2026 Albemarle CiderWorks 5k & 10k
Join us for another 5K or 10k run, taking place on Sunday August 30th 2026, starting at 9am! This run will take you all around our beautiful Ciderworks estate, hosted by Bishop Events.
Join us in celebrating comradery, community and promoting fitness. Whether you are visiting to support our runners or conquer our course, everyone is welcome. There will be race day registration.Participants will need to arrive approximately one hour before the race to register for the event. T-shirt sizes cannot be guaranteed for race day registers.
***Price will increase on race morning by $5 for each distance. To sign up prior to the race and for more information on the run please click HERE.
Race benefits Rikki’s Refuge. Our Mission is TO IMPROVE WELFARE OF ANIMALS AND THEIR PEOPLE – by positively, responsibly & humanely affecting both humans & animals through a multi species refuge for abused, abandoned & homeless animals; promoting speuter (spay/neuter), TNR and community cats; assisting the elderly and/or low income folks enabling them to keep their pets; teaching humane education, tolerance and acceptance for the handicapped (physically and/or mentally) of animals and humans; providing safe haven to native wildlife; maintaining biological diversity of native flora & fauna.
This mission is carried out by:
1) rescuing homeless, abandoned, abused and or injured domestic and farm animals, providing medical care (traditional, alternative and holistic), finding suitable homes for adoption, and for many (the handicapped, the elderly, the unsocial, those displaced due to the death, incapacitation or displacement of their human companion) providing permanent shelter, care, love and compassion;
2) promoting zero pet population growth through education and low-cost or free spay/neuter in an attempt to reduce the number of homeless animals, which often end up in animal shelters;
3) promoting awareness of the animal kingdom through educational programs that teach compassion, for we firmly believe one who learns to feel compassion toward any living creature makes the world a more compassionate, caring and peaceful planet; our programs are designed for children, the elderly, the homeless and the handicapped;
4) providing a site for safe release and the future home of rehabilitated native Virginia wildlife;
5) maintaining 350 acres of pristine natural woodlands where native Virginia wildlife may always roam free of human intervention.
