Davis Stampede
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Event overview
The Davis Stampede is scheduled for Sunday, February 22, 2026, at Playfields Park, 2500 Research Park Drive, Davis, CA. The event offers multiple distance options and entry categories, including:
- Half Marathon
- 10K
- 5K
- 2K family fun run/walk
A virtual participant option and a category for support runners or sighted guides for adaptive entrants are also available. The event benefits the nonprofit Cancer Champions.
Course, logistics, and entries
All races start and finish at Playfields Park in South Davis. Courses are mostly paved and route runners and walkers through east and south Davis greenbelts and neighborhood streets. The Half Marathon course passes through the Wildhorse nature preserve and alongside the Wildhorse Golf Course, includes several bike tunnels and sections adjacent to Putah Creek, and contains a mixed-surface stretch of gravel and decomposed granite. There is a brief gravel section near Barovetto Park.
Race services include chip timing, finisher medals, a performance short-sleeved t-shirt (with an optional long-sleeve upgrade for a fee), and course water stations stocked with water and electrolyte replacement approximately every two miles. Awards are presented by overall place (gun time) and by age group (net time); special divisions are offered (for example, Cancer Champions’ Cancer Survivor, Davis resident, adaptive/wheelchair, college students, and teachers). Packet pick-up is available the day before and at the venue on race day. Entries are non-refundable and non-transferable; the event will proceed rain or shine. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.
