Willow Bay 5k Run & Fitness Walk for Women
About this race
Fun women's only event including a flat, fast, certified, scenic out-and-back paved course that is closed to traffic.
Prizes include: overall top 3, 5-year age groups, family teams, the Double Your Fun challenge, and door prizes.
Attractive shirt for all participants while supplies last. For best selection of souvenir shirt sizes, enter by July 31st.
Registration price increases as we get closer to the race day. Day of race entry fee (at the Willow Bay Race Site) is $45.
For further details, see below.
Event Schedule:
7:30 am Registration Opens at the Sawmill Creek Pavilion
9:00 am START 5k Run & Fitness Walk for Women
10:15 am Random Prize Drawings begin
10:30 am Awards Ceremony
Pick your distance
Running
33rd Annual Willow Bay 5K IN-PERSON Run & Walk for Women
Flat, certified (NY83004TC) out and back course along the East Shore of Onondaga Lake. Start at Willow Bay; turnaround near the Yacht Club; and finish at Willow Bay. To get to the start, enter the park via Long Branch Road. This is a women-only event that was created in 1993 as part of the Women’s Distance Festival Series that was, at the time, being promoted throughout the country. The motivation for the series was to get a Women’s 5K Race into the Olympic games as up until then, it was thought that a 5K was too long of a distance for women!
33rd Annual Willow Bay 5K VIRTUAL Run & Fitness Walk for Women
Please pick up your shirt at the Fleet Feet Packet Pickup See below or visit SyracuseChargers.org/events for more information
Typical race-day weather
Based on 12 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Liverpool, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:10 AM and sets at 8:07 PM local time (EDT) in Liverpool on August 15, 2026 — 13h 56m of daylight.
Course
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2026 results — Willow Bay 5k Run & Fitness Walk for Women
33rd Annual Willow Bay 5K IN-PERSON Run & Walk for Women · 176 finishers
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bethany M Hudson | 19:21 | 6:14 /mi |
| 2 | Lexi Ward | 19:45 | 6:22 /mi |
| 3 | Natalie Digennaro | 22:24 | 7:13 /mi |
| 4 | Rebecca Lazarek | 23:00 | 7:25 /mi |
| 5 | Joan Rappaport | 23:02 | 7:25 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
All results by year
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- Liverpool 5K Races 16 races
- Liverpool Running Calendar 2026 16 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, 17 Liverpool events
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