Dirty South Trail Races

🏃‍♀️ Event Overview

DATE TIME PLACE: Sunday, December 7, 2025, 9:00 am. Kids Trail Mile race starts 8:30 am. Starts/finishes at Mead's Quarry, just south of Ijams Nature Center on Island Home Avenue, Knoxville TN 37920.

♻️ Sustainability

• Carpool: Help us make less of an impact on the environment! Link up with your friends and carpool if possible (our participant lists are public, take a look and see who you know that’s coming!).
• Transit: Meads Quarry has a stop on the Knoxville Area Transit Line 40! Check out their site, download their app, or utilize their bike and ride option!

🏞️ Course Description

• Distance: 13.1 mile course traverses the Forks of the River Wildlife Area, William Hastie Park, Marie Myers Park, Ross Marble Quarry, Ijams Nature Center, and other haunts of the beautiful Urban Wilderness of South Knoxville.
• Terrain: A mix of rocky, technical single track and buffed out, flowing mountain bike trail.
• Time Limit: Course has a 4 hour time limit.
• Kids Race: Kids will run their own trail mile in the woods and are guaranteed to have a splendid time.

📍 Location

Mead's Quarry near Ijams Nature Center.

💰 Registration Fees

• Half Marathon and 10K: $40 to $60 depending on when you register.
• Students: $15.00 for students 14 and younger for either race anytime.
• Discount: $5.00 Knoxville Track Club discount.
• Kids Mile: Registration $7.00 anytime. Online registration available at www.ktc.org.

👕 T-Shirts

This year we'll print a special tech shirt (different from the series shirts) -- you’re guaranteed to love it!

📜 Special Note About Shirts

Anyone registering after November 12 will receive a shirt only while supplies last. The shirt order will be placed on November 12, and when the inventory runs out in the Runsignup system, no more shirts will be available: there will be no re-orders. Shirts not picked up will be donated. Shirts will not be held or mailed to participants.

🏆 TTT Series Awards

At the end of the 2025 trail race season, we will be awarding the top 3 in each division free race entries. We will announce the winners at the KTC Holiday Party in December. To qualify for series awards, 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 the Knoxville Track Club website: www.ktc.org, and 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 Stations: Aid and water stations will be provided, but in an effort to be greener, we urge all runners to carry their own water.
• Insect Stings: We also strongly recommend that anyone sensitive to insect stings or bites carry their own medication.
• Off-Road Training: We urge that everyone do some pre-race training offroad, as there is no substitute for experience.

⚖️ Safety Policy Clarification

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). We need to enforce the 18:00/mile minimum pace. Moving forward, each race will have a sweeper, and runners will need to be moving at a greater than an 18:00/mile pace to stay in the race.

📋 Bib Information

Don’t take a bib if you’re not running. If you have to drop out of the race, please let one of the race officials know so you are accounted for.

📞 Info for Running or Volunteering

Contact race director Tim Hill at timh160@gmail.com or call 865.548.4718 for more information. Volunteer info also available on Runsignup.com.

🌧️ KTC Safety Policy

The Knoxville Track Club puts the safety of its participants, spectators, staff and volunteers first. Weather forecasts will be monitored prior to the event, and necessary precautions will be taken to ensure the safety of all involved.

🔗 More Information

For additional details, visit the race page at here.