Tic-Tac-Toe Trail Party

🏞️ Race Overview

This race is a beginner friendly twist on the traditional trail run. It will be held at 1 North Adventure Trails in Blanchard. TTTTP is a different format than your traditional race. It's designed to make running fun by utilizing a game you’ve known since childhood....tic-tac-toe. You will be timed and your distance will be recorded but there will be no age groups and no overall winners. The goal is 3 O’s in a row but there will be other ways to win as well.

📜 The Rules

• Game of Skill or Chance: Each runner will compete in a game at the completion of each lap.
• Dice Rolling: The runner will roll a 6-sided die that has an equal number of X's and O's.
• Placement Decisions: If the player rolls an O, the player gets to decide where an O is placed on their tic-tac-toe bib. If a player rolls an X, the worker puts an X on the tic-tac-toe bib.
• Blocking Instructions: The course is always X, player is always O. Yes, they will be instructed to block you and no amount of begging on your part will dissuade them.

🏆 Ways to Win

• Three O’s in-a-row: 1st back with 3 O’s in a row and no X’s - $50.
• Tic-Tac-Toe: 1st back with a tic-tac-toe - $25.
• Four Corners: 1st back with 4 corners (4 O's in each corner) - $25.
• X of X's: 1st back with an X of X's - $25.

⏱️ Event Timing

This is a timed event. You will get a time for every 5-mile circuit. A circuit is 3 completed loops. If you do one circuit and then two extra 1-mile loops: you’ll get a time for the 4-mile circuit not the 6 miles. You must do another 4-mile circuit to get a time for 8 miles.

🧃 Aid Station

I don't think this will be a real technical course. However, the elevation is real, especially for this part of Louisiana! There will be an aid station at the Start/Finish area. While it won’t be a full-on "Ultra quality" aid station because this isn’t an Ultra: it will have more than you’d expect to find on a road course. I anticipate offering water at the turn-around point of each trail (the game table) but that table isn’t far from the start/finish so it won’t be a full on aid station. I’m also looking for volunteers for the game table and I am offering race credits to future events.

🎉 Finish Line Festivities

I’m thinking cake and ice cream at the finish. Also, it’s BYOB and if you do that, then BRDAB.

🎁 Giveaway

GIVEAWAY- YOU GET A BIB/NUTRITION BELT THAT SAYS "TIC-TAC-TOE TRAIL PARTY" ON IT!

🏅 Medals

THERE ARE MEDALS!

🔗 More Information

For more details about the race, please visit the Tic-Tac-Toe Trail Party page.