Links to Running Sites of Interest
Area Running Clubs & Race Management
Our neighbor to the west in the 'Science City', sponsors of several races each year, including the Crossroads Women's 5k and the Oak Ridge Half-Marathon. They also assist the KTC with the Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon and the Youth Athletics summer track program. This site has map links to the extensive Oak Ridge greenway system.
A good neighbor club in Maryville/Alcoa TN. They have the wonderful fortune to live astride a most excellent Greenway which snakes almost nine miles through both towns in both rural and city environs. The club puts on several good races during the year and have a strong bike component as well.
One of the best little running clubs in the country, the SFTC has staged some of the best races in the southeast, including the Crazy Eights 8K, site of the 1996 world record run by Kenyan Peter Mwan Githuka. Their "Running Diary" function allows runners to store their runs and times in the club database. The times can then be shared/compared with others. The database has received entries from all around the country.
Our neighbors 90 miles to the south, these folks have staged for more than thirty years one of the best 15K races around, the Chickamauga Chase. They put on a very good race schedule throughout the year.
Located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the Roadkill Running Club is a group of individuals whose mission is to promote running, walking and general fitness as lifelong endeavors thorough activities and events that promote the pure enjoyment of the sport.
Many KTC members are also GKTC members and very much enjoy participating in triathlons.
The guys who stage every major triathlon in the Knoxville vicinity and beyond.
Full race management services available throughout the region.
Running Publications and Other Websites
Daily updates on the world of running. Comprehensive Runners World library with info on shoes, health, training, travel and much more. Daily interviews with luminaries from the running world.
An outstanding publication thought by some to be more for "the serious runner".
Running, health, travel, and training, race results and race event calendars.
A comprehensive listing of trails especially conducive to biking; many if not most beckon to trail runners as well. Maps direct you to trail sites.
Created and maintained by Belmont University coach Dave Milner, this is an active and oft-updated site with strong focus on middle and eastern Tennessee running, including track, road and cross country.
A national marketing organization and clearinghouse for major regional and specialized running magazines across the U.S., as well as race information.
A microsite from the leading running publication in the world, this website offers a look at innovative kids running programs from throughout the running world.
Another very good site full of news from the world of track & field.
A resource for greenways development and advocacy in our community, including a listing of greenways in Knoxville/Knox County, benefits of greenways and how to get a greenway in your neck of the woods.
A thorough compendium of information about running-related health and injury
issues, including extensive descriptions of common injuries and how to treat
them. His emphasis is on ways to prevent injuries. He also discusses running
shoes in depth.
The hardcore journal for devotees of the unending oval. The "bible of the sport since 1948".
From one of the foremost experts and proponents of running, Hal offers training programs, advice, books and even art on his website.
A real good site for both the injury prone and the injury preventer. Join the second group.
Road Runners Club of America. Find out what's happening with this grassroots organization of running clubs from all over the nation.
Contains a lot of basics, lots and lots of links, and a useful training log.
Online coaching software for those who haven't or don't want to read Jack Daniels' book.
LSA is a free web site that lists running, bicycling and multi-sport across the country. LSA offers advanced listing option, which permits race officials to edit club descriptions and contact information on-line. Administrators can update calendar and club listing from any computer at any time.
Constantly updated site displaying records for each age in all commonly contested distances on certified courses.
The Internet home of high school cross country and track & field.
A content-filled jumpoff point linking you to all kinds of running-related sites.
The first online running web site for the running community, launched in 1992.
CRK meets at various running locations throughout the Knoxville area. It's an opportunity to meet/train/fellowship with other runners in the area, make new friends and enjoy a great run along the way.