Carrera de las Catrinas

Carrera de las Catrinas is held in Round Lake Park, Illinois, on November 1, 2026. The program is a single 5K, and it starts at 9 a.m. on the Day of the Dead weekend.

One distance, one start time and a 3.1-mile course make for about as simple a race morning as you can get, which is part of the appeal if you are new to bibs and timing chips and would rather not think about logistics. Runners with more experience can treat it as a speed benchmark heading into winter, since a 5K time is the quickest way to check whether recent training has actually made you faster. Either way, arrive early enough for ten minutes of easy jogging before the start rather than using the first mile as your warm-up.