Dogtown Chilly 5K

Dogtown Chilly 5K is held in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on November 7, 2026. The program is built around a single road distance, a 5K (3.1 miles), with the start set for 9 a.m. That later gun time leaves room to travel in the same morning, warm up properly and still be back home well before midday.

Early November is a friendly moment for a 5K: the summer heat is gone, and most runners are carrying fitness built through the fall. If this would be your first race at the distance, four to six weeks of easy running three times a week is enough to get you to the finish comfortably. If you are chasing a personal best, add one weekly session of short repetitions at goal pace, hold back over the opening half mile, and accept that the closing stretch is supposed to hurt.