Fredonia Trick or Trot 5k

Fredonia Trick or Trot 5k is run in Fredonia, New York, on October 31, 2026. There is one distance, a 5K covering 3.1 miles, with the start at 10:00 a.m., late enough that you can travel in on the morning rather than the night before.

Three miles is short enough to race off almost any base, but the gap between finishing and finishing fast comes down to a handful of sessions. Once a week for a month, run six to eight repetitions of 90 seconds at an effort you could not sustain much longer, jogging two minutes in between, and keep every other run easy. On the day, warm up for at least ten minutes: a 5K is largely decided in the opening half-mile, and cold legs lose that half-mile every time.