Good Life Race

Good Life Race takes place at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois, on April 25, 2027. The program is flat and fast on the road: a 5K at 9:00 a.m., a Youth Mile at 8:30 a.m. and a Junior Dash of about 0.1 mile at 10:00 a.m. The 5K and Youth Mile courses are both USATF-certified, and every finisher in those two races receives a tri-blend t-shirt.

A certified, flat 5K is the right place to go after a time, so treat it as a goal race rather than a training run: sharpen with one weekly interval session over three or four weeks, then run the first mile a few seconds slower than target and close hard. Families have somewhere to go too, with the Youth Mile and the Junior Dash spread either side of the main event.