Whitestone Weekend (and The Trail That Can't Be Whitestone @ Concord Park) presented by BK Graphics

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1200 Paint Rock Road, Kingston TN

Saturday, March 8th, 2025

📅 Date, Time, & Place

Saturday March 8, 2025, ROAD RACE STARTS AT 8:00am at the Whitestone Inn on Watts Bar Lake.

Important: TRAIL RACE has moved, NOW STARTS AT 8:00am at Concord Park on Northshore Drive.

🏃‍♂️ Course Description and Highlights

Road Course: USATF Road Certified TN16002MS. A lovely, rolling, scenic and rural course that runs through the countryside. Downhill start means uphill finish! This is a rural route and runners should be aware that there are some unleashed dogs along the course. This is NOT a walker-friendly course. The course time limit for the road race is 4.5 hours and will be strictly enforced. NO EXCEPTIONS. The road course is open to traffic. There will be 4 aid stations that runners will pass 7 times in total, each will have water, Gatorade, and Gu.
Trail Course AT CONCORD PARK: The trail course is almost all off-road, with just a few brief touches on asphalt at the aid station. It will be a three-loop course (or only one if you’re doing the 10k) with plenty of ascending and descending, a few blown down trees to negotiate, with views of Sinking Creek, off of the Tennessee River. It will be approximately 30k in total length with around 500' of elevation gain per loop (so 1500' if you’re doing the whole 30k). The course time limit for the trail race is 5¼ hours.

🏨 Lodging

For reservations at one of the Whitestone Inn's 20 beautiful rooms, call (888) 247-2464 or go to www.whitestoneinn.com (Book early!). Runners receive a 25% discount on the room rate if you mention you are running KTC's Whitestone races.

💵 Registration & Entry Fee

Please note pricing structure: Only one coupon (in addition to the KTC Discount) may be used for this event. This pricing structure is in place to cover event costs. We appreciate your support of this decision as KTC Staff and Organizers want to continue this event in the future. Questions? Please contact KTC at info@:ktc.org.

30k Registration Fee: $55 through February 9.
10k/12k Registration Fee: $30 PER RUNNER.
Late Registration: $60 from February 10 through March 8 and $35 PER RUNNER for the 10k/12k.
No t-shirt: Deduct $5 anytime.

NO RACE DAY REGISTRATION. NO EXCEPTIONS. Registration closes at 5:00pm on Friday March 7. No refunds and no bib transfers. Packet Pickup will be Saturday March 8, 6:30 AM - 7:45 AM, at either the Whitestone Inn (ROAD) or Concord Park (TRAIL).

🎽 Shirts

Runners will receive a running singlet. Singlets will be gender specific. Please note our shirt policy: Anyone registering after February 21 at 10:00 AM will receive shirts while supplies last. When the inventory runs out in the RunSignUp system then there will be no more shirts. No re-orders.

🤝 Volunteering

We value volunteerism highly. Runners can take their participation in the KTC TTT series to the next level by volunteering! Not only does the success of each race depend on our great community of volunteers, but volunteerism is required for placement in the esteemed Grand Prix Rankings. In order to qualify for a Grand Prix award, runners must also volunteer for a minimum of 3 events.

Each race has opportunities for both folks running in the event and those preferring to provide support during the race. Volunteer positions can be found and selected on the respective race page on Runsignup.com. No experience is necessary and one might argue that volunteering is more fun than running.

🏆 Awards

Awards to the top 3 Overall, age groups, and specialty categories. Top Masters (As defined by fastest person age 40 and above, not limited to 40-49) Grandmasters (As defined by fastest person age 50 and above, not limited to 50-59), Senior Grandmasters (As defined by fastest person age 60 and above, not limited to 60-69) male and female. Awards not picked up on race day will be donated and will not be shipped.

🎉 Post Race Celebration

Awards for the road race will be presented inside the Whitestone Lion and Lamb building. Awards for the trail race will be in front of the Dog Park at Concord Park. Post-race snacks will be available.

❓ Questions

Email any questions to trail@:ktc.org or to Tony Owens (trail race director) tonyyikes@:gmail.com, or the KTC Events Manager at EventsManager@:ktc.org.

🚫 Race Etiquette

Due to insurance regulations, roller blades, strollers, bicycles, and dogs are not allowed on the course. The road course closes in 4.5 hours, the trail course in 5¼ hours.

✅ Results

Complete results will be available on RunSignUp shortly after the race.

🚨 Safety Policy Clarification

Our primary goal is to keep everybody safe. We’ve had some interest by younger folks in running the longer races, and we're all over that idea, but we are also concerned about their safety. If a runner is under 12 years old, he or she will need to be accompanied by an adult in order to run the adult race. Also, and this is less of a safety concern and more of a concern for the welfare of our volunteers: We’ll need to enforce the 18:00/mile minimum pace. This has been our policy all along but we’ve gotten a little lax and this keeps our volunteers in the woods far longer than they should have to be. Moving forward, each race will have a sweeper, and runners will need to be moving at greater than an 18:00/mile pace to stay in the race. Don’t get caught by the sweep!