location_city Pensacola
location_on Florida
flag United States
calendar_today 20 Dec, 2025
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Register🍌🎅 Bananas vs. Santa's Run/Walk/Social
📅 Friday, December 20, 2025
Location:
📍 South Market at 3-Mile Bridge, Pensacola, FL
🏃♂️ About the Event
It’s the ultimate holiday showdown — Bananas vs. Santas!
(This is a untimed 5k) Run 5k, walk a mile, just hang out and play or watch the games or eat. The $5 is for hiring a road crossing guard to anyone hitting the bridge.
Come dressed in your best banana gear 🍌 or Santa costume 🎅 for a fun run/walk/social that’s all about festive fun, friendly rivalry, and community spirit.
Whether you sprint, jog, walk, or strut, you’re part of the fun!
All fitness levels are welcome.
The small fee helps pay for crossing guards and more, untimed, family-friendly event. Costumes encouraged!
This year we are planning to have a cross guard to allow bridge access from our parking area.
🎉 Special Kickoff: Gallery Night Street Takeover!
Join us Friday night, December 19, at Pensacola Gallery Night for a special pre-run social gathering!
We’ll meet up and “take to the streets” together — decked out in our bananas and Santa suits! 🍌🎅
Gallery Night Details:
📍 Downtown Pensacola
🕕 Meet-up Time: 6:00 PM at Fleet Feet
🎶 Food, drinks, music, and festive fun!
🛍️ Costume Alert:
Need a Santa suit?
🎅 Fleet Feet Pensacola will have Santa & Banana suits available for just $15 — stop by before the event to grab yours while supplies last!
🕘 Run/Walk Schedule — December 20:
7:30 AM — Check-in & Festive Meet-up
8:00 AM — Banana vs. Santa Fun Run/Walk Start
9:00 AM — Post-Run Social (Food, Drinks, Photos!)
Festive Game for Bananas vs. Santas
🍌 Banana Costume Contest
Best individual banana, best group banana, and most creative banana costume!
🎅 Santa Costume Contest
Best Santa, best Santa family/group, and most hilarious Santa.
🍌 Banana Toss🎄 Candy Cane Toss
🏃♂️ Banana Balance Sprint
🎨 Banana Decoration Contest
Relay race where players must stack “presents” (small boxes) and carry them across a finish line without dropping them!
Classic tug-of-war, but maybe with "Bananas vs. Santas" teams!
🍌 Banana Tug-of-War
📝 Important Notes:
This is a fun, social event — no timing chips or awards for speed.
Dress up, show up, and have FUN!
Friendly dogs and strollers welcome.
Bring your holiday spirit!
📢 Stay Updated:
Follow Fleet Feet Pensacola on Facebook and Instagram for event updates, costume inspiration, and more surprises leading up to race day!
Dec 20, 2025
Distance — 10K
Type — Road running
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Pensacola is a historic beach city in northwest Florida, in the United States of America. It is in Escambia County, Florida's westernmost county, at the tip of the "panhandle". The city is home to the Pensacola Naval Air Station, the National Museum of Naval Aviation and many historic districts that skirt the downtown area. Surrounded on three sides by water, the Pensacola area is full of history, shipwrecks, beaches and spectacular vistas.
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