Overview The YMCA 5K in Memory of Marcie Mazzola is a Huntington community race that honors the memory of Marcie Mazzola through the annual YMCA 5K Series. It’s part of a multi-location series across YMCA branches, which gives it a little more infrastructure and organization than a typical standalone charity 5K. The race starts from…
Overview Run for Caumsett takes place inside Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve in Lloyd Harbor, one of the most scenic and undervisited parks on Long Island’s North Shore. The park sits on a protected stretch of the Lloyd Neck peninsula and covers over 1,520 acres of fields, forests, and coastline. Running here feels different from…
Overview The New York Harbor Oyster Classic is in its 10th year, and it’s one of those races with a genuinely distinctive setup: a 5K on Governors Island, accessible only by ferry, with the Manhattan skyline and New York Harbor as your backdrop. Governors Island is car-free, scenic, and completely different from any road race…
Overview Mind Over Matter is a community 5K staged at GEM Fitness in Oakdale, raising money for Alzheimer’s programs and research through Fit For Life. The name is fitting: it’s a race built around mental and physical wellbeing, timed to the spring and designed around participation rather than competition. The 1 Mile untimed option makes…
Overview The OMAC May Day 5K takes place at Main Beach in East Hampton, one of the more scenic race settings you’ll find on Long Island. Main Beach is a wide open Atlantic-facing beach, and a morning 5K there in early May has a certain quality to it — the season hasn’t started yet, the…
Overview Chasing the Rainbows Bursting Bubble 5K is held at Heckscher State Park in East Islip, organized by Chasing the Rainbows, a nonprofit supporting families grieving infertility, pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and infant loss. If you know anyone who has walked that road, you understand why an event like this exists. It’s a space to show…
The Run for Hope is a celebration of the life of Hope Reichbach, a Brooklyn-born activist and civic leader who passed away in 2011 after working tirelessly for her community. Before she died, she worked on the campaign and in the office of Council Member Stephen Levin, pushing hard to make Brooklyn a better place…
Milo’s 5K for the Homeless is a community 5K at Belmont Lake State Park benefiting the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless. It’s a casual, welcoming event with a good cause behind it, and it’s one of the more dog-friendly races you’ll find on Long Island. If you’ve been looking for an excuse to bring…
The EJ Autism 4 Mile is now in its 21st year and it’s one of the most established community races on Long Island. It honors Eric and Jack, sons of the race’s founders, both diagnosed with autism, and the EJ Autism Foundation uses the event to raise money for programs and schools that support kids…
The Footsteps for Progress 5K Color Bash is the annual run/walk for Queens Centers for Progress, a nonprofit that provides services and support to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Queens. It’s a color run, which means you’ll get hit with color powder at stations along the course. If you want to…