Start the New Year off on the right foot! Murfreesboro's New Year's Day 5k is a family-friendly event. This Better Boro Project sanctioned event will be electronically-timed, and every finisher will receive a medal. There are awards for overall winners as well as age group winners in the male and female categories.
REGISTRATION
$30 per person, includes a festive long sleeve t-shirt (***REGISTER by DEC 8 to guarantee your shirt size...shirts have to be ordered, printed and delivered.)
PACKET PICKUP
Avoid the lines on race day! You will receive your race bib number with safety pins and your t-shirt in your packet. You may send a friend or relative to pick up your packet; they must have a note or text from you giving them permission.
Tuesday, December 29, 2026
Patterson Park Community Center
521 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Wednesday, December 30, 2026
Patterson Park Community Center
521 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday, December 31, 2026
Patterson Park Community Center
521 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
7 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Friday, January 1, 2027 (New Year's Day!)
Barfield Crescent Park (Ballfields Concession stand)
697 Veterans Parkway
Murfreesboro, TN 37128
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. ONLY
Jan 01, 2027
Distance — 5K
Type — Running
10:00
$30.00
These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for January in Murfreesboro.
Learn more about the host city, Murfreesboro.
Murfreesboro is a city in the Nashville metropolitan area of Middle Tennessee. It is the largest suburb of Nashville and the sixth largest city in Tennessee. Since the 1990s, Murfreesboro has been Tennessee's fastest growing major city and one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Murfreesboro is home to Middle Tennessee State University, the second largest undergraduate university in the state of Tennessee, with almost 23,000 students in 2014.
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Official finishing times from previous editions of New Year's Day 5k.
| Place | Name | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Daniel Smith | 15:00 | |
| 🥈 | Fuji Anday | 15:13 | |
| 🥉 | Steelton Flynn | 15:46 | |
| 4 | Matthew Givens | 18:08 | |
| 5 | Kevin Yuenger | 18:09 | |
| 6 | Quentin Read | 18:11 | |
| 7 | Joshua Carroll | 18:11 | |
| 8 | Kylie Wittman | 18:34 | |
| 9 | Brennan Barlow | 18:47 | |
| 10 | Darren Kidd | 19:19 | |
| 11 | A. Bartsch | 19:31 | |
| 12 | Blaise Buchowski | 19:38 | |
| 13 | Clay Snellgrove | 19:56 | |
| 14 | John Byrnes | 20:07 | |
| 15 | Camden Butler | 20:07 | |
| 16 | Kelly Johnson | 20:10 | |
| 17 | Liam Hussels | 20:15 | |
| 18 | Roger Brady | 20:16 | |
| 19 | Samone Franzese | 20:26 | |
| 20 | Cole Blazer | 20:29 | |
| 21 | Kara Woody | 20:34 | |
| 22 | Will Shively | 20:35 | |
| 23 | Logan Winfree | 20:38 | |
| 24 | Elijah Rietz | 20:43 | |
| 25 | Richard Franzese | 21:11 | |
| 26 | Ian Petersen | 21:12 | |
| 27 | Courtney Pragel | 21:28 | |
| 28 | Robert Archibald | 21:32 | |
| 29 | Terence Melonas | 21:41 | |
| 30 | Butch Whitworth | 21:48 | |
| 31 | Christopher Williams | 21:53 | |
| 32 | Levi Stegner | 22:01 | |
| 33 | Josh Jenkins | 22:02 | |
| 34 | K. Schwab | 22:06 | |
| 35 | L. Dyer | 22:08 | |
| 36 | Heidi Hoeft | 22:09 | |
| 37 | Eric Borchert | 22:12 | |
| 38 | Paul Voorhees | 22:19 | |
| 39 | Caleb Barrett | 22:32 | |
| 40 | Sean La Shell | 22:33 | |
| 41 | Nathan Lesnak | 22:35 | |
| 42 | Chelsea Williams | 22:36 | |
| 43 | Bryan Johnson | 22:38 | |
| 44 | Saul Gray-Hildenbrand | 22:39 | |
| 45 | Jaime Bartsch | 22:45 | |
| 46 | Lee Winfree | 22:46 | |
| 47 | Steve Cochran | 22:50 | |
| 48 | Geary Fults | 22:55 | |
| 49 | Jeremy Woody | 23:01 | |
| 50 | Amanda Jenkins | 23:04 |
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