Sight in Motion / Protect Your Eyes
Diabetes
Awareness
Sunset Run
Run it or walk it. One island, moving together as the sun goes down. Every family, every age, every pace.
Run it./Walk it./Wheel it.
Please browse and learn more about the upcoming race.
Register a group of five and one entry is free. Free community health screening on event night, open to everyone. Free shirt to the first 100 registered.
- Organized by
- Reef Pursuit International Inc.
- Beneficiaries
- Guam Diabetes Association and Famagu’on Fishing Camp: Future Generation Anglers
- Health screening
- Guam Diabetes Association and volunteer nurses
See where registration and donation money goes on the Impact page.
~1 in 5Guam adults are estimated to be living with diabetes, diagnosed or not (IDF Diabetes Atlas, 2025). Guam’s own health survey counts about 1 in 8 adults as diagnosed.
This is not a distant cause. It is the island.
Depending on how it is counted, between 1 in 8 and 1 in 5 Guam adults are living with diabetes, and the rate has climbed for over a decade. People here die from diabetes at a rate about 78 percent higher than the US mainland, and Chamorro families carry more of the burden. Nearly every family has felt it.
The 2026 run puts eyes at the center. Diabetes is a leading cause of vision loss, and much of it is preventable when it is caught early. Sight in Motion is about moving your body and protecting your vision, together.
Sources: Guam Community Health Assessment and BRFSS; University of Guam research; International Diabetes Federation. Full data and citations on our Diabetes in Guam page.
The run started with one man.
We run it because of Carl.
Carl T. Calvo Bordallo Butler was a Vietnam veteran who helped build the Guam Diabetes Association and led it as president for 20 years. He ran the island’s Diabetes Awareness 5K for 14 years.
The run went dormant for close to a decade. In 2023 the community brought it back, and the legacy of what Carl built kept going. We met his wife, Miss Winnie, and made the mission ours to carry.
One journey. One island. One purpose. Stronger together.
Run it.
Walk it.
Wheel it.
The 2K and the 5K are both run or walk. Bring the manåmko, bring the kids, bring the stroller and the wheelchair. This is not a race you have to be fast for. It is the island showing up together, as the sun goes down.
Run or Walk
The shorter, welcoming distance. Families, first-timers, and manåmko. No pressure, just move.
Run or Walk
Go for a time or take it easy. Awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd across Youth, Open, Master and Manåmko divisions.
Every age, every pace, every body
This is a run, walk, and wheel event, for every age and pace. The route is flat and wheelchair accessible. “Run, walk, or wheel,” the way this run has always been.
Bring the family. Register a group of five, one entry is free.
Diabetes touches whole families, so this run is built for whole families. Groups that sign up together get one entry on the house.
Free event shirt to the first 100 registered · grand prize drawing on the night. $20 in advance, $25 on race day. Buy four entries and the fifth is free.
The heart of the mission
Free health screening. Bring the whole family.
Guam has one of the highest diabetes rates in the country, and many people do not know they have it. That is what an awareness run is really for. On event night there is free community health screening provided by Guam Diabetes Association and its volunteer nurses, open to everyone, runner or not.
- Free for every participant and every spectator. You do not have to run to get screened.
- Quick and private. Know your numbers, talk to someone, take the first step.
- Bring your parents, bring your kids. Early is everything with diabetes.
A quiet first step. Free community health screening provided by Guam Diabetes Association and volunteer nurses, open to everyone, runner or not.
Where your support goes.
Run 4 Awareness Guam is organized by Reef Pursuit International Inc. The event supports Guam Diabetes Association and Famagu’on Fishing Camp: Future Generation Anglers. Free community health screening is provided by Guam Diabetes Association and volunteer nurses.
Registration and donation details will link to the receiving organization when finalized. The proceeds allocation and donation receipt language will be posted after final confirmation. A race registration fee is not a charitable donation.
Run for awareness. Move with purpose.
Four ways to be part of it.
Pick your lane. Each one takes about two minutes.
Register
Run, walk or wheel the 2K or 5K. Register a group of five and one entry is free.
Sign up → 02Sponsor
From $250 Supporter to Presenting. Logo, booth, complimentary bibs, real visibility.
See levels → 03Donate
Support youth programs and diabetes education. Separate from race entry.
Give → 04Volunteer
Course marshals, water stations, packet pickup, setup and teardown.
Help out →More than a race, all year.
Diabetes resources
Plain-language, locally sourced pages on diabetes in Guam, eye health, and preventing type 2.
Read →Healthy living and recipes
Balanced-plate meals built on the Diabetes Plate, a 7-day plan, and how to move more.
Read →Welcome to Guam
A practical newcomer and PCS guide for service members, military families, and anyone new to the island.
Read →Guam running, walking, news and stories
The island running calendar, plus updates from the run.
Read →A Guam tradition since 1999.
The Diabetes Awareness Run has been part of this island for a long time. The theme changes. The mission does not. Run 4 Awareness Guam carries it forward, and keeps the whole record in one place.
The Guam Diabetes Association ran it for 14 years, always “Run, Walk, or Wheel.” Carl Butler was at the front of it. The vault →
Brought back by the community after nearly a decade quiet. The legacy of Carl’s run continued. 2023 →
2024 grew the run. Then 2025 took a year off. The community brought it back for 2026. 2024 →
“Sight in Motion.” A sunset start at Chamoru Village, with eye health and island youth at the center.