2025 - Great Bear Run
2025 distances
Running
5K Run
Race starts and ends on Harris Ave. in front of Pollard School. See the race course at www.viewtherace.com
1M Run
This is the competitive 1 Mile Run. It starts and ends on Harris Ave. in front of the Pollard School.
5K Run and 1M Run
Run both the 5K and 1M competitive races
1M Fun Run
This is a noncompetitive race. Participants may walk or run. No competitive awards are made. The race is not timed.
Race date Weather
Conditions on May 18, 2025 — historical Open-Meteo data.
Course
Route map and elevation profile
No course map published yet.
The organizer hasn't released a route for this event, and we don't publish guesses. If you're the organizer, send us a GPX file and we'll draw the profile.
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🏃 Plan Your Next Race in Needham
Find upcoming events by distance:
- Needham 5K Races 3 races
- Needham Running Calendar 2026 11 races
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, 11 Needham events
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