Zedikiah Scholarship 5K

Zedikiah Scholarship 5K is run in Denver, Colorado, on October 24, 2026. There is one distance on the program, a 5K (3.1 miles), and it starts at 8:00 a.m. With a single wave and a single format, the morning is straightforward: arrive early enough to pick up your bib, warm up, and be on the line for the start.

Denver sits at altitude, and that is the one thing to plan around if you are traveling in. Thinner air costs you a few seconds per mile at 5K effort even when you are fit, so run by feel for the first half rather than chasing a flat-land split. Local runners can treat the race as a hard tempo test inside a longer fall block. Whatever your goal, a 5K responds well to a short specific build: two quality sessions a week, one of them at goal pace, over four to six weeks is plenty.