5K & Family Health Day for Maternal Health Awareness

5K & Family Health Day for Maternal Health Awareness takes place in Savannah, Georgia, on March 13, 2027. The running format is a single 5K starting at 9:00 AM, held alongside a family health day built around maternal health awareness, so the morning is as much a community gathering as a race.

Events framed this way draw a wide field — strollers, walkers, first-timers and a handful of quick local runners — and that is worth factoring into your plan. Seed yourself honestly at the start and the first half mile stays clear. For a first 5K, a month of running three times a week is plenty, and mixing running with walking is a perfectly good strategy. If you are using the race as a hard effort instead, warm up away from the start area, then run the second half of the course faster than the first.