River & Bay 5K

River & Bay 5K is held in Gloucester Point, Virginia, on October 31, 2026. A one-mile fun run starts at 9:00 a.m., and at 9:30 a.m. the 5K goes off in two categories over the same 3.1 miles: a running race and a separately scored race walk.

A dedicated race-walk category is unusual and worth knowing about if walking is your discipline, since you are measured against other walkers rather than trailing a running field. For runners, this is the classic short race: four to six weeks of one weekly interval session will sharpen you, and the distance is easy enough to recover from that it fits into any longer autumn plan. The mile half an hour earlier works either as a family option or as a hard opener before the main event.