Fire & Ice Holiday 5k

Fire & Ice Holiday 5k takes place in Yorktown, Indiana on December 12, 2026, with the Fire and Ice 5k starting at 9:00 a.m. It's a single-distance morning event covering 5 kilometers, or 3.1 miles, which keeps things simple whether you're racing it or using it as a hard training run in the middle of a winter block.

Indiana in mid-December means running in the cold, so plan the warm-up as carefully as the race itself and keep something warm to change into afterward. The 5K is the most repeatable racing distance there is: you can run one every few weeks without disrupting a bigger plan, and it gives an honest reading of current fitness. For a target time, spend four to six weeks doing one weekly workout of intervals at slightly faster than goal pace, with a longer easy run at the weekend and nothing hard in the two days before the race.