Queens NYC Chiller Half • 10K • 5K

Queens NYC Chiller Half • 10K • 5K takes place in New York, New York, on December 27, 2026, in Queens. The half marathon (13.1 miles), the 10K and the 5K all start at 9:30 a.m., a later gun than most winter road races and an easy one to plan a morning around. Three distances on the same clock means a group can enter separately and still regroup at the finish.

A 9:30 start is genuinely useful in late December: you can eat a normal breakfast, cross the city and still warm up properly, which is hard to manage when the gun is at 7:00. Use the half as an end-of-year benchmark rather than a peak effort, since the fitness you carry into January matters more than the time. If 13.1 miles would be your first, ten to twelve weeks with one long run a week is the build; the 10K is the better call if a spring marathon block is already underway.