Speed The Light 5k Festival
About this race
🌍👟 Every step makes a difference! ❤️
The Speed The Light 5K 🏃♂️🏃♀️ benefits missionaries around the world 🌎 by providing the 🚗 vehicles, 🛠️ equipment, and 📦 resources they need to share the ✝️ Gospel.
More than a race, it's an opportunity to inspire 💙 young people to live generously—making a difference in their own communities 🏘️ and around the world. 🌍
Whether you run 🏃 or walk 🚶, you're helping make an eternal impact. ✝️✨
🙌 Sign up today and be part of something bigger than the finish line! 🏁❤️
📅 Date: September 5, 2026
📍 Location: Fireman's Park
201 N. 1st St.
McAllen, TX 78501
💲 Price: $25
👕 Shirt: NO SHIRT will be offered for this race.
⏰ Start Time: 6:00 p.m.
🏃♂️⏱️ Professionally Chip Timed by HogRacing Timing
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Running
5K
Race-day daylight
We have no recorded weather for Mcallen yet, but sunrise and sunset follow from the venue and the date.
The sun rises at 7:14 AM and sets at 7:48 PM local time (CDT) in Mcallen on September 5, 2026 — 12h 33m of daylight.
Course
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2026 results — Speed The Light 5k Festival
5K · 83 finishers
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Marquez | 20:14 | 6:32 /mi |
| 2 | Anwar Contreras | 21:47 | 7:02 /mi |
| 3 | Nikolas Dunlap | 22:31 | 7:16 /mi |
| 4 | Jonathan Garcia | 23:09 | 7:28 /mi |
| 5 | Ethan Castillo | 23:11 | 7:29 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
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🏃 Plan Your Next Race in Mcallen
Find upcoming events by distance:
- Mcallen 5K Races 23 races
- Mcallen Running Calendar 2026 26 races
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, 26 Mcallen events
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