St. Jude Walk

About the Event

Join us at IWU Tucci Stadium (located directly behind the Shirk Center) as we celebrate the mission and the kids of St. Jude!

As the community event for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the St. Jude Walk is where we unite supporters across the country to provide hope and healing for families during their toughest times. Regardless of your pace or path, when you join the St. Jude Walk, you're taking steps to cure childhood cancer.

The St. Jude Walk is an inspiring, family-friendly event that unites people across the nation behind the lifesaving mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children.®

We will be offering a 1 Mile Walk, 5K, 10K, and Half Marathon
*Half Marathon Participants* please note there is a 3 1/2 hour course time limit

Previous Race Routes can be found HERE. 2026 race routes are not expected to change significantly, if at all.

All donations and registration fees will directly benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for September in Bloomington.

thermostat Temperature

15.6° / 25.5°

wb_sunny Feels like

14.2° / 24.4°

light_mode Avg sunshine hours

10h 34m

water_drop Avg rainfall

1.8 mm

ac_unit Avg snowfall

—

air Avg wind speed

11.1 km/h (Light breeze)

opacity Sweat loss rate

High

terrain Course conditions

Hard and dry surface

sunny Max UV Index

Moderate (5.0)

humidity_mid Humidity

65.6%

wb_twilight Sunrise

06:37

nightlight Sunset

19:03

About Bloomington

Learn more about the host city, Bloomington.

Bloomington is a city in McLean County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. The 2020 census showed the city had a population of 78,680, making it the 13th-most populous city in Illinois and the fifth-most populous outside the Chicago metropolitan area. It is adjacent to the town of Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, which has a population of roughly 170,000.