Fishers YMCA Wishbone 5K
About this race
The Wishbone 5K Run/Walk is an annual Thanksgiving event for the entire community. This year we’re celebrating 16 years of families coming together for a morning of fitness and fun.
Leashed dogs and strollers are welcome along the route but, in the interest of safety, we ask that these participants start near the back of their corrals.
Why Participate?The Wishbone 5K is the Fishers YMCA’s signature event for the Annual Campaign, which helps to subsidize memberships, programs, summer camp and before/after school care. Since the race began in 2011, nearly $650,000 has been raised to ensure that no one is sent away from the YMCA due to the inability to pay. More than 15,000 participants have grown the Wishbone 5K into the premier Thanksgiving run in our community.
How Your Support Makes a DifferenceYour participation in this annual Fishers tradition allows us to grow the reach of the Fishers YMCA Annual Giving. Your support will help the Y respond to current crucial needs of families from our community and ensure the Y continues to be strong as we emerge better together.
More than one in every four members and one in every five program participants receive financial assistance. Providing Y for All means that we can assist more than 7,000 local families each year. The YMCA is for everyone, but we need your help to make that possible!
VIRTUAL RACE OPTION
Wishbone 5K The "live" Wishbone 5K. This option is for those who want to run the 5K in person at the Fishers YMCA on Thanksgiving morning. **In the event that we move the race to fully virtual, in-person participants will automatically become virtual participants, NO REFUNDS** Wishbone 5K - Virtual Out of state, want to sleep in, or prefer to run whenever you want? You have the option to run a Wishbone 5K "virtually" on a course of your choosing. Complete your virtual Wishbone 5K anytime!Awards
Top 3 Overall, Male and Female Winners along with the Top 3 Masters (40+) Male and Female Winners and Age-Group Awards in 10-year increments (9 & Under, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70 & up) both Male and Female.
Packet Pickup
Packet pick-up Wednesday, November 25, 12-8PM, Fishers YMCA Thursday (Race Day), 6:30-7AMPick your distance
Running
Fishers YMCA 2026 Wishbone 5K
REGISTRATION The cutoff for receiving a shirt at Packet Pickup before Thanksgiving is November 8, 2026. Those registering after November 8 can pick up their shirts at the Fishers YMCA after December 15. PACKET PICKUP Wednesday, November 27th, Noon - 8PM, Fishers YMCA Thursday (Race Morning), 6:30AM - 7AM RACE INFO Participants may run or walk along the course and strollers are allowed. Please use caution when lining up to begin the race. Those with strollers will be escorted to the end of the line up area. Start Time: 8AM STUFF YOU GET Participants receive a cool medal and long sleeve shirt! Register by November 10th in order to receive a shirt at packet pick up. Those registering after November 10th may pick up their shirts at the Fishers YMCA beginning December 15. VOLUNTEER There's no better way to give thanks than to give back. Join us this Thanksgiving morning for our annual 5K and give back in your community. indymca. TAX INFORMATION The YMCA of Greater Indianapolis is a tax exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code; ID # 35-0868211. In return for your registration, the YMCA provided goods or services with an estimated value in the amount of your registration fees. The tax deductible portion of your receipt is the excess contribution over the amount of the registration fees. Please keep this receipt as a record for tax purposes. **In the event that we move the race to fully virtual, in person participants will automatically become virtual participants, NO REFUNDS**
Fishers YMCA 2026 Wishbone 5K - Virtual
Out of state, want to sleep in, or prefer to run whenever you want? You have the option to run a Wishbone 5K "virtually" on a course of your choosing. Complete your virtual Wishbone 5K anytime between November 26th and December 25th.
Typical race-day weather
Based on 6 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Fishers, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 7:41 AM and sets at 5:21 PM local time (EST) in Fishers on November 26, 2026 — 9h 39m of daylight.
Course
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 12 Fishers events
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