Ever wanted to race your friends, family and neighbors down Battlefield Blvd? Well, the Holly Jolly Jog is back for a 2nd year! A family-friendly, 1 mile fun run and race before the Chesapeake Rotary Christmas Parade will give you the chance to do exactly that. 30 minutes before the start of the Christmas parade, lace up and run, jog, or walk the route - under the lights - and being cheered on by thousands of your Chesapeake friends and family. Add to the festivities with Christmas lights, pjs, ugly sweaters and costumes (no full Santa costumes allowed - there’s only one Santa in the parade). Also, sadly, for safety reasons, no farm animals will be allowed to race this year.
The course will be chip-timed and feature an official USTAF measurement. Runners will be corraled based on anticipated pace/finishing time to ensure competitiveness and opportunity for serious runners to compete to be the inagural champion of the Holloy Jolly Jog.
Are you registering your whole family? We have a family registration package where you can register 2 adults and up to 6 children for $60. Please note this registration does not include t-shirts, which you can add on. Click Family Registration after you click the sign up link above to add additional registrants.
Dec 05, 2026
Distance — 1 Miles
Type — Running
17:30
$20.00
These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for December in Chesapeake.
Learn more about the host city, Chesapeake.
Chesapeake is a town of 245,000 people (2019) in the Hampton Roads region of Eastern Virginia. Chesapeake is a diverse city in which a few urban areas are located; it also has many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Read more launchOfficial finishing times from previous editions of Chesapeake Rotary Holly Jolly Jog Race and Fun Run presented by the YMCA of South Hampton Roads.
| Place | Name | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Kash Adams | 5:14.53 | |
| 🥈 | Blake Nieter | 5:15.65 | |
| 🥉 | John Bunn IV | 5:38.09 | |
| 4 | G. McCollum | 5:40.17 | |
| 5 | Brent Nieter | 5:41.65 | |
| 6 | Michael Tucker Jr. | 5:50.92 | |
| 7 | MADI SCOTT | 5:56.74 | |
| 8 | R. Powers | 5:57.35 | |
| 9 | Colin Goedecke | 6:22.83 | |
| 10 | Elijah Ellis | 6:23.43 | |
| 11 | Ryan Powers | 6:28.58 | |
| 12 | Stephen DeGrood | 6:35.97 | |
| 13 | Jonathan Jarrett | 6:37.41 | |
| 14 | Nathanael Barnes | 6:38.35 | |
| 15 | Bill Volkman | 6:40.29 | |
| 16 | Tucker Peacey | 7:02.36 | |
| 17 | L. DeGrood | 7:18.03 | |
| 18 | Nathan DeGrood | 7:18.6 | |
| 19 | Robert Clark | 7:30.53 | |
| 20 | N. Powell | 7:33.31 | |
| 21 | Z. Shafer | 7:33.6 | |
| 22 | C. Hood | 7:50.43 | |
| 23 | L. Arrington | 7:51.35 | |
| 24 | Tyler Murphy | 7:55.26 | |
| 25 | Joshua Ring | 7:59.21 | |
| 26 | Robert Oliver | 8:00.5 | |
| 27 | W. Campbell | 8:04.07 | |
| 28 | J. LiVoti | 8:06.7 | |
| 29 | E. Campbell | 8:21.52 | |
| 30 | Jackson Robbins | 8:24.3 | |
| 31 | Liam Spence | 8:24.76 | |
| 32 | Michael Fox | 8:27.77 | |
| 33 | J. Rawls | 8:47.36 | |
| 34 | J. Oliver | 8:47.6 | |
| 35 | Kyan Posey | 8:50.16 | |
| 36 | E. Williams | 8:52.74 | |
| 37 | Olivia Reeseman | 8:58.54 | |
| 38 | Jay Shifflett | 9:01.57 | |
| 39 | J. Shifflett | 9:03.45 | |
| 40 | S. Powell | 9:12.97 | |
| 41 | N. Oliver | 9:13.4 | |
| 42 | Dorothy Hood | 9:14 | |
| 43 | B. Powers | 9:14.52 | |
| 44 | Katie Powers | 9:19.26 | |
| 45 | Theresa Rawls | 9:19.89 | |
| 46 | D. Orr | 9:21.06 | |
| 47 | Cameron Everton | 9:32.89 | |
| 48 | W. Powell | 9:33.59 | |
| 49 | Cliff Everton | 9:33.89 | |
| 50 | Brittney Powell | 9:36.43 |
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