Sat, Sep 19, 2026
Salado, TX
The race starts and finishes at the Salado Civic Center parking lot on Main Street. It was organized to honor two local elementary school students going through cancer treatment, and the proceeds go toward pediatric cancer research and patient care at a children's hospital and a Ronald McDonald House. The cause is specific, and you feel it on the course.
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Going by the 2024 results, this is a small, friendly field, with a competitive front end and a big recreational middle.
3.10686 Miles · 2024 results
Top 3: Brandon Chinn (20:43) · Zoie Adcox (23:14) · Blake Matthews (23:52)
The It Takes a Village - Childhood Cancer Awareness 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 Jul 27, 2026.
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Almost certainly not. Half the 3.10686 Miles field finished slower than 36:58, and the last recorded finisher came in around 1:11:06, 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 (103 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 3.10686 Miles, that spread matters more than the winner's time.
The 3.10686 Miles winner ran 20:43 while the median finisher took 36:58. That spread points to a mixed field, with a competitive front and a big recreational middle.
