Thu, Nov 26, 2026
Bentonville, AR
The Gobbler is a Thanksgiving-week race in Bentonville, the kind of morning that draws families looking to move their legs before the holiday meal. The course is a road 5k, though the organizer also offers a shorter fun run option alongside it, so groups with mixed abilities tend to show up together.
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Going by the 2025 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.
Top 3: Jared Croft (16:18) · Jack Draper (16:30) · Christian Sanchez (16:41)
Top 3: A. Penturf (8:23) · L. Andreev Guimaraes (8:35) · Elizaveta Davies (9:00)
The Bentonville Gobbler 5k has been held every year since at least 2022. That is as far back as RunSignup's records for this race go, so it may well be older.
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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 Nov 12, 2026.
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Almost certainly not. Half the race field finished slower than 31:17, and the last recorded finisher came in around 1:01:40, so there is a long tail of runners behind the middle of the pack. Most fields are far slower than people expect.
A field of 526 is big enough that you will have company at your pace without feeling lost in a crowd. There is no qualifying time, and the finish-time spread above shows how varied the field really is. If it is your first race, that spread matters more than the winner's time.
The race winner ran 16:18 while the median finisher took 31:17. That spread points to a broad, mostly recreational field rather than a race dominated by club runners.
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