Sims Vickers Memorial Let It Shine - Columbus

Sims Vickers Memorial Let It Shine is held in Columbus, Georgia, on October 24, 2026. One distance is on the program, a 5K run/walk that starts at 8 a.m.

A single early 5K keeps the day simple, and 3.1 miles is short enough to be worth racing properly rather than jogging through. The classic mistake is the first quarter mile, where adrenaline and a crowded start line push almost everyone twenty or thirty seconds per mile too fast, and the debt gets paid in the third mile. Pick a pace you could hold for twenty minutes, settle into it by the first corner, and hang on. Six weeks of three or four runs a week, one with hard repetitions of two to three minutes, is enough for a result you will be pleased with.