About the Pilgrim's Turkey Trot
The course starts and finishes at Pecan Acres Park on Thanksgiving morning. It is a road race through a park setting, flat enough for all kinds of paces, and the whole event benefits the local United Way. The atmosphere runs warm, given the holiday and the cause behind it.
Packet pickup happens the evening before at the county Chamber of Commerce on North Street. If you miss that window, pickup and registration are also available race morning at the park, starting well before the gun goes off.
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Pilgrim's Turkey Trot 2025 Results
Going by the 2025 results, this is a decent-sized field, and the spread of finish times is wide, so this is a mostly recreational race rather than one for club runners.
5K Results · 2025
475finishers
18:11winner
35:05median
1:10:01cutoff
Top 3: Barrett Hatton (18:11) · Reese Epper (18:16) · Alex Cabada (19:04)
The Pilgrim's Turkey Trot has been held every year since at least 2020. That is as far back as RunSignup's records for this race go, so it may well be older.
How we calculate these stats: RunSesh calculates these figures from the most recent published results of past editions, sourced from RunSignup. We show aggregates only: field size, winning and median times, and the cutoff. We never publish individual finisher tables. Last updated Oct 18, 2026.
Distances & Start Times
5K11/26/2026 08:30$35
1K11/26/2026 08:00Free
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