Brooke's Tata Trot 5k

Brooke's Tata Trot 5k is held in Augusta, Wisconsin, on October 24, 2026. It is a one-distance event, a 5K (3.1 miles) starting at 8:00 a.m., which keeps the morning simple whether you are racing it or covering it at an easy pace with friends.

Late October in western Wisconsin usually means genuinely cold air at 8:00 a.m., and that is worth planning for. Warm up longer than you would in summer, keep a jacket on until a few minutes before the start, and use gloves you can stuff in a pocket. Cold conditions are actually fast once you are moving, which makes a small-field local 5K a good place to attempt a personal best. If you are building toward it from scratch, four weeks of three runs a week gets most beginners to the finish, and adding one weekly session of short, fast repetitions is what turns finishing into racing.