Nightmare on Cage Blvd. 5K

Nightmare on Cage Blvd. 5K is run in Pharr, Texas, on October 24, 2026. There is one distance, a 5K, and it starts late: 7:30 p.m., which makes this an evening race rather than the usual weekend-morning affair.

An evening start asks for a few adjustments to your routine. Eat your last real meal three or four hours out, keep the day itself easy, and warm up for longer than you would before a morning race, since you will have spent most of the day sitting. The distance is short enough to race off relatively little training: three runs a week for six weeks, one of them with four to six hard 400-meter repeats, puts most runners in a position to finish strong. First-timers should resist going out fast, because the buzz of a late start usually costs people the third mile.