Be the Buffalo Memorial Run for Digits and Needle

Be the Buffalo Memorial Run for Digits and Needle is held in Lexington, South Carolina, on February 6, 2027. The event is a single 5K run (3.1 miles) starting at 8:30 a.m., held as a memorial in honor of the two people its name remembers.

Memorial races tend to draw a mixed field — friends and family walking alongside runners chasing a time — and that suits the 5K format better than any other distance. Nobody is out there long enough for the pace difference to matter. If you want a result you can compare later, the standard approach works: warm up for ten minutes, start a shade slower than feels right, and pick it up once you have found your rhythm around the first mile. If you are there to take part, an 8:30 a.m. start still leaves most of a Saturday intact.