Cupid's Chase 5K Westfield

Cupid's Chase 5K Westfield is held in Westfield, New Jersey, on February 13, 2027. There is one distance on the program, a 5K (3.1 miles), going off at 10:00 AM.

Two things separate a good 5K from a painful one, and neither is fitness. The first is the warm-up: ten minutes of easy jogging and three or four short accelerations, finished a few minutes before the start. The second is the opening quarter mile, which almost always goes too fast because everyone around you is doing the same. Get both right and the last mile becomes something you can push rather than endure. As for training, four weeks of regular running with one weekly workout at race effort is a sound base, and beginners can build to the distance on three easy runs a week.