ZZ TROT

🏞️ Race Overview

Trail Racing Over Texas is excited to highlight yet another hidden gem of Texas with the Kreische Brewery and Monument Hill State Historic Site. This beautiful park sits high above the Colorado River with views overlooking the town of La Grange. This will serve as our backdrop to the start and finish of a very unique format of trail running and festival, much more family and spectator-friendly than your typical race. Kids can enjoy the brand new interactive playground and also partake in the free kids' event.

La Grange, in part made popular by the song of the same name by Texas' own ZZ Top, will also set the theme as we enjoy live music during and after the races.

🗺️ The Trail and Course

The park is comprised of wider pathways up top, grass areas, rocky single-track and double-track up and down the ravine, along with one section of stone stairs on an alternate part above the old brewery. You can expect around 500ft of gain/loss in the 5k event, around 250ft per mile on the outer loop. The 5k course will start with a shorter loop including the stair climb up to the historic homestead before following the outer trail loop so that we can highlight everything this park has to offer. Details of each event are provided below.

🏃‍♀️ Race Formats

Due to the smaller footprint of the park and singletrack, we have devised a unique format to allow better flow, safety, and mix up the typical way races are run. Participants can choose to compete in one, or all, of the events as either a runner/walker or ruck division. The day begins with individual time trial format loops, where runners will start solo at intervals and complete a single counter-clockwise 1mi loop, before we switch over to the reverse and complete the clockwise direction, as two separately recorded time trials. Once the time trials are complete, we will move to 5k waves, groups of like-paced individuals.

📋 Event Details

• Tush: 1 Mile Time Trial Format (counter-clockwise)
• La Grange: 1 Mile Time Trial Format (clockwise)
• The Sharp Dressed: 5 Kilometer (Waves)
• Tres Hombres Challenge: Includes entry to all three of the above events with individual event and aggregated time results
• Gimme All Your Runnin': Kids Run

⏱️ Guess Your Time Prediction Challenge

As part of your registration, you will be asked to guess your time. This information will be used both for seeding of start times and waves, in addition to prizes for the closest predictions in each event.

🔗 Race Registration

For more information and to register, visit the official race page: ZZ TROT Registration.