Gijón Half Marathon 2027

Gijón’s half marathon is a Saturday-evening race. The 15th edition starts at 17:30 on 10 October 2026 from the Las Mestas sports complex, the city’s big sports park on the east side. The organisers bill it as flat and fast, a course for chasing a PB. It’s on the Spanish athletics federation’s national calendar, and you get timing splits every 5 km.

Getting in

General entry (€22) closed on 8 September, and the race is now full. The only way in is the waiting-list draw on the official website. Runners with an Asturian athletics licence entered at a reduced price, because the race doubles as a regional championship. If you don’t hold a licence and you do get a place from the waitlist, you’ll need a €3 day licence.

Watch the cut-offs

The overall limit is 2 h 30 min, but there are two intermediate checkpoints that catch people out:

• km 10 in 1:15 (7:30/km)
• km 15 in 1:50 (about 7:20/km)

Run even splits for exactly 2:30 and you’ll be about four minutes inside the km 10 cut-off and just over three minutes inside the km 15 one. That’s not much room for a slow start or a bad patch, so if you’re near the back, give yourself a bigger buffer early.

Race evening

Changing rooms, showers and bag drop are all at Las Mestas, so you can arrive in normal clothes and leave clean. The race is organised by the city’s municipal sports trust with AD Gijón Atletismo.

An evening start in Asturias in October means you’ll probably finish around dusk. Cantabrian weather also changes quickly, so bring a dry layer for afterwards.

An Asturian double

The Oviedo Half Marathon is the next morning at 11:00, about 30 km away. Racing both would be a lot. But if a friend is running Oviedo, you can run here on Saturday and spend Sunday cheering and eating well.