Jingle Bell Run — Arizona

Jingle Bell Run – Arizona follows the Rio Salado Pathway from Riverview Park, on Rio Salado Parkway in Mesa, with a timed 5K, an untimed 5K and a 1-mile option, and dogs and strollers are welcome. Each participant takes home a shirt, jingle bells and a medal. Honorees include Dr. Bertrand Kaper of HonorHealth, a joint-replacement surgeon who leads free surgical missions abroad, and Lydia, who spent four months in a wheelchair after a juvenile idiopathic arthritis diagnosis at 7 and now copes by dancing to Taylor Swift.