Sat, Oct 3, 2026
Hot Springs National Park, AR
The course runs on a gravel trail through part of Garvan Gardens, a botanical garden outside downtown Hot Springs National Park. The footing is packed gravel the whole way, so road shoes work fine, but the garden setting makes it feel more like a stroll through something worth seeing than a typical race morning.
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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.
2 Miles · 2025 results
Top 3: Alan Krenzelok (13:52) · Trinity Chafin (14:33) · Joel Gonzalez (14:49)
The HOT SPRINGS H2GORUN! 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.
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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 Jul 27, 2026.
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Almost certainly not. Half the 2 Miles field finished slower than 26:47, and the last recorded finisher came in around 41:07, 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 (50 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 2 Miles, that spread matters more than the winner's time.
The 2 Miles winner ran 13:52 while the median finisher took 26:47. That spread points to a broad, mostly recreational field rather than a race dominated by club runners.