SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - If you want to earn those Thanksgiving calories early Thursday, a Springfield tradition is back for the 31st year so you can do just that.

The 5k race around Springfield starts at 8 a.m. with plenty of fun costumes, festive people, and even some dogs running too.

“It’s easy to think of Thanksgiving as a day where we all just sit around and wait for lunch to be ready,” said Jenny Fillmer Edwards with the Springfield-Greene County Park Board, “and then we lay around and watch football and it’s sort of a lazy day. But it’s great, especially if you have a house full of people to have something to get out and do together, and then come back with a sense of accomplishment, of ‘I’ve run a 5k. I’ve already done something big today,’ and it gives you sort of that permissi

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