About the Charlotte New Year's Day 5K 2027
The course starts on the UNC Charlotte campus, swings out onto the Toby Creek Greenway, and comes back to campus to finish. The greenway stretch keeps you off traffic and feels open, and the road sections through campus are straightforward. It runs on a New Year's morning, so the air tends to be cold and the crowd is still waking up.
Packet pickup runs the couple of days before at a local running store, with race-morning pickup available near the start. Parking is free in the campus deck, and the light rail drops you close to the start line if you want to skip the drive. The post-race party on campus has food, coffee, beer, and music.
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Charlotte New Year's Day 5K 2026 Results
Going by the 2026 results, this is a decent-sized field, and the spread of finish times is wide, so this is a mostly recreational race rather than one for club runners.
5K Results · 2026
440finishers
15:57winner
35:41median
1:23:25cutoff
Top 3: Jordan Schilit (15:57) · James Luttrell (18:01) · Roark Habegger (19:27)
The Charlotte New Year's Day 5K 2027 has been held every year since at least 2023. That is as far back as RunSignup's records for this race go, so it may well be older.
How we calculate these stats: RunSesh calculates these figures from the most recent published results of past editions, sourced from RunSignup. We show aggregates only: field size, winning and median times, and the cutoff. We never publish individual finisher tables. Last updated Oct 25, 2026.
Distances & Start Times
5K1/1/2027 10:00$40
Kids Dash1/1/2027 11:00$15
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