{"id":136496,"date":"2026-01-29T17:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/136496\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:17:35","slug":"2026-st-pete-run-fest-registration-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/136496\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 St. Pete Run Fest registration now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Registration for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterunfest.org\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22169865994&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADOFLf_4vVUyMswhZirRKSajmMjjK&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiAp-zLBhDkARIsABcYc6us9klzh3QWC0lDoGJIm15ckedQpn0T98fX-1Vh3SzE-Kwvc9YZ-UcaAlAlEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">9th annual St. Pete Run Fest\u00a0<\/a>opened Thursday morning, and this year, runners are in for an upgraded experience.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s festival will take place Nov. 13-15, 2026, after a sell-out of over 22,000 people and a 5 million economic impact in 2025. The 2026 St. Pete Run Fest, which organizers are calling a 13.1-mile street party, is set to feature all the usual races, including the Regenexx Half Marathon, Orlando Health 10K, Duke Energy 5K, PeliKids Youth Runs and the VEG PeliPaws Dog Walk.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to returning events like the Friday Night Shakeout Run through Al Land Stadium, the mascot race adn the pickle-eating competition, the 2026 event is set to feature several new upgraded experiences, like:<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the Pinellas County area code, the registration opened at 7:27 a.m. on Thursday for the three-day festival on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/raceroster.com\/events\/2026\/113330\/st-pete-run-fest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">St. Pete Run Fest website. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Registration for the\u00a09th annual St. Pete Run Fest\u00a0opened Thursday morning, and this year, runners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-136496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}