The Butterfly 5K is one of those races that hits you a little differently before you even get to the start line. It’s run in memory of Daniela Marie Conte, an 8-year-old who spent four years fighting a rare pediatric cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma before passing away in March 2020. The Daniela Conte Foundation she left…
Run With the Rams is a school community 5K and 1-Mile event hosted by Clarke MS/HS in Westbury. It’s a family-friendly race that draws students, faculty, and members of the wider East Meadow School District community, with proceeds split between supporting a Clarke community member or family in need and Clarke Athletics. It’s the kind…
Overview The Total Empower 5K is a community wellness race at Cedar Creek Park in Seaford, presented by Total Physical Therapy, Total Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, and Total Wellness — three organizations whose whole business is helping people move better and recover stronger. The event reflects that philosophy: it’s explicitly inclusive, framed around personal progress…
Overview The Farmingdale Ram Run is organized by Farmingdale State College’s Health, Wellness, and Nutrition Club and benefits the FSC Alumni Association. It’s a campus race with a genuine community feel — students, alumni, faculty, staff, and local runners all mix together on a USATF certified course that winds around the FSC campus. The event…
Overview The Patchogue Family YMCA 5K is the opening leg of the YMCA of Long Island 5K Series, a multi-race series that also stops in Huntington, Glen Cove, Bay Shore, and East Hampton. It runs at Shorefront Park in Patchogue — a waterfront park on the Great South Bay with a genuinely nice setting for…
Overview The 7 Line 7K is the New York Mets fan community’s race, and it wears that identity confidently. Organized by The 7 Line — the Mets-centric brand and fan group — and presented by Metropolitan Park, the course runs a scenic 7K through Flushing Meadows Corona Park, passing around the footprint of the old…
Overview The Long Island Run Club Clash is exactly what it sounds like — a 5K where local run clubs show up to compete against each other for bragging rights, prize money, and the People’s Choice crown. Presented by Stoked Athletics and Runners Edge and hosted at Sand City South Brewing in Lindenhurst, this one…
Overview The Tesla Owners NYS Charity Run/Walk 5K is organized by the Tesla Owners New York State club and benefits Island Harvest, Long Island’s largest food bank, and EAC (Empower, Assist and Care), a social services organization serving Long Island communities. It’s a newer addition to the spring race calendar with an unusual origin —…
Overview The Walk for Resilience 5K is a community mental health event at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, hosted by Carmel’s Depression and Anxiety Wellness Foundation (CDAWF). The whole event is built around normalizing conversations about mental health while getting people moving together. It’s designed to be inclusive and low-pressure — you can walk, jog, or…
Overview T-Mac’s Run is a memorial 5K and walk at Baldwin Harbor Park organized in honor of Tyler McKenzie, who passed away in 2022 at 28 after a years-long battle with translocation renal cell carcinoma, a rare form of kidney cancer. Tyler grew up on Long Island, attended Syracuse University, and worked for the Brooklyn…