2017 EN Turkey Trot Challenge - Who's In?

Brenda Ross · November 15, 2017 10:49AM

Welcome to the 2016 Endurance Nation Turkey Trot Challenge! The goal is to have fun, stay fit, and keep one another motivated. You need to officially register for the challenge by midnight on Wednesday, November 22nd.

How It Works

Participating members will register online, identify the distance of the race that they have chosen, and enter an estimated finishing time. While everyone's a winner in this challenge, only one of you can do the closest to your predicted finishing time!

That’s Right – You submit your predicted finishing time BEFORE the race happens. S/he who comes the closest, wins!

If you don’t have a road race or similar event available in your town, it's okay to run your own Turkey Trot.

Please Note: All participants must provide a link presented as verification after the event, which is put in the registration spreadsheet.

Step One: Register online HERE

Step Two: Visit this forum before and talk great amounts of smack. Pinky promise not to sandbag your performance by picking an easy time that you can hold the pace of. Here's a calculator that can help you out.

Step Three: Run your race with your GPS watch, making sure to flash the Endurance Nation gang sign at the finish line. Primal scream optional.

Step Four: Return to the registration sheet and enter your official finish time in the space provided next to your name. A winner will be announced on Monday, November 27th.

Peter Noyes · November 15, 2017 6:14PM

Alright, I threw down the gauntlet for myself. I am going to attempt to PR my local Turkey Trot. It is a 3 mile race (a bit shy of 5K). The twist is that the it is an out and back where the out has a 150 ft of climbing and the back is all downhill. Historically I have blown up on the out and limped back in for a subpar finish. This time around the plan is to race by power using Stryd so that I flatten the course.

Jeff Horn · November 16, 2017 2:55AM

Great idea for a contest. Still not sure if I'm traveling or not.

Alicia Chase · November 20, 2017 2:40PM

What if I have to do a solo turkey trot? I’ll be traveling and staying with my brother, and while there is a local turkey trot that I’ve done a couple of times while there, I’m the head cook this year, so I’m not sure if I can pull off disappearing for a couple of hours Thanksgiving morning. I could map out a 5k from my brothers and run that, though traffic will make it tough to predict a time. Could I submit my Strava file if I am able to pull this off?

Brenda Ross · November 20, 2017 4:43PM

@Alicia Chase - yup, that sounds good for sure.

Tim Sullivan · November 20, 2017 8:11PM

I'm in for a 5 mile race. I'm already thinking that my estimated time is too fast! but hopefully not. I'll do my best

David Holmes · November 21, 2017 9:51PM

I’m in for the 10k on 30A in Rosemary Beach Fl. Plan on doing it in 1:16

Paul Hough · November 22, 2017 2:51AM

@David Holmes, I will be in the vicinity but I'm not getting to Panama City until late Wed night. A 7:30am 10K the next morning on 30A is a bit too early. I'm sleeping in for once! Good luck in your race.

Tim Sullivan · November 24, 2017 9:29PM

Wow. Thought I estimated a time that would be hard to make. I was wrong

New vdot of 50!

Patricia Rosen · November 26, 2017 4:43PM

Darn! I wish I'd seen this! I did well on Turkey Trot testing my legs after injury. 5 miles at 43:36 with pace of 8:43min/mile. 5th in age group which is typical except for two foreigners (not from Austin) ahead of me and my two running buddies who are always just a bit faster than me! looking forward to aging up! but I would have been second in that age group! Fast chicks!

Patricia Rosen · November 26, 2017 4:47PM

I love the way they did the electronics! got my results while walking to my car!

Al Truscott · November 26, 2017 6:16PM

@Patricia Rosen You think you have it bad. I had to race against this lady...my same age, she beats me by 2 seconds on the uphill finish. She's about 4'10", and cant go downhill as fast as me, but up...
https://www.runnersworld.com/masters/age-group-ace-jane-treleven-thrives-on-quality-over-quantity

Patricia Rosen · November 26, 2017 6:35PM

wow! she's amazing! but then so are you!

Brenda Ross · November 27, 2017 5:55PM

Congratulations on winning the challenge Al. 4 seconds faster than your predicted time.

Patricia Rosen · November 27, 2017 7:09PM

Hey! good job, Al!

scott dinhofer · November 27, 2017 7:40PM

Glad I didn't do this challenge, I would have written down a 8:15 mile and stuck to it, instead i ran a "backed off" 7:17 pace for a 5k run

2017 EN Turkey Trot Challenge - Who's In?

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