Kimball Elementary 5k

Kimball Elementary 5k takes place on October 24, 2026 in Washington, D.C., with the Cheetah Race 5K starting at 8:00 a.m. It is a school event with one distance, so the entry decision is made for you. School 5Ks like this one draw families, staff and neighborhood runners, which usually means a supportive start line and a finish area busier than the size of the field would suggest.

If you are running your first 5K, a school race is a low-pressure place to do it: nobody is checking your splits and the distance is short enough to walk part of if you need to. Runners with more experience can treat it as a controlled hard effort — 20 to 25 minutes at threshold — dropped into an otherwise normal training week.