Running With The Bulls
About this race
Bring your herd and run with the bulls at the 2025 Running with the Bulls Fun Run and 5K Race at the Heart O’ Texas Fair & Rodeo! Enjoy an easy one-mile fun run or try your time in the 5K.
The races will be held on Saturday, October 4th starting at 8:00 a.m. on the Northeast side of the Extraco Coliseum. Runners will race (or trot) throughout the fairgrounds and end by running with the bulls of the All American ProRodeo Finals on the dirt of the Extraco Events Center Coliseum.
Packet Pickup will be: 4:30pm - 6:30pm Friday, October 3rd
Packet Pickup Address: First National Bank of Central Texas (1835 N. Valley Mills Drive Waco, TX 76710)
Participation Includes:
* $20 Admission Ticket to any day of your choice for the Heart O’ Texas Fair & Rodeo.
Admission does include concert for select days.
* Finisher Medal (guaranteed until September 1st)
* Race T-shirt (guaranteed until September 1st)
* Race Bib
* Refreshments
* Bragging Rights – not many people can say they’ve ran with bulls.
Pick your distance
Running
5K
Day of packet pick-up and race day registration will be at the race site on race morning from 6:30-7:45am. Awards: Overall M/F, top M/F per age group Age Groups: • 12&U • 13-19 • 20-24 • 25-29 • 30-34 • 35-39 • 40-44 • 45-49 • 50-54 • 55-59 • 60-64 • 65-69 • 70+ T-shirts and finisher medals guaranteed to all entries received through September 1. Very limited quantities available after this date. This is a chip-timed race!
1 Mile Fun Run
Day of packet pick-up and race day registration will be at the race site on race morning from 6:30-7:45am. T-shirts & Finisher Medals guaranteed to all entries received through September 1. Very limited quantities available after this date. This is an untimed, just for fun event!
Typical race-day weather
Based on 11 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Waco, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 7:28 AM and sets at 7:02 PM local time (CDT) in Waco on October 10, 2026 — 11h 34m of daylight.
Course
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2026 results — Running With The Bulls
5K · 225 finishers
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leoncio Moreno | 17:02 | 5:30 /mi |
| 2 | Jeremiah Olvera | 17:41 | 5:42 /mi |
| 3 | Nick Cardona | 18:27 | 5:57 /mi |
| 4 | Marcos Acosta | 19:16 | 6:13 /mi |
| 5 | Jullian Martinez | 19:21 | 6:15 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 49 Waco events
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