Part camp out, part race, all fun!
Run Amok is a Run Tennessee event, produced by the crazy kids at Run Chattanooga and Awesomesauce Events! Whether it’s your first half marathon, your first marathon, your first ultramarathon, or your fiftieth, we promise you’ll have a great time!
Location: Harrison Bay State Park Group Camp, 8411 Harrison Bay Rd, Harrison, TN 37341
Harrison is located just outside the Chattanooga city limits.
November 5-7, 2022
Distances available:
– 100 miles
– 100K
– 50 miles
– 50K
– Marathon
– Half Marathon (Saturday morning 8am, Sunday morning 9am)
– Super 10K (6.55 miles)
– 5K (Saturday or Sunday)
50(ish) hour time limit on ALL distances for Saturday morning races. 36(ish) time limit on Sunday morning races. If you are still on the course and close to finishing, we’ll stick around until you’re done. We are a WALKER-FRIENDLY event.
Your registration fee includes a hoodie sweatshirt for all distances half marathon or longer (t-shirt for the 10K, 5K, and one mile races), a wooden finisher’s medal for all distances, all the food you can eat from Friday night until the last runner finishes on Monday, the best support crew in the world, and a rocking good time! 100 mile finishers receive a belt buckle as well. A portion of every runner’s registration fee will be donated to Harrison Bay State Park to be used for maintenance and upgrades for the trail system within the park. The trails are available for FREE all year long!
COURSE INFORMATION
Harrison Bay State Park is the oldest park in the Tennessee State Park system, originally developed in the 1930s. The Run Amok course was developed in collaboration with Harrison Bay State Park ranger staff.
We use a mostly trail course, including packed dirt, technical sections with roots and rocks, crushed gravel, and grass. There are a couple of short road crossings and road sections (where you may opt to use the grass.) The course is best described as mostly gently rolling hills with one short steep hill (that feels like it gets longer and taller as the weekend goes on.) Much of the course is wide enough for runners to run two-across; some sections are wider and some are single track trail. Approximately 4 miles runs along Harrison Bay, on the dedicated trail.
The entire loop is 6.55 miles long, making it an even 2 loops for half marathoners, 4 for marathoners. 5K, 10K, 50K, 50 mile, 100K, and 100 miles runners will have a marked out-and-back section that will get their mileage up to the correct distance. This is not and will not be a certified course. The distance is correct. Please understand that when running under tree cover and near water, GPS can and has inaccurately measured this course. We have done the course while wearing and using multiple GPS devices at the same time and have come up with multiple distances, which is why we measure from the ground. Particularly if you use a phone app, you are much more likely to show a longer course. If your GPS reads long – we won’t charge you extra. If your GPS reads short, you’re welcome to keep running.
There is ONE aid station for each 6.55 mile lap – this is a change from previous years! The ONLY aid will be at the group camp dining hall. You need to be prepared to carry fluids and fuel for 6.55 miles.
AID STATION
If you’ve ever been to one of our events, you know we spare no expense at our aid stations. Since this race includes ultramarathon distance, our aid station is gigantic!
The aid station will be located at the group camp dining hall. You will pass by the aid station multiple times throughout the race. This means you’ll always know what’s going to be there, and if you want something specific, we have some time to cook it for you!
FLUIDS
The aid stations will have throughout the day and night: water, Gatorade, ginger ale, Coke, Mountain Dew, other sodas, coffee, hot chocolate, and chocolate milk (as well as non-dairy chocolate milk.) We’ll also have plenty of ice!
FOOD
Let’s be honest: we think ultramarathons are really just eating contests with some running thrown in. We also know that the food is what is going to keep you going during this race, so we will be prepared!
The following food will be available: oatmeal, bagels, potatoes, bananas, hard boiled eggs, a variety of candy bars, chocolate candy, gummy candy, hard candy, oranges, apples, grapes, fig newtons, various cookies, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, cold cut sandwiches, peanut butter crackers, trail mix, potato chips (in a variety of flavors), pretzels, raisins, dried fruit, tortilla wraps (hummus and kalamata olive wraps, bean and cheese burrito wraps, peanut butter and banana wraps), muffins, cupcakes, Pop Tarts, brownies, pudding cups, and of course energy gels. This is not an exhaustive list, and our race director will likely add more than this to the aid station tables.
After noon, you can expect to see the addition of quesadillas, soups (chicken noodle, vegetable, lentil, chicken and vegetable broth), pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches.
If you’ve ever finished a race and gotten nothing but a green banana and maybe some cold pizza, you’re in for a real treat! The aid station food is also your post-race buffet, and all runners going half marathon or further, your registration fee covers all you can eat, whether you’re running a half marathon or 100 miles. Wristbands that cover food for spectators, crew, and runners going less than the half marathon distance are available for purchase.
The aid station will also have a variety of medical aid products, including, but not limited to, Tums, Immodium-AD, Vaseline, salt tablets, band aids, medical tape, feminine products, baby wipes, and sunscreen. Please bring your own painkillers because we are NOT allowed to give them to you! Use them RESPONSIBLY.
Crews, pacers, and spectators may purchase wristbands for access to the aid station food and pre- and post-race food. Wristbands give access to all of the runner food including pre-race pasta dinner on Friday night, food all day on Saturday, food all day on Sunday, and on Monday until noon.
RACE WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Friday Night – 114/22
Packet pickup is from 5-8pm at the Group Camp Dining Hall. If you have reserved a bed in a cabin, you may check in as early as 3pm. Please do not come any earlier than that unless you are coming to help set up. You do NOT have to pick up your packet on Friday night.
