Unicorns & Rainbows 5k

Unicorns & Rainbows 5k is run in Seattle, Washington, in King County, on January 10, 2027. There is one distance, a 5K, and it starts at 10:00 AM. The event is open to every age and is framed as a lighthearted way to start the year, with unicorns and rainbows as the theme rather than any kind of qualifying standard.

A 10:00 AM start is unusually civil for a race and makes this an easy one to bring family or friends to: no dawn alarm, and enough time to warm up properly beforehand. Experienced runners can treat the 5K as a short, hard effort and use it as a January benchmark before a spring build. If you are newer to it, three runs a week for six weeks is plenty to reach the finish comfortably, walking breaks included. Either way, the tone here is closer to a group outing than to a competition.