Haunted Hustle 1M/5K

Haunted Hustle 1M/5K is held in Marietta, Georgia, on October 31, 2026, and run under the YMCA banner. The one-miler starts at 8:00 a.m. and the 5K, covering 3.1 miles, follows at 8:30 a.m. The half-hour between them leaves room to do both if you want a hard mile ahead of the longer race, or to watch one and run the other.

If you want a number to take away from the morning, the 5K gives you the more useful one: it tracks your fitness closely and is easy to repeat a few months later for comparison. Prepare with four to six weeks of one weekly interval session and otherwise easy running. If you do double up, run the mile controlled rather than flat out, because a maximal mile thirty minutes beforehand will cost you more in the 5K than it gains you in bragging rights.