Women Xpanding Limits: 1-Miler & 5K

Women Xpanding Limits: 1-Miler & 5K is held in Hilliard, Ohio, on October 24, 2026. The one-mile race starts at 9:00 a.m. and the 5K (3.1 miles) follows 15 minutes later at 9:15 a.m.

A mile and a 5K on the same schedule is a useful pairing: the mile tells you about your raw speed, the 5K about how long you can hold it. If you pick just one, the mile is the more honest test of pace and takes very little preparation — a few weeks of strides and short repeats will do. For the 5K, build over six weeks with one threshold run and one interval session a week. Either distance works as a first race; both are short enough that finishing is never really in doubt once you have been running consistently.