2025 Hell's Half Acre Marathon, Half Marthon, 10K, & 5K

🏃‍♂️Event Details and Schedule

9th Annual Cox Running Club Hell's Half Acre Full Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K, & 5K

Saturday, July 19, 2025 (through Sunday, July 20, 2025)

Location: Trinity Park Pavilion #3
2401 University Dr
Fort Worth, TX 76107

(click on Google Map for exact location & to get driving directions)

🏅Course Information

5K & 10K Course: out-and-back

https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/6142721902/

Half Marathon & Full Marathon: 3.275 mile loop

https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/6091596799/

• Half Marathon: 4 Laps
• Full Marathon: 8 Laps

🕒Starting Times

• 5K (3.1 Miles): 7:30 PM
• 10K (6.2 Miles): 7:30 PM
• Half Marathon (13.1 Miles): 10:00 PM
• Full Marathon (26.2 Miles): 10:00 PM

Race day packet pickup begins at 6:00 PM at race site.

💲Cost

Due to permits, etc. this race is limited to 1,000 participants total for the 5K & 10K! The cap for the Half Marathon & Full Marathon is 500 participants. Pricing is on a "tier" basis. The earlier you get in, the less you pay!

🟢10K/5K Pricing

• Tier 1: $35 (first 250 10K/5K runners)
• Tier 2: $40 (next 250 10K/5K runners)
• Tier 3: $45 (final 500 10K/5K runners)

All participants will receive Custom Finishers Acrylics. Shirts are Unisex Technical Fabric. (NOTE: Race shirt size & availability only guaranteed for pre-registered participants.)

🏆Half Marathon/Full Marathon Pricing

• Tier 1: $80 (first 150 Half Marathoners/Full Marathoners)
• Tier 2: $90 (next 150 Half Marathoners/Full Marathoners)
• Tier 3: $100 (next 150 Half Marathoners/Full Marathoners)
• Tier 4: $110 (final 50 Half Marathoners/Full Marathoners)

🔄Full Marathon Two-Person Relay

• Relay Fee: $120

Each participant runs four of the 3.275 mile laps (Half Marathon/13.1 Miles) and will receive a shirt, finisher's medal, and a great workout. The relay partners will alternate laps (5K interval training) while carrying the chip-baton. All participants will receive Custom 5 Inch Finishers Medals. Register by July 9th for a personalized bib.

📦Packet Pick-Up

Packet Pick-Up is RACE DAY ONLY at the Race Site.

Date: Saturday, July 19, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:45 PM

🏅Awards

10K/5K

• Overall Male & Female: Awards for first place
• Masters Male & Female: Awards for first place
• Top 3 Age Groups: 12 and under, 13-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80 & Over

Full Marathon/Half Marathon

• Overall Male & Female: Awards for first place
• Masters Male & Female Winner: Awards for first place
• Grand Masters Male & Female Winner: Awards for first place
• Top 3 Age Groups: 19 & Under, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70 & Over

Full Marathon Two-Person Relay

• Top 3 Teams Overall: Awards for first place

Results will be chip-timed by COX RACING SERVICES.

🎉Join Us!

The Cox Running Club is organizing our annual Hell’s Half Acre Full Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K, & 5K!

Come join us to see old friends and make new ones. Runners and race walkers from all over the community are welcome to come out and participate in the Cox Running Club events. Come on out and bring your family and friends to run, walk, and enjoy our entertainment. Come to run and stay for the fun!

📜History of Hell's Half Acre

History of a portion of Fort Worth also known as Hell’s Half Acre: In which is now home of the Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth City Hall, Omni Fort Worth, Fort Worth Water Gardens, and Sheraton Hotel.

Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived. Fort Worth, Texas, claims its own legend – Hell’s Half Acre, a rough and rowdy precinct of Fort Worth, Texas originating during the early to mid-1870s in the Old Wild West.

The half-acre block was originally designated from tenth street to fifteenth street while intersecting with Houston street, Main Street, and Rusk Street with Throckmorton and Calhoun Streets established as boundaries. The Chisholm Trail and Texas and Pacific Railway were branded as the economic driving force leading to the progressive development of the rambunctious red-light district.

Hell's Half Acre consisted of boarding houses, brothels, gambling parlors, hotels, saloons, and a sparse assortment of mercantile businesses. The twenty-two thousand square foot ward caught the glimpse of such Old West personalities as Bat Masterson, Butch Cassidy, Doc Holliday, Etta Place, Luke Short, Sam Bass, Sundance Kid, and Wyatt Earp.

A 1906 newspaper headline calling the district Fort Worth's den of sin and refuge of criminals was representative of periodic efforts to clean up the district. These efforts proved unsuccessful until Army officials at Camp Bowie, established here during World War I, helped local officials shut the district down. By 1919, Fort Worth's "Third Ward" was disavowed as a den of iniquity due to the law enforcement efforts of Jim Courtright and the Protestant orations of John Franklyn Norris.