the present existence of Indigenous people and all the good medicine we bring to our relatives and to the lands. As we look ahead – we have the opportunity to dismantle current systems of oppression and racism and rebuild a better and visible future! Our relatives across Turtle Island (North America) are sharing so much of their hard work to support their communities and build a future for our next generations. This virtual race is to bring and call people in – to support Indigenous People, uplift the real history and stories, their strength, and their resilience – because we are still here! We are thriving.” – Jordan Marie Daniel
Ways to take action and participate for Earth Day:
+ Take individual action and action with community on Earth Day 2026: earthday.org/action
Total may vary, based on additional options, such as donations.
*Includes processing fee
EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATE!
NEW: Even at the in-person meet ups, you will have an opportunity to log your time online and post up to 5 photos!
Upload your time/photos 4/19-4/26
Run/walk, pick up trash while doing it
Distance / Movement: 5km run/ walk, and YogaLocation: Meet at Ramada #2, Arthur Park Regional ParkAddress: 9101 N Thornydale Road, Tucson, Arizona 85742After the run/ walk we'll regroup for refreshments. People are welcome to stay for a 45-minute, gratitude-centered yoga practice.
Distance: 3 MilesLocation: Gascap, Crow Agency, MT Sponsored and Led By: Indigenous Trail and Arc'teryx
Location: Arboretum1-5 milesRun Leads: Rising Hearts + Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition4pm | CANARY film screening at Sage Bird Ciderworks ($300 food/non-alcoholic drink tab)
UNCHECK to select a run/virtual option.
You are NOT registering a participant or family member - this is a donation to support a runner in need. The event team will issue a coupon code/s to a runner/s in need - Thank you!
Are you a runner in need? Please email: [email protected]
This is a donation - you are not sponsoring your own personal family member but instead being a good relative by donating to someone in need!
I do not want to register.This is a donation - you are not sponsoring your own personal family member but instead being a good relative by donating to someone in need!
Items will not be shipped internationally.You can still participate and post your times/photos!
You may be eligible to win a pair of shoes if you:+ Selected Individual Plogging Challenge+ Join virtual team Rising Hearts with an additional donation of $50 or more.+ Register with an additional donation of any amount.
Acknowledge the Indigenous Lands you will run on by having it placed on your run bib. Unfortunately if you live abroad bibs are not shipped outside the United States/Turtle Island.
RESOURCES TO USE TO FIND THE INDIGENOUS LANDS YOU ARE ON:
A. Download the NativeLand App - this is a great resource.
B. Visit https://native-land.ca/
Would you like to join or create a team?
Earth Day
Bundle of 5 Stickers3" x 2" Matte
Rising Hearts
Bundle of 5 Stickers3" Matte
Rising Hearts (Small)
Bundle of 5 Stickers1.5" Matte
Running for Justice
Running on Native Lands (Tan)
Be A Good Relative
ALL FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE
