Pumpkin 5K Run Calhoun Civic Club

Pumpkin 5K Run Calhoun Civic Club is held in Calhoun on October 31, 2026 and organized by the Calhoun Civic Club. A single distance is scheduled: a 5K over 3.1 miles, starting at 8:30 a.m.

Civic club races are the kind of event you can enter the week before rather than train months for, and a 5K supports that. Three or four weeks of running three times a week will carry most people to the finish, while anyone already running regularly can treat it as a hard effort with two easy miles either side. Pacing is the whole skill at this distance. The temptation is to sprint the opening minute and then hang on for two miles, when a steady, even effort almost always produces a better time and a far better last mile.