Jacob Butze Memorial Run - Oxford, OH

Jacob Butze Memorial Run - Oxford, OH is on October 24, 2026 in Oxford, Ohio, with a single 5K race starting at 10:00 a.m. A late-morning start is generous by road-racing standards, and the memorial framing tends to bring out a community field: friends, families and local runners entering together rather than a purely competitive line-up.

That 10:00 a.m. start is worth using well — eat breakfast at least two hours out, get 15 minutes of easy jogging in beforehand, and you will feel far better through the opening mile than the runners who roll straight out of the car. For training, a 5K needs consistency more than volume: three or four runs a week over a month, one of them with faster intervals, is enough.