Around the World Run

Around the World Run in Fayetteville, North Carolina, offers in-person and virtual options as part of the 47th International Folk Festival. Distances include a timed 5K in-person race, plus 5K and 10K virtual events. The course starts at the Cape Fear Botanical Garden and weaves along roads, the Cross Creek Linear Park Trail, and the Cape Fear River Trail, with 8–10 foot-wide paths, a few wooden bridges, and scenic views of trees, plants, and the river.

In-person participants receive a shirt if registered by the cutoff; virtual runners can have shirts mailed or picked up. Proceeds support the Friends of Civil Affairs Scholarship Fund for spouses and children. Virtual results can be submitted Sept 6–18. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.