The Christmas Cracker 10K starts on Weston beach by the Grand Pier at 11am on Sunday 13 December. Entry is £18 or £20 and closes 11 December, none on the day.

The Weston Christmas Cracker 10K is on Sunday 13 December 2026 at 11am, starting on the beach by the Grand Pier, with a junior race at 10am. Entry costs £18 for affiliated runners and £20 for everyone else, and there are no entries on the day.

Overview

  • 10K: Sunday 13 December, 11am. £18 affiliated, £20 unaffiliated. Minimum age 16.
  • Mini Christmas Cracker: Sunday 13 December, 10am, about a mile on the beach. £3.
  • Entries close: 11 December, and the junior race closes at 5pm that day or sooner if it fills.
  • Race HQ: the Royal Hotel, about a 20-minute walk from the beach start.
  • Fancy dress: encouraged, but no tinsel.

Weston Athletic Club organises the race, now in its 38th year, and calls it its largest. “All standards of runner take part,” the club says on its entry page. Weston Hospicecare is the race charity.

The 10K course and what you get

The club describes an approximate 10K, flat, on tarmac and beach, so it says it is not suitable for wheelchairs. It promises chip timing, a lead car, a race clock, distance markers, marshals, first aid and a water station at the finish. Every finisher gets a medal, and there are individual and team fancy dress prizes alongside the age-group prizes.

Race numbers are collected from the Royal Hotel on race day, and the hotel also has supervised kit storage, at your own risk, and refreshments. Visit Weston’s listing says to allow about 20 minutes to walk from Race HQ to the start (Visit Weston). Free race photographs are promised afterwards.

The Mini Christmas Cracker

The junior race starts at 10am, about a mile entirely on the beach, with chip timing and a medal for every finisher. There is one race, with prizes split between primary age (Reception to Year 6) and secondary age (Years 7 to 11). Entry is £3 and closes at 5pm on 11 December 2026, or earlier if the limit is reached. Tinsel is banned on the beach here too (Mini Christmas Cracker entry).

Running for the hospice

Weston Hospicecare has a limited number of charity places for people who want to fundraise, and asks runners to get in touch through its Christmas Cracker page.

Watching, and parking

You do not need a ticket to watch, and Visit Weston suggests coming down to cheer. The club’s entry pages do not mention road closures or race parking. Seafront car parks and their tariffs are on our parking page, and anything else booked that weekend is on our roadworks and travel page.

The Vee Dubs Christmas Cruz passes the Grand Pier that evening, so you could stay on for it: see our Christmas Cruz page. For the rest of the month, see What’s On in North Somerset.

Still to be confirmed

Weston AC’s own race page would not load for us on 5 November, so these details come from its entry pages on RaceNation. Junior race number collection will be announced nearer the time. We will update this page in race week.