Sharp's Ridge Rambler

🏃‍♂️ Race Details

DATE TIME PLACE: Saturday, June 7, 2025. 8:00 am. (Kids Race will start at 7:30 am.) Race will start and finish at Lincoln Park Technology and Trade Center, 535 Chickamauga Avenue, Knoxville TN 37917.

🏞️ Course Description

Four Mile Course:

• Start: Hanover Street into park.
• Route: Right on Lincoln around to Sharp Shin.
• Elevation: Sharp Shin to Push Line.
• Finish: Left on Lincoln and back to finish.

10k Course:

• Initial Path: Follow four mile course to Sharp Shin/Firebreak junction.
• Descent: Right along road to top of Tiberius.
• Loop: Follow oval loop clockwise, then turn back uphill.
• Final Stretch: Downhill finish on Hanover.

📍 Directions

Race staging area will be at Lincoln Park Technology and Trade Center, 535 Chickamauga Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917.

💵 Registration Fee

• Cost: $25.00 for preregistration.
• Discount: $15.00 for students 14 and younger.
• Online Registration: Available on Runsignup.com.
• Late Registration: $30.00. Kids Trail Mile $7.00 anytime.

🎟️ Special Series Registration Offers

Sign up online for 7 for $109 Season Pass, or Kids 7 for $29 Kids Pass bundle deals and SAVE BIG! 2025 Trail Series Bundle Expires June 1.

👶 Kids Trail Race

Kids will run a moderately hilly and truly fun course of about a mile, starting at 7:30. Start and finish at base of trailhead rather than at school, but race signup and staging area will be at Lincoln Park Technology and Trade Center at the adult race staging area.

👕 T-Shirts

Special limited edition T-shirts will be printed for the series. This is the same shirt as at all other Treadin’ Trodden Trails races: one shirt per runner PER SEASON please. Taking multiple shirts minimizes monies we are able to donate to trail friendly causes.

🏆 TTT Series Awards

This year we'll be awarding the top 3 in each division free race entries: 1st gets the full monty, all 12 races, 2nd gets the 9 race series, and 3rd gets entry into 6 races. Additionally we'll hold a drawing so that two lucky runners get a pair of shoes, thanks to the generous sponsorship of Runners Market. We’ll once again be presenting the awards at the annual KTC Holiday Party in December. Reminder, to qualify for series awards (and free shoes!), you'll need to be a member of KTC, and you will need to have volunteered two times during the course of the trail race season.

📊 Results

Results will be available on Runsignup.com.

⚖️ Course Etiquette

We reserve the right to disqualify anyone who exhibits unsportsmanlike conduct or is abusive to volunteers. Due to insurance regulations, no headsets, earphones, bicycles, baby strollers, roller blades or pets on the course.

🛑 Safety

Aid and water stations will be provided, but in an effort to be greener, we urge all runners to carry their own water, i.e., there will be only very small cups supplied at the aid stations. We also strongly recommend that anyone sensitive to insect stings or bites carry their own medication. Finally, we urge that everyone do some pre-race training off-road, as there is no substitute for experience. We want you to have a good time.

📜 Safety Policy Clarification

Our primary goal is to keep everybody safe out there in the woods. We've had some interest from younger folks in running the longer races, and we're all over that idea, but we are also concerned about their safety. For the remainder of the season (and moving forward), 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 (i.e. not the kids mile). Also, we’ll need to start enforcing the 18:00/mile minimum pace.

🚫 Don't Take a Bib if You're Not Running

This is safety-related - we want to make sure that everybody who starts the race stays safe. If you take a bib, we think you're running the race. Then when you don't show up at the finish, we have to try and track you down and make sure you're not lost in the woods or hurt. So please -- if you're not running the race, don't take a bib. Also, if you have to drop out of the race, please let one of the race officials know so you are accounted for.

🤝 Info for Volunteering

We love our volunteers! Please connect with us if you'd like to volunteer (trails@ktc.org), and you can find openings at the "Volunteer" link above.

🌦️ KTC Safety Policy

The Knoxville Track Club Board of Directors has approved an Event Safety Policy, viewable here: Weather Policy. Please familiarize yourself with it.