Pocahontas Trail Festival 2023

Short review

Pocahontas Trail Fest
October 23, 2021

Racers receive

Professionally chipped time race
Live results
Custom PTF logoed tech shirt
Custom PTF Finishers medal
Free downloadable race photos
Post race celibration/food

RACE START TIMES

Marathon and Relay 8 am
1/2 Marathon 9 am
10k 845 am 

Race Venue:
Pocahontas State Park 10301 State Park Rd. Chesterfield, VA 23832

The race staging area will be located about 1 1/2 miles straight into the park on State Park Rd.  Once you pass the entrance building you continue straight, following "race parking" signs to the large pool parking lot.  Start, finish and staging will be located just beyond the back of the.  Registration, food and awards will be at shelter #2.

Packet Pickup options:
Early pickup: Date and Time TBD: 
Race Day: 10/23 Saturday 7-9am (Race morning) at the staging area at Pocahontas State Park Shelter #2 

Timing:
Your race number will have a timing chip on the back.  Please do not fold, remove the chip.  Race numbers should be attached so numerals are right side up. Your numbers should be visible during the entire event and placement on your shirt is best as this helps with tagging any photos to your result link.

Course info:
2020 offered a redesigned course. The original course was mostly fire roads throughout the park. Although beautiful, we always intended more of a trail event. With the building of some new hiking trails and a redesign of the course we feel we have a great course waiting for you. We have also tweaked a few miles from 2020 to even improve on the re-design.

The new course is a 2 loop course for the Marathon yet 1 loop for each of the 10k and 1/2 marathon adding more trail miles.  This will give you more picturesque views and a better trail race experience!  These new trails are very runnable with good footing most of the way.  This also allows us to offer better service at aid stations!
On-course aid: Aid stations will be approximately 3, 6, 9, 13, 16,19 and 22 miles. 

Bathrooms:

There will be indoor bathrooms available at the start/finish.

Relays:

Relays will run loops approximately 6.5 miles each.  This year all relay legs will begin and end at the Start/Finish area and race with the solo marathoners. Runner 1 and 3 will run loop A (Beaver Lake Loop) and runner 2 and 4 will run loop B (Findley Station, Coop and Trooper Loop)