Holiday on the Bay 5K and Kids Dash

Holiday on the Bay 5K and Kids Dash is held in Everett, Washington, on December 6, 2026, with the 5K listed at 9:00 a.m. and a children's dash sharing the morning, as the name indicates. The event is tied to the city's waterfront, which shapes both the setting and the way the run feels underfoot, since bayside routes are typically flat and open.

Flat and open cuts both ways. There are no hills to slow you down, so a 5K here is a fair place to look for a personal best, but wind off the water can make one direction noticeably harder than the other. Run by effort rather than by watch on the exposed stretches and let the sheltered sections bring your pace back. A month of three runs a week, one of them with a few faster minutes in the middle, is enough preparation to race the distance properly.