Thankful Turkey 5K, 10K & Half Marathon
About this race
Continue your favorite Thanksgiving tradition with the Virtual Thankful Turkey 5K, 10K & Half Marathon for free!
Run the 5K, 10K or a half marathon and submit your results by November 30th. Here are the rules...Run it on your own, on a course of your choosing or on a treadmill, and report your time to be added to the virtual leaderboard.
Or take on the Thankful Turkey 50-mile Challenge. You do not need to run all the miles at once. Run it when you want, run it where you want, run on a treadmill; any miles count! Our results system lets you add up your miles until you reach the 50 Thankful Miles.
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Running
5K
10K
Half Marathon
50 Mile Challenge
Typical race-day weather
Based on 5 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Lake Zurich, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:25 AM and sets at 4:46 PM local time (CST) in Lake Zurich on November 1, 2026 — 10h 20m of daylight.
Course
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2026 results — Thankful Turkey 5K, 10K & Half Marathon
101 finishers across 4 distances · leading places in the 5K
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RISHI JHA | 20:42 | 6:40 /mi |
| 2 | Adrian Turner | 21:50 | 7:02 /mi |
| 3 | Iffy Igboeli | 22:24 | 7:13 /mi |
| 4 | Benril Mendez | 24:25 | 7:52 /mi |
| 5 | RISHI JHA | 24:30 | 7:53 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
All results by year
Other races near Lake Zurich
Different organizers, within 40 miles, in the next three months
🏃 Plan Your Next Race in Lake Zurich
Find upcoming events by distance:
- Lake Zurich 5K Races 17 races
- 10K Run Events in Lake Zurich 6 races
- Lake Zurich Half Marathons 6 races
- Lake Zurich Running Calendar 2026 17 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, 18 Lake Zurich events
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