Run For The Redfish Half Marathon, 5K & Kids' Mile

Run For The Redfish Half Marathon, 5K & Kids' Mile is part of the Panama City Beach marathon weekend in Panama City Beach, Florida, on December 5, 2026. The marathon (26.2 miles) starts at 7 a.m., the half marathon (13.1 miles) at 7:30 and the 5K at 8, with a kids' fun run alongside them. Everything starts and finishes at Pier Park. Entrants get a shirt and a medal, the course has water stops, medical support and traffic control, awards go to the top runners, and there is a post-race party at Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville.

Roads, a shared start and finish, and a full ladder of distances make this an easy weekend to plan around one household. If the marathon is the goal, sixteen weeks with a weekly long run and a couple of rehearsal efforts at race pace is the standard build; the half needs about twelve. Anyone racing the 5K can go hard and still be back at the finish line to watch the longer races come in.