Explore Your Limits 5k & 10k
Event summary
Participants can choose between two exciting race distances: the 5k, designed as an ideal introduction to trail running, and the more challenging 10k, which takes runners deeper into the beautiful IMBA-designed single track trails. The 5k course features a mix of trails, gravel roads, and asphalt, showcasing the park’s stunning landscapes, while the 10k offers a thrilling lollipop loop that promises to test your endurance. Whether you’re a walker or a runner, this event is the perfect way to kick off your racing season and experience the natural beauty of Explore Park. Join us for a day filled with fun, fitness, and a sense of community!
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Explore Your Limits 5k
Incl. $3.40 Fee & Technical Long Sleeve Shirt
This 5k course is a great mix of asphalt road, gravel road and trail.
Entries closed9:00 AM EST
$43.40
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Explore Your Limits 5k Virtual Run
VirtualIncl. $2.50 Fee & Technical Long Sleeve Shirt
This is a run anywhere option, that counts as one of the RNUTS qualifying races. In addition, you will get the race shirt until 1/30/24, after that, all registrants will get a Mountain Junkies LLC Socks or Hoo Rag (similar to a Buff).
Entries closed9:00 AM EST
$27.50
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Explore Your Limits 10k
Incl. $3.70 Fee & Technical Long Sleeve Shirt
This 10k course runs the 5k course and then continues on to the intermediate single track trails for a different 5k loop.
Entries closed9:00 AM EST
$48.70
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Explore Your Limits 10k Virtual Run
VirtualIncl. $2.50 Fee & Technical Long Sleeve Shirt
This is a run anywhere option, that counts as one of the RNUTS qualifying races. In addition, you will get the race shirt until 1/30/24, after that, all registrants will get a Mountain Junkies LLC Socks or Hoo Rag (similar to a Buff).
Entries closed9:00 AM EST
$27.50
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Explore Your Limits & RNUTS Bundle
Entries closed9:00 AM EST
Free
Organiser's description
The Explore Your Limits 5/10k was started in 2005 as the first annual trail run in the Roanoke Valley. Due to the 5k being a great race for people getting into trail running and the challenge of the 10k it has grown to be the largest event in the Roanoke Non Ultra Trail Series (RNUTS). This race is a way to showcase what this park has to offer and the miles of tight and twisty IMBA designed single track trails.
Course Description
The 5k is a great race to introduce runners to trail running. The race course will take runners through some of the trails and gravel roads of the Explore Park. The 5k is 1/3 trail and 2/3 gravel road and asphalt. The 10k continues on to the single track biking trails for the remainder of the race (a lollipop loop configuration). This is challenging course and a great way to start your racing season. Walkers Welcome.
5K Course:
The 5k course runs on some of the Historic Areas of the park, heading down the Palmers Pond Trail, then a left onto the Deer Run Trail, and a clockwise run on the Turkey Scratch Loop, along the River Walk, up the gravel road next to Slones Grist Mill and then doing a counter clockwise run of the Farmstead Loop, then running along Journeys End Trail, and finally, climbing up Old Salem Turnpike (Vomit Hill), and taking a left at the top of the hill and finishing at the Water Tower (near the entrance to the Yellow Trail).
Location
56 Roanoke River Parkway Road, Roanoke, 24014, VA, United States
Explore Your Limits 5k & 10k
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