Rom'n Rivers 15K

Rom'n Rivers 15K is run in Rome, Georgia, on November 7, 2026. The 15K, about 9.3 miles, starts at 8:00 a.m., and the 5K follows half an hour later at 8:30 a.m., so the two fields never share the road for long.

The 15K is a distance worth seeking out. It is long enough to force real pacing and fueling decisions but short enough to recover from within a week, which makes it an excellent checkpoint eight to ten weeks out from a half marathon. Run the first three miles at a pace that feels almost too easy, then hold it. Preparation looks like a half-marathon build in miniature: eight weeks, four runs a week, a long run reaching eleven miles and one weekly tempo of three to four miles.