3x7 Ciudad de Palencia Half Marathon 2026

The name says it all. The 3x7 Ciudad de Palencia is built around a 7 km loop: one lap for the 7K, two for the 14K and three for the half marathon, which is RFEA-certified at 21.097 km. It’s a Saturday evening race, starting at 17:30 on 14 November 2026. It’s organised by Palencia’s municipal sports board with the local clubs Cuatro Cantones, Puentecillas, Corriendo por Palencia and RunvaSport, and the University of Valladolid’s Palencia campus.

A tune-up for Valencia

This is the unusual part. If you’re entered in the 2026 Valencia Marathon, three weeks later, you can run the Palencia half for free. Email your Valencia entry confirmation to runvasport@gmail.com and they’ll send you a code. It makes a good final long test before Valencia.

The course

The circuit is fully urban, on asphalt and flat:

• Start: Avenida Cardenal Cisneros.
• Finish: the athletics track at the Campo de la Juventud.
• Water: km 3.5, 10.5 and 17.5, once per lap in the half.

For 2026 Club Atletismo Cuatro Cantones and the local police redesigned parts of the loop to ease the bottlenecks of 2025. It now avoids the Plaza de Abilio Calderón, runs along Ignacio Martínez de Azcoitia and San Francisco onto the Calle Mayor, and uses wider streets around Gil de Fuentes and La Cestilla. The organisers say several of these streets have never been part of a race in the city before.

Places and services

Entry is capped at 2,000, including 1,000 for the half, and each distance has its own bib colour. Every runner gets a commemorative shirt, and half-marathon finishers get a medal. There are showers and changing rooms at the Campo de la Juventud, next to the start and finish, and a bag drop.

The 2025 edition was run in the rain, and nearly half the field came from outside the province. The programme also includes an Inclusive Kilometre, a 1,000 m race for all abilities, plus children’s activities.