About the TROSA Turkey Trot 5K
The course starts and finishes on the campus of TROSA, a residential recovery program, and rolls through the surrounding Lakewood neighborhood. It is not flat, but the hills are manageable, and the neighborhood streets give it a genuine local feel. Cash prizes go to the top overall finishers, so there is real competition at the front, though the field runs the full range.
The evening before the race, bibs are available at Bull City Running Co. in downtown Durham. On race morning, pickup moves to the TROSA campus itself. Parking is off-site at a nearby corporate center, with shuttles running to the start. If you skip the shuttle, the walk to campus from the lot is a reasonable warm-up on its own.
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TROSA Turkey Trot 5K 2025 Results
Going by the 2025 results, this is a big 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
1,039finishers
15:28winner
33:56median
1:10:26cutoff
Top 3: Taylor Healy (15:28) · Connor Tyrrell (15:34) · Vinton Euler (15:36)
The TROSA Turkey Trot 5K has been held every year since at least 2021. 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 25, 2026.
Distances & Start Times
3.1 Miles11/26/2026 08:00$40
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