Walk for Sickle Cell Austin

Walk for Sickle Cell Austin takes place in Austin, Texas, on October 31, 2026. The single format is a 1K walk and run, a little over half a mile, starting at 9:00 a.m., which asks almost nothing of your current fitness.

At that distance this is an awareness and fundraising walk rather than a race, and it suits children, anyone returning from injury and people who do not run at all. If you are a runner, treat the kilometer as one piece of a longer easy day: warm up with a couple of miles beforehand, or keep running once you have finished, and the morning still fits into a training week without disrupting anything. If you are walking it, no preparation is needed beyond comfortable shoes, and a 9 a.m. start on a Saturday leaves the rest of the day free.