Dinner will be served at the Dining Hall beginning at 6pm. Pasta with sauce (meat sauce and vegetarian sauces), bread, and dessert will be available. Water, Gatorade, and sweet tea will be available to drink.
The pre-race dinner is included for all race participants and paid pacers or spectators with wristbands.
Saturday – 11/5/22
Packet pickup begins at 6am at the Dining Hall. From that moment on, packets are always available for pickup. If you are running on Sunday, you can wait until Sunday to pick up your packet if you’d like.
If the lights are on in the Dining Hall, you are welcome to come in. In this case, if the lights are on, it usually means somebody is home. We’ll have coffee going and breakfast foods – Pop Tarts, granola bars, fruit, oatmeal, hard boiled eggs – out throughout the morning. Please don’t come into the kitchen unless you are a volunteer who is cooking.
Runners of any distance are invited to hang out all day at the group camp after finishing your race. You can cheer for your fellow runners as they finish. Runners going half marathon distance or further, as well as anyone with a wristband, are entitled to food all day long.
Lunch is served at about 12pm, and will include burgers and hot dogs (including veggie versions), potato chips, and desserts. If you are still running, other options will be available on demand.
Dinner is served at about 6pm, and will have a variety of options. We cook a full Thanksgiving/Friends-giving dinner on Saturday night, with plenty of vegetarian options!
A note about food: Please give our kitchen crew some grace when it comes to these times, because they are responsible for feeding a LOT of people, and there aren’t very many people who volunteer to work in the kitchen. Anyone actively running in the races will have first priority for food.
Also, if you REQUIRE a specific food (or it will make you insanely happy), BRING IT WITH YOU. We are at the mercy of what is available when we do our one large grocery shop a couple of days before the race. We are happy to give you space in our fridge or freezer to store anything that needs to be kept cold.
Sunday – 11/6/2022
Pancakes, eggs, and other breakfast foods will be available at the Dining Hall on Sunday at 8am. We’ll keep the food going until the last runner finishes! Yes, even if that last runner finishes on Monday.
Food will be available at the group camp dining hall all weekend. If the lights are on, you’re welcome to come in and grab something to eat! We ask that runners and spectators stay out of the kitchen area for safety reasons.
Time Limit
The time limit for the Saturday morning start races is 55-ish hours. Sunday morning runners have roughly 36 hours to complete the course. As long as you are upright and moving forward, we won’t tell you to stop. Walkers are welcome! We are notoriously back of the pack friendly and that’s not going to change. We love slowpokes! We even have our own club-within-a-club called the Sloth Society, for those of us who like to take our time.
Drop Bags
Drop bags will be allowed along the race course section that is within the group camp, and inside the dining hall. We’ll have most of what you’ll need on hand, but bring things like rain jackets, head lamps, favorite flavors of Gu, change of clothes, pain killers etc. You’re welcome to bring a chair to set up with your belongings if you’d like, put up a pop up canopy, a hammock, a bouncy house, the sky is the limit.
Please label all drop bags with your last name and your bib number.
Any drop bags or other items left at the group camp when the last person finishes will be discarded.
DUE TO INSURANCE LIMITATIONS, WE ARE NOT PERMITTED TO GIVE YOU PAIN KILLERS. We tell people this every year, and every year they ask us for them. We’re not kidding. We don’t bring them, because we like having insurance. BRING YOUR OWN.
Medical
There will be no medical checks before, during, or after the race. We have crew who are trained in CPR and basic first aid, and the amazing park rangers will assist if we need them. Each participant is responsible for knowing his or her own physical limitations.
If, in the opinion of the race director or assistant race directors, or the Harrison Bay State Park rangers, your physical or mental condition has endangered your safety and/or the safety of others, you will be withdrawn from the race. Don’t make us call the park rangers to have you removed from the property.
Let us help you through things BEFORE they become giant problems. We’ve got lots of tricks up our sleeves; we’ve helped lots of people go REALLY REALLY far. We’ve also had people stop for medical reasons, go to their cabin and sleep on some ice, and then come back and get back at it. There is NO reason to hurt yourself.
Crews and Pacers
Crews are welcome to assist you.
Pacers are allowed after you reach the 30 mile mark. Pacers are required to wear a pacer bib (which can be purchased at packet pickup) and sign a waiver, which gives them access to food and drink at the aid stations. Muling is allowed.
Crew members and pacers may NOT use bicycles to accompany or crew runners on the course at any time.
Timing
You are responsible for lap counting; see instructions above. You must check in with the timing table to receive a medal and a finish time. Runners who do not check in with the timing table when they finish will not receive a finish time.
You may drop down to a shorter distance mid-race and receive a finish time, or you may move up to a longer distance if you’re feeling good, but you MUST inform the main timing table staff at the start/finish. If you move up to a longer distance, you will be required to pay the difference before you will receive your medal and inclusion in the results.
You will not be able to find a trail half marathon, marathon, or ultramarathon in this area with this flat of an elevation profile. This race DOES meet all qualifications for Half Fanatics, Marathon Maniacs, and the 50 States Club, provided enough people are signed up at each distance to fulfill their minimums. This race is USATF sanctioned and is timed.
A portion of each runner’s registration fee will be donated to Harrison Bay State Park specifically earmarked for trail maintenance and upgrades.
Registration is extremely limited. Hoodie sizes are not guaranteed if you register after October 5th (but we’ll get you a hoodie in your size after the race if we run out!)