Thoreau Road Race
About this race
The Thoreau School Road Race is back! We're excited to offer this event again in 2026.
Race Details
- Sunday May 17th, 2026
- 5k (All Ages): 9am
- Kids Run (~.8 miles): 10am
- Awards Ceremony: 10:30am
- Start/Finish of all races in front of Thoreau Elementary School, 29 Prairie Street, Concord, MA 01742. Parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood, with limited parking at the school itself.
- All proceeds benefit the Thoreau Elementary School.
Registration Details
- All participants who pre-registered before May 1st will receive a Thoreau School Road Race T-Shirt! We'll do our best to accommodate shirts/sizes for registrations after May 1st, but shirt availability and sizes are not guaranteed for registrations after this date.
- Registration is available on the morning of the race, at an increased fee.
- **Early Packet Pickup is available! Early registrants can pick up their packet on Friday, May 15th, from 3 to 4pm in front of Thoreau Elementary School. Save time on race morning!**
- Packets may also be picked up on race morning.
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Running
5k
Kids Run (~.8 miles)
Typical race-day weather
Based on 5 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Concord, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 5:21 AM and sets at 8:02 PM local time (EDT) in Concord on May 17, 2026 — 14h 41m of daylight.
Course
No course map published yet.
The organizer hasn't released a route for this event, and we don't publish guesses. If you're the organizer, send us a GPX file and we'll draw the profile.
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2026 results — Thoreau Road Race
168 finishers across 2 distances · leading places in the 5k
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Binder | 17:57 | 5:48 /mi |
| 2 | Corey Robinson | 18:57 | 6:08 /mi |
| 3 | Dominic Carroll | 19:52 | 6:25 /mi |
| 4 | Jochen Steinbrecher | 20:23 | 6:35 /mi |
| 5 | Katie Carr | 20:43 | 6:42 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
All results by year
Other races near Concord
Different organizers, within 40 miles, in the next three months
Sudbury Road Race
Stow Gobbler 5k
The LexGiving 5k
GenesisHR Battlegreen Run 2025
🏃 Plan Your Next Race in Concord
Find upcoming events by distance:
- Concord 5K Races 3 races
- Concord Running Calendar 2026 3 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, 3 Concord events
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