Florida Five

Florida Five is a five-day running event in Apopka, in central Florida, held February 18-22, 2027. Each day at 7:00 a.m. you can choose a 50K (31 miles), a marathon (26.2 miles), a half marathon (13.1 miles), a 10K or a 5K, and each day is staged in a different park. Courses are flat and looped, using paved urban trails or shaded park paths. The event is deliberately low-key and accessible, an aid station provides refreshments, finishers of each race receive a medal, and anyone who completes all five days earns an additional medal.

Repeating a distance on consecutive days is a different skill from racing one hard, so treat it as an exercise in pacing and recovery rather than a time trial. Many runners mix the distances, taking a shorter day between longer ones. The flat loops and relaxed format also make this a workable place to attempt a first marathon or first 50K, with a long-run-focused build of 16 weeks behind you.