Run In The New Year 5k/10K/Half Marathon

🎉 Welcome to SoCal's Healthiest Live Party!

It's SoCal's HEALTHIEST LIVE PARTY! LIVE BAND at the START/FINISH and the course! It's YOUR NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATION. WITH New Year's BLING!

📅 Event Details

• Date: Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025
• 8:00 am: Half Marathon Start
• 8:15 am: Kid's Dash
• 8:30 am: 5k/10K Mass Start

📦 Early Packet Pick-Up

• Date & Time: Saturday, December 27th, 11 am to 2 pm
• Location: Road Runner Sports in Newport Beach, 1835 Newport Blvd, Costa Mesa, CA 92627
• Note: Packet pick-up is optional. Packets can also be picked up on race day starting at 7 am in LOT 25. The gates to the STATE PARK open at 6 am.

💬 Run Into the New Year

Write a New Year resolution on the back of your bib and RUN, JOG, or WALK it into the new year.

🏃‍♀️ Race Course

The course is the flat and fast, paved, wide State Park path, watching and listening to the surf! Whether an avid runner, jogger, first-timer, or walker, we are something for every BODY & EVERYBODY best-themed race! Bring family and friends, or just yourself and shoes! Let's get 2024 off and RUNNING.

👕 Entry Includes

• Custom T-Shirt: A Run In The New Year CUSTOM 5K/10K T-Shirt
• Special Long Sleeve: A LONG SLEEVE DESIGN T-shirt for Half Marathon Finishers
• Finisher Medal: A huge CUSTOM CAST finisher medal for all!

🎊 Post-race Celebration

Make it a Post-race 5K/10K resolution party! Beach balls, New Year's Beanies, & party Champagne glasses will be for sale at the t-shirt table.

👕 Gear Check

GEAR CHECK is available, if needed, at the Caren Ware Events BOOTH. Put your bib number on a tag and pin it to your gear.

⏱️ Timing and Awards

Professionally CHIP timed event by ITZ ABOUT TIME with age division awards galore!

🏞️ Entrance to Bolsa Chica State Park

The event is in the farthest western lot - Lot 25, closest to Warner & PCH. Enter the park at: 17851 Pacific Coast Hwy.

• Cash Requirement: BRING $15 CASH (or a park pass) to make the gate line proceed quickly. Credit cards slow the process.
• Parking: FREE OR METERED PARKING is available behind the Jack and the Box (corner of Warner and PCH). DO NOT PARK in the shopping lot or at the gas station.

⏰ Race Day Schedule

• 6:00 am: Gates Open
• 7:00 am: Race Day Packet Pick-Up Begins (Lot 25)
• 7:30 am: Half Marathon Start (for those taking over 3 hours and 45 minutes)
• 8:00 am: Half Marathon Start (Must cross the starting arch by 8:05 am)
• 8:15 am: Kid’s Dash
• 8:30 am: 5K/10K Mass Start (Must cross the starting arch by 9:05 am)
• 9:00 am: 5K Awards Ceremony begins
• 9:30 am: 10K awards
• 9:50 am: Announcing overall Half Marathon awards
• 10:15 am: Half marathon age division winners can pick up division awards at the table or wait until the age division announcements.

🥞 Special Pancake Breakfast

Enjoy the famous KIWANIS pineapple/coconut pancakes at this EVENT!!! $5 pre-order: $6 on race morning. Coffee, fresh baked cookies, fresh-cut fruits, and street tacos will also be available. Bring extra money for ACAI BOWLS, fresh made at the Acai Republic booth.

🏅 Awards

There are "In It To Win It" age categories 3 deep with 5 year age spans ranging from 1-10 through 85 & over.

⛰️ Course Details

Flat and fast, or slow and easy, make it the pace you want it. The 5K/10K course runs along the beach bike path at Bolsa Chica, Huntington Beach State Beach. Families can bring strollers but agree to use at their own risk. The Half Marathon Course is perfect for PRs or training for your next marathon and consists of two loops of the 10K course with plenty of aid stations, entertainment, and is spectator friendly. Aid Station Every 1.5 Miles.

🚻 Restrooms

Restrooms on RACE DAY are located at each end of the parking lot: a set by Sea Legs (east) and a set near Warner Blvd on the west end of the parking lot.

🔗 More Information

For additional details and registration, visit Race Official Site.