Ring in the New Year with us at the Palestine YMCA on January 1, 2027 as you race through a fun route starting and ending at our pool gates. After crossing the finish line, join the optional polar plunge!
Your 5K registration includes:
- event t-shirt
- finisher medal for first 100 finishers
- chip time
Limited spots available...the first 100 racers are guaranteed a finisher medal and you must register by December 12, 2026 for a guaranteed shirt size. After that, shirt sizes will be first come, first serve.
Schedule:
Packet Pickup - December 31, 2026, all day at Palestine YMCA and January 1, 2027 at 8am.
Race starts at 9am on January 1, 2027 near the Steven Bennett Park pool entrance!
Jan 01, 2027
Distance — 5K
Type — Running
09:00
$30.00
These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for January in Palestine.
Learn more about the host city, Palestine.
Palestine is a city in the Blackland Prairie region of Texas. It dates way back to the origins of the Texas Republic practically, when Anderson County was carved out and needed a county seat. Then it was a stage stop on the route between Texarkana and Austin and later a stop for the railroad, from which it derives a lot of its fame today, because of a popular restored line between here and Rusk that offers a sense of train travel of yesteryear through the Piney Woods. The town itself looks a little stuck in the past, and can be worth a gander.
Read more launchWatch highlights and course previews from previous years.
Official finishing times from previous editions of Dash & Splash 5K.
| Place | Name | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Devon Saturley | 20:36.48 | |
| 🥈 | Maddy Coe | 22:28.04 | |
| 🥉 | Camron Clark | 22:44.07 | |
| 4 | OLIVER TERRELL | 23:05.09 | |
| 5 | Colt admire | 23:14.73 | |
| 6 | Chase Atkinson | 24:49.64 | |
| 7 | Jayson Jenkins | 25:43.83 | |
| 8 | Cherie Hernandez | 26:21.02 | |
| 9 | Jordan Farley | 26:42.2 | |
| 10 | Christophe Trahan | 27:04.55 | |
| 11 | Marcelo Gonzalez | 27:29.66 | |
| 12 | Kevin Kilgore | 27:42.93 | |
| 13 | R. Parsons | 28:57.01 | |
| 14 | S. Davis | 28:57.51 | |
| 15 | Melissa Jenkins | 29:03.98 | |
| 16 | Veronica Olvera | 30:56.26 | |
| 17 | Mckenze sander | 32:17.92 | |
| 18 | Dawn Nelson | 32:27.9 | |
| 19 | Cindy Piersol | 32:55.34 | |
| 20 | Courtney Bullard | 33:46.18 | |
| 21 | F. Bullard | 33:50.29 | |
| 22 | Lucinda Trahan | 34:42.7 | |
| 23 | Josh Shellenbarger | 34:45.96 | |
| 24 | Aubrey Bosier | 34:47.94 | |
| 25 | Ronnie Reedle | 34:54.92 | |
| 26 | Ryan Tucker | 36:18.4 | |
| 27 | Caleb Ellison | 36:31.89 | |
| 28 | Laura Zylstra | 36:46.66 | |
| 29 | Amanda Wendel | 37:30.56 | |
| 30 | Tabitha Franklin | 37:32.27 | |
| 31 | DAVID BOOTH | 39:57.8 | |
| 32 | Jacquelyn Bruce | 40:28.17 | |
| 33 | Allona Butler | 40:37.24 | |
| 34 | Jake Parks | 41:54.99 | |
| 35 | Andrew Pyle | 41:57.57 | |
| 36 | Stacy Little | 41:58.3 | |
| 37 | Kylie Reardon | 42:35.61 | |
| 38 | D. Bergman | 42:35.86 | |
| 39 | C. Hart | 42:41.7 | |
| 40 | Cassie Severn | 42:57.88 | |
| 41 | Katrina Hart | 42:59.05 | |
| 42 | Maci Erickson | 43:49.85 | |
| 43 | Maria Zuniga | 45:51.9 | |
| 44 | M. Brashier | 48:55.07 | |
| 45 | rick ross | 48:55.52 | |
| 46 | David Brashier | 49:09.16 | |
| 47 | Cathy Hooper | 50:48.88 | |
| 48 | Kathrine Newton | 50:48.92 | |
| 49 | Tracy Torma | 51:33.83 | |
| 50 | Kathy Lerich | 52:36.07 |
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