Overview The San Jose Half Marathon runs from Stevens Creek to a finish festival at Santana Row, passing the Municipal Rose Garden, the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and SAP Center on the way, with a Mariachi Mile and an optional detour through the bars of San Pedro Square at mile 8.5. Run Local produces the weekend. Alongside the half it runs an 8K that the organizers call the 408K, the Speed City Mile and a kids run, and Special Olympics Northern California is the beneficiary. The half course is certified by USA Track and Field and World Athletics. On site Race weekend lives at Santana Row, the open-air shopping and dining district, where the kids run goes off on the Saturday. The half starts on the Sunday morning at 7:30, after the national anthem, and its route takes in downtown, the Historic Alameda and San Pedro Square. A Speed City quarter-mile is timed along the course, runners must clear mile 6 by 9:10, and the finish closes three and a half hours after the start. The Finish Line Festival fills Santana Row with music, vendors and its restaurants. Finishers get a medal and an organic, fair-trade cotton shirt made with Known Supply. Audience Nine in ten runners come from the nine Bay Area counties, by Run Local's count. The Saturday is family day: in 2026 the youth program Game On, San Jose paid for 400 kids' entries into the kids run at Santana Row and launched an Adobe-sponsored app to keep them moving through the year. Runners who can't make race day can enter as Remote Runners. Track record 2026 was the 14th edition, with more than 5,200 participants across the half, 8K, mile and kids run. Brendan Gregg of West Sacramento won the half in 1:04:38, a new course record; Sarah Anderson of Folsom won the women's race in 1:15:39 and Tim Simon the non-binary division. Run Local gave the race a new logo for 2026, drawn by San Jose native Blake Dadson. Brand presence The 2026 partner roster ran from Fremont Bank, Zenni Optical, VillaSport, Running Warehouse and Runna to Bay FC, the San Jose Sharks, Mix 106.5 and Telemundo. Run Local sells presenting rights, sampling and on-site activation at the festival, and official offers pushed through its own channels, including a Wednesday newsletter and a Run Local retail shop. Its in-house team also shoots the photography and video and runs the social media around the race.