An evening 10K on a route with more paved sections and overlooks than the Morning 10K, timed so most finishers cross the line as evening light hits the canyon.
Per the organizer's course-description document: Start/Finish (Potter's Knoll) - Loop Trail - Towers Tunnel Overlook - Overlook Trail - Clinchfield Overlook - back out via Overlook Trail to State Line Overlook - Geological Trail - Laurel Branch Trail - Grassy Overlook Trail/Grassy Overlook - Campground B Trail - Commission Road - Pool Drive - Laurel Branch Trail - Commission Road - finish. CONFLICT, not resolved: a separate auto-generated "Start Times" widget on the UltraSignup registration page lists this course's start as 9:00 AM, contradicting the 5:30 PM start given identically and independently three times elsewhere (swvarunning.com, breakspark.com, and the top of the same UltraSignup page's own prose). This file uses 5:30 PM as the higher-confidence figure; see _meta.notes.
A four-distance trail race (Morning 10K, Sunset 10K, Double 10K, and 50K) held entirely within the Virginia side of Breaks Interstate Park, a five-mile gorge cut by the Russell Fork River known locally as the "Grand Canyon of the South." All four distances start and finish at the same venue near Potter's Knoll. The 50K uses every trail on the Virginia side of the park.
Inaugural running is September 12, 2026. Founded by Southwest Virginia Running co-race-directors Melissa Londry and Alyx Barnett after Barnett, a competitive distance runner who had run the Arizona Grand Canyon's Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim for over a decade, moved to nearby Damascus, VA in 2023 and discovered Breaks Interstate Park in 2024. Following their Woodbooger 100 launch in Norton, the pair chose Breaks as the site of what they describe as SWVA Running's first 100-percent-singletrack, all-trail race experience. The organizer's stated intent is to expand the event in 2027 with additional distance options.
| Mile | Station | Cutoff | Crew | Bag | Pacer | Med | To next |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.00 | Start (Potter's Knoll) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 6.21 |
| 6.21 | Finish (Potter's Knoll) | 8:00pm | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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