Gingerbread Lane 5K & 10K - Shreveport

Gingerbread Lane 5K & 10K - Shreveport takes place in Bossier, Louisiana, on December 20, 2026. The kids dash leads off at 8:55 a.m., and the 1 mile, the 5K (3.1 miles) and the 10K (6.2 miles) all follow at 9:00 a.m. Four formats on one morning means the whole household can enter something, from a first mile to a 10K that takes most runners under an hour.

When several distances share a start, the opening quarter mile always goes out too fast, so decide your pace beforehand and stick to it while the mile runners disappear ahead. For the 10K, a build of six to eight weeks with four runs a week, one of them a long run of six to eight miles, is ample. For the 5K, half that will do, provided one run each week is faster than easy.