The Knoxville Track Club puts on the Whitestone 30k with a road and trail option. This was my second year running the trail event. It is a 6 mile loop … MORE
The Knoxville Track Club puts on the Whitestone 30k with a road and trail option. This was my second year running the trail event. It is a 6 mile loop ran 3 times. Well, sort of a loop…. The total ascent is around 2,600 ft.
It is held at the Whitestone resort, which means a large indoor area to stage from.
2023 was clear and starting temperature was low 40s, perfect running weather. KTC does an excellent job putting it on. And The World’s Best Aid station, put on by East Coast Adventures, was back and still holds it’s title. So nice to come upon such a lavish aid station in the middle of the woods, with enthusiastic workers.
Afterwards there is a nice breakfast and age group awards. Swag is a tank top, this is in addition to the regular annual tshirt for the trail running series.
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Trail 30k option is excellent
The Knoxville Track Club puts on the Whitestone 30k with a road and trail option. This was my second year running the trail event. It is a 6 mile loop … MORE
The Knoxville Track Club puts on the Whitestone 30k with a road and trail option. This was my second year running the trail event. It is a 6 mile loop ran 3 times. Well, sort of a loop…. The total ascent is around 2,600 ft.
It is held at the Whitestone resort, which means a large indoor area to stage from.
2023 was clear and starting temperature was low 40s, perfect running weather. KTC does an excellent job putting it on. And The World’s Best Aid station, put on by East Coast Adventures, was back and still holds it’s title. So nice to come upon such a lavish aid station in the middle of the woods, with enthusiastic workers.
Afterwards there is a nice breakfast and age group awards. Swag is a tank top, this is in addition to the regular annual tshirt for the trail running series.
The Trail Version was Fantastic
The Knoxville Track Club puts on two 30k races in one location at the same time - at Whitestone Inn with trail and road versions. I did the trail in … MORE
The Knoxville Track Club puts on two 30k races in one location at the same time – at Whitestone Inn with trail and road versions. I did the trail in 2022.
Course difficulty gets 5 sneaks – 3,000 ft ascent. The trail itself was a combination of old bulldozer paths and single track trail. The area got a lot of rain two days earlier but mud wasn’t a problem. We did a 6 mile loop 3 times. There was one aid station, and it is my favorite. On the one black top road in the forest, 4 guys set up a sound system and had a terrific array of beverages – vanilla beer is my new go to race hydration. They had cowbells and fist bumps and plenty of energy. Since it was on the stick section of one of the loop lollipops, we got to go by 6 times.
Course scenery is 5 sneaks – farmland with sheep, goats, and horses, forest, lakeside, and hilltop views. It helped that it was a brilliant winter day, 25 degrees at the start and high 40s by my finish, perfectly clear sky.
Production definitely 5 sneaks. Packet pick up and race center was in a Whitestone lodge. Course was well marked, pre race communication excellent, just the right amount of course monitors, and post race breakfast.
Race Swag was an orange tank, sort of an in club joke. Apparently 20 years ago they gave had the same orange tank but with white letters that became a club joke for the ugliest shirt – you must have had to have been there. This year they changed the letters to black, I love it. Great like wicking material, I will definitely use it. And, since this was part of the 2022 race series, it was on top of the one shirt that everyone gets for the whole series.
My performance, 4 sneaks. Wish I could have gone faster but given the circumstances it was OK.
This was an outstanding event. KTC knows how to do it.