Fisiosan 5K 2026: the fifth edition, five formats and two kilometres of sand

The Fisiosan 5K ran its fifth edition on Saturday 3 October 2026 on the seafront avenue of Playa Honda, with five formats that all started and finished on the Guacimeta esplanade. 176 runners were classified over the 5 km, the fastest in 16:58 and the fastest woman in 22:25, and the mixed-pair category ended with 21 classified duos. The full lists are in the Fisiosan 5K 2026 results; what follows is what the race looked like going in: the timetable, the five formats, the course and where the money went.

Entries had closed on 29 September at 23:59, four days before the race, with the qualifier the rules added: they ended that day «o hasta cupo de inscripciones», or when the entry limit was reached, and that limit appears in no public source: checked on 17 October 2026 on the organiser’s website, on San Bartolomé council’s and on the timekeeper’s. The only figure published by the council is from before the race, from 1 October, and speaks of more than 500 people expected, which is participation and not a cap.

The times, which are not the ones they look like

The entry platform announced the event start at 17:00, and that caught people out: at that hour the children’s races began, not the adult one.

Time	What starts
17:00	Children’s races, in four age groups
17:30	The 5K start, from age 12
17:35	The walk, all ages
18:30	Trophies for the running category
18:45	Handover of the cheque to CD UNINSU

Everything starts and finishes on the Guacimeta esplanade, the four children’s races included. The organisers asked everyone to be in the start area half an hour beforehand.

Five formats, and the press only counts two

The pieces the island’s media published mentioned 15 euros for adults and 10 for children. That was correct and incomplete. What could actually be entered was this:

• Fisiosan 5K: 15 euros, from age 12.
• Fisiosan 5K mixed pairs: 30 euros per pair.
• The walk, around 4 km: 15 euros, all ages.
• Children’s: 10 euros, up to age 11.
• Charity bib, without running: 10 euros.

The adult entry included a personalised bib and a shirt; the children’s one added a medal for everyone who finished.

The 2026 novelty: the fastest mixed pair

It was the one genuinely new thing this year and it appeared in no press release, only in the rules: a prize for the best mixed pair in the 5K, on a single condition, both had to cross the line together. It is a category that changes the race for whoever picks it, because it stops being run against the clock and starts being run at someone else’s pace. In the end 21 pairs were classified, and the winning pair came in on 45:24, which is 22:42 each.

There was a second thing nobody reported either: a «rincón de la calma», a quiet corner, staffed by therapists for children with special needs attending that day.

The route: two kilometres of it are sand

The 5K runs 2.5 km out along the avenue, from Guacimeta to Playa de la Concha, and comes back on an equivalent line of which around two kilometres run along the beach, entering at Playa del Curita and leaving at Playa de los Perros. The entry and exit points on the sand are signposted.

Half the return being beach is not a detail: it changes the shoes, the pace and how the times should be read. The walk, by contrast, touches no sand: it goes from Guacimeta to the Emmax restaurant and back along the avenue.

There are two aid stations, one at halfway and one at the start and finish, the latter with fruit.

Where the money goes

The 2026 beneficiary is CD UNINSU, a wheelchair hockey team from Lanzarote, recently founded, made up of young people with varying degrees of functional diversity. For several of them it is the only route they have to adapted sport on the island.

On how much reaches the club it is worth being exact, because not everyone tells it the same way. Several outlets have published that «todo lo recaudado», everything raised, goes to CD UNINSU. The official rules say something else: that «una parte proporcional de cada inscripción», a proportional part of each entry, goes to the club, and that the 10-euro charity bib goes to it «íntegramente», in full. What the race’s own document supports is that, and that is what we publish. The rules also provided for collection boxes at a stand on race day.

The previous years give a reference: in 2025 the race donated 3,180 euros to Saltamos las Barreras, and in 2024, 2,770 euros to Sentir TEA.

Bibs were collected on the Friday, and only on the Friday

Friday 2 October, ground floor of the Deiland shopping centre, 11:00 to 18:00. The entry confirmation or an ID was needed, and someone else could collect it with the right documents. The rules made no provision for collection on race day, so anyone who could not go on the Friday had to send somebody.

What the 2025 edition left

The fourth edition, on 4 October 2025, drew 560 participants across the three formats, from two-year-olds to an 86-year-old walker. The fastest 5K time was 16:40 and the fastest women’s time 24:03.

We do not give the podium names here, for the usual reason in this house: the 5K admits runners from age 12 and its results publish neither age nor category, so there is no way to know whether any of those finishers was under 18. The times are public and checkable; the names are with the outlet that published them.

The race is organised by the Fisiosan physiotherapy centre and the sports department of San Bartolomé council, with Cronoline Eventos handling technical direction and timing.