A Salute to Our Veterans Viva Mobility 5K

A Salute to Our Veterans Viva Mobility 5K takes place in San Antonio, Texas, on November 7, 2026. The program is a single 5K (3.1 miles), starting at 8:30 a.m. That is a comfortable time to organize a morning around: a light breakfast around 7, a fifteen-minute jog beforehand and you are back before the day has properly started.

For a race this short, the useful work happens in the weeks before rather than on the day. Running three or four times a week for a month gets almost anyone to the finish, and adding one session of faster repetitions weekly is what turns a completed 5K into a fast one. On race morning, resist the pull of the crowd in the first quarter mile. Runners who go out at a pace they cannot sustain end up walking the third mile, which costs far more time than a conservative start ever does.