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Race Notes.
Training, timing, course intel and the occasional honest debrief. Written by the two people who set out the cones.
A six week plan for your first 5K
Three runs a week, no gym, no gadgets. The plan we hand to first-timers at packet pickup, with the one week most people get wrong.
Read the planHow chip timing actually works
No battery, no button, nothing to hand back. What the tag on your bib is really doing, and why chip time and gun time are different numbers.
Read the explainerWhere your entry fee actually goes
A 5K entry fee is not an abstraction. Here is a typical split of where it goes, and what lifts the share that reaches the cause.
Read the breakdownWhere to park for every Fort Worth start line
Panther Island, Trinity Park, Clearfork and Sundance Square, with the lot that fills first and the one nobody thinks of.
Read the guideWhy your first mile should feel too easy
The most common way to ruin a 5K happens in the first ninety seconds, and the fix costs you nothing but ego.
Read the postWhat 400 runners need from 20 volunteers
The staffing math behind a 5K, position by position, and why the water station is worth twice what anybody budgets for it.
Read the postFrom The Season
The horn
Mile one
November
The festival
Demo imagery.