run with us to help Reforest the Bluegrass!

John’s Bluegrass Racing Company, ASICS, and Lexington’s Division of Environmental Services are excited to present the Reforest Frenzy 5K, 10K, and 1-Mile Dash at Hisle Farm Park. Race proceeds will help raise money to purchase trees for this year’s Reforest the Bluegrass in April. With your help, we hope to plant hundreds of trees after the race at home and thousands more during Reforest the Bluegrass.

All race participants will get race prizes, including the option to take a tree to plant at home after their run or walk. Participants can also choose to have their tree planted on their behalf at a 2025 Reforest the Bluegrass event. 

Sustainability

Reforest the Bluegrass is an annual event at which volunteers of all ages get together for a fun day of tree planting that leaves a lasting positive imprint on our Commonwealth. Since 1999, Reforest the Bluegrass has enabled more than 18,000 volunteers to plant 215,000 tree seedlings across Central Kentucky. Learn more here.

John’s Run/Walk Shop is committed to helping protect the ground we run and walk on and the air we breathe. In addition to putting on the Reforest Frenzy, we engage in local sustainability efforts in many other ways. We are a Green Check-certified business. We offer our stores as drop-off points for the City of Lexington to collect yard signs and holiday lights for recycling, and we take used shoes to refurbish or recycle through Sneaker Impact.

We’re excited to partner with ASICS for this race, as they work toward a net-zero 2050 target. ASICS has set several targets and actions, involving the increased use of renewable energy and overall reduction in energy use in their operations.

Your Reforest Frenzy T-shirt will come from Recover Brands. This apparel company uses 100% recycled or organic materials in all their products. They also use a HyperLocal supply chain with everything they make being entirely designed, recycled, knit, cut, sewn, made, and customized within a few-mile radius of local communities in Central America and the U.S. Southeast.

Bring your old running shoes to the Reforest Frenzy. We’ll be collecting shoes for Sneaker Impact so that your participation in this event can have an even greater positive impact on our environment.

Due to the charitable nature of the Reforest 5K, we do not chip-time this race. This allows us to increase our donation to Reforest the Bluegrass. Participants will receive a result, hand-timed by the John's Bluegrass Racing Company team.