Always Ready 5K

Name: Always Ready 5K
Start: 2025-10-11T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-11T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Harbor View Park

Schedule

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 09:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Harbor View Park | Cape May, NJ

The Cape May County Coast Guard Community Foundation is hosting the 4th annual Always Ready 5K on Saturday, October 11th, 2025. This unique community event also includes a K9 3K run/walk for our well behaved 4-legged friends and their humans brought to you by our Event Partner, Lead the Way Dog Training. After you finish your 5K or K9, adult participants can quench their thirst with an Always Ready Pale Ale on behalf of Cape May Brewing Co., our Event Partner in Beer. **ID Check will be required.
5K
This landmark event flows along the scenic Cape May Harbor through the gates of U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May - The Birthplace of the U.S. Coast Guard, which is a very rare opportunity, and back to Harborview Park.
This race event is Chip timed with instant results thanks to South Jersey Race Timing. Awards are presents to the following:
Top 3 M/F Overall: Age Groups:14 & under,15-19-, and 10-year AG up to 60+.
Race T-shirts are guaranteed to those registered by September 30 (limited supply after) and all finishers receive a commemorative Always Ready Challenge Coin.
ALWAYS READY K9 RACE
This 3K run/walk option is open to four-legged friends accompanied by 2 legged guides. Dogs must be leashed on no longer than a 6ft lead and able to maintain a calm disposition for the entirety of the event. The K9 race will start 5 minutes after the 5K. This race is brought to you by our partners at Lead the Way Dog Training. Each finisher will receive a Lead the Way Medal and an Always Ready K9 collar, harness or human pin.
VIRTUAL 5K
Virtual 5K runners will have the entire month of October to complete their best 5K time and will receive a bib, Always Ready T-shirt, and Challenge Coin. Virtual packets will not be mailed out until after the in-person race on 10/11.
COURSES
The 5K will start and finish at Harborview Park and will bring runners by Fishermans Memorial as they enter Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, the home of the Coast Guard enlisted corps and the Coast Guard's only enlisted accession point and Recruit Training Center. A nearly 1.5 mile tour of the Base will promise plenty of monumental views running along the harbor and a glimpse of the cutters at port. Course details are subject to change.
The K9 race will start 5 minutes after the 5K and follow the same route until runners reach the entrance to the base. K9 runners will not enter US Training Center Cape May but will instead turnaround near the gate and return back to Harborview Park.