Memorial Day 5K Virtual Run - New Orleans
About this race
🇺🇸 Memorial Day 5K Virtual Run 2026
Join runners and walkers from across America for the 2026 Memorial Day 5k Virtual Run — a meaningful nationwide event honoring the brave men and women who gave their lives in service to our country.
This Memorial Day, run not only for fitness… but for remembrance.
Whether you complete your miles through your neighborhood, at a local park, on a treadmill, or alongside family and friends, every step becomes a tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.
🎖 Event Highlights
- Receive a Premium Memorial Day Tribute T-Shirt
- Run or walk from any location
- Complete your event anytime during Memorial Day weekend
- Submit your results online
- View nationwide participant results and photos
- Receive a commemorative digital finisher medal
🏃 Event Distances
5K Run/Walk
All fitness levels are welcome.
📸 Share Your Tribute to runday2026@gmail.com
Participants are encouraged to upload:
- Finish line photos
- Flag displays
- Family tributes
- Military remembrance moments
- Selected photos may be featured in the official Memorial Day Virtual Run recap video and online gallery.
🇺🇸 Honor • Remember • Run
This event is more than a race — it is a nationwide moment of reflection, gratitude, and unity.
Run in memory.
Run in gratitude.
Run so their sacrifice is never forgotten.
We invite you to be part of this special Memorial Day tradition.
Pick your distance
Running
5K
Your choice of shirt color this year!
Typical race-day weather
Based on 5 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in New Orleans, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:02 AM and sets at 7:51 PM local time (CDT) in New Orleans on May 23, 2026 — 13h 49m 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, 43 New Orleans events
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