New Years Double

There’s something special about ending one year and beginning another in motion 🏃‍♀️🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏻

New Years Double gives you two days to celebrate how far you’ve come and take the next step toward wherever you want to go.

Choose a 5K, half marathon, or marathon. Race on New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, or both. Come for a personal milestone, a family tradition, or simply the fun of starting the year with people who get why running is a great way to celebrate.

What would you like your first finish of the new year to mean to you?

The calendar changes for everyone on January 1. How you choose to begin the year is entirely up to you.

At New Years Double, your goal might be a new distance, a faster finish, or simply starting the year by doing something good for yourself.

Run or walk a 5K. Take on a half marathon. Go after 26.2. Join us on New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, or both.

There’s no single right way to start the year, and no goal too big or too small to matter.

What goal would you like to bring to the start line?

Every experienced runner has a first race somewhere in their story.

They once wondered what to wear, whether they would finish and if everyone else knew something they didn’t.

Being new doesn’t mean you don’t belong. It means you’re learning.

Choose a manageable goal. Practice the basics. Read the race information. Ask the questions that are on your mind. Then arrive ready to experience something new.

The Active Joe community has room for first-timers, returning runners and people still figuring out what kind of runner they want to become.

What do you wish someone had told you before your first race?

🌴 Meet this year's New Years Double finisher medals! 🌴

Who says winter has to be cold?

This year, we're celebrating the 15th Anniversary of NYD by bringing a little sunshine to the finish line with a tropical-inspired medal that celebrates what New Years Double is all about: starting the year with adventure, friends, and a whole lot of fun.

Whether you're running one race, both days, chasing a PR, or simply kicking off the new year on your own terms, you'll earn a medal that's ready for vacation.

Because the best way to start a new year is with an adventure.

Registration is now open!

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Our gear isn’t built for one type of runner.
Because there isn’t just one.

11 sizes.
No labels.
No assumptions.

Just something that fits you, exactly as you are.
📸: Phil Salmeron

Run, walk, crawl, MOONWALK, smile, celebrate! However you get active at New Years Double, we're here for it and will support you. Imagine the finish line at our event just an hour north of Dallas where you will celebrate the end of 2026 and the start of 2027. Set your goals NOW, achieve them on 12/31, 1/1, or on both days with multiple distances and two days of races!

Our road race is a yearly tradition for so many, and we invite you to join us and find out why. Regardless of your goals, regardless of your pace, regardless of your activity level throughout the year, we are there for you at all The Active Joe races to support, encourage, and be there when you achieve big things at the finish line. We'll see you out there, because we are the average joes getting active!
📸: Phil Salmeron

There’s no one pace that belongs out here.

We celebrate all speeds
offer flexible cutoffs
and believe that if you finish, you’re a finisher—period.

However you move, you’re part of this.
📷: Phil Salmeron

Registration is OPEN. Come and join us as we end 2026 in an active way on December 31st and start the next year with the same intentions by taking on a January 1st race too.