This is a charity race in Tampa, with proceeds going to the American Red Cross for disaster relief work across the state. The course is professionally managed and timed, and a kids' run runs alongside the main event for younger participants. A post-race expo with vendor partners follows the finish.
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Going by the 2025 results, this is a small, friendly field, and the spread of finish times is wide, so this is a mostly recreational race rather than one for club runners.
Top 3: Josh Dombroski (17:42) · WALTER OLALLES (17:57) · Jarrett Ahrens (18:57)
The Circle K 5k has been held every year since at least 2024. 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 Oct 25, 2026.
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Almost certainly not. Half the 3.1 Miles field finished slower than 36:25, and the last recorded finisher came in around 1:03:03, so there is a long tail of runners behind the middle of the pack. Most fields are far slower than people expect.
It is a small race (165 finishers), which is friendlier and less intimidating than a big-city event, though the field thins out. There is no qualifying time, and the finish-time spread above shows how varied the field really is. If it is your first 3.1 Miles, that spread matters more than the winner's time.
The 3.1 Miles winner ran 17:42 while the median finisher took 36:25. That spread points to a broad, mostly recreational field rather than a race dominated by club runners.
Join a local run club. Run Tampa, Run the Heights, Run Club for MFs That Don't Run and others in Tampa welcome runners of all paces, and a weekly group run is the most reliable way to hold a training block together.
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