What is the cutoff time for the 50K course?

The overall time limit for the 50K course is 11 hours from the start. One 11 hour finish limit, no stop cutoffs. The race says it exists so runners finish before dark and so the timing equipment can be picked up, and that it will not sweep the course or pull anyone who runs over.

Ultras · US · TN

Taco Bell 50K Knoxville

Registration open

Registration closes Wed, Feb 24 at 11:59 PM ET.

Race dateFebruary 27, 2027

Start8:30am

Whenin 126 days

Who's going to Taco Bell 50K Knoxville?

I'm running itPlan your weeks and your aid station times I'm crewingWhen to leave, where to park, at every stop I'm pacing or cheeringAsk your runner for their Out Here link

Free. You can start with nothing.

Official website Entry Aid stations Notify me if this race changes

Free, and always will be. NavRun makes money from race-day planning for runners who want it, never from this. Ultras change constantly, sometimes the morning of. Always confirm with the race director and the official website before you rely on anything here.

Distance From the name

50K The race calls this course “50K” and hasn't published a measured distance. Trail courses often run long.

Climb

not checked yet

Descent

not checked yet

High point

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Time limit The race

11:00:00

Aid stations

Started

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Finished

not checked yet

Finish rate

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The course

Where it goes loop · 9 aid stations

Seven Taco Bells in Knoxville, visited on foot in order, starting and finishing at The Long Run's Pace House on Sutherland Ave. Runners order and eat at every stop and have 11 hours.

Open to traffic with multiple road crossings and some stretches with little to no shoulder, notably Middlebrook Pike near Weisgarber and near Ed Shouse, where there is no sidewalk. Use sidewalks and greenways where available, cross at pedestrian crosswalks, run against traffic. The first two stops get very busy, and the race notes the 2026 fastest runners reached stop 2 before it opened.

The race

What this one is

A deliberately silly 50K around Knoxville, Tennessee: run from The Long Run's Pace House to seven Taco Bells in order, order something at every stop, eat it there, and be back inside 11 hours. Entry is $15, everyone gets a medal, and the course is open to traffic and unmarked.

Run in 2026 with a 50K and a virtual 50k; the 2027 page says there is no virtual option.

Getting in

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

Lottery: not checked yet

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup ultrasignup.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: not checked yet

Deferrals: not checked yet

Crew access, pacers and drop bags

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Crew allowed: not checked yet

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: not checked yet

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: not checked yet

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: Unmarked ultrasignup.com

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: not checked yet

Pacer rules: not checked yet

Drop bag rules: not checked yet

Cutoff philosophy: One 11 hour finish limit, no stop cutoffs. The race says it exists so runners finish before dark and so the timing equipment can be picked up, and that it will not sweep the course or pull anyone who runs over. ultrasignup.com

Aid stations

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race

Mile	Station	Cutoff	Crew access	Bag	Pacer	Med	To next
?	Start: The Long Run (Pace House) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Taco Bell #1 (7414 Kingston Pike) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Taco Bell #2 (8615 Walbrook Dr) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Taco Bell #3 (4413 Western Ave) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Taco Bell #4 (411 Merchant Dr) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Taco Bell #5 (4854 N Broadway) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Taco Bell #6 (2085 N Broadway) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Taco Bell #7 (1900 Cumberland Ave) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	Finish: The Long Run (Pace House) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?

What it looks like out there

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

One person has been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Social account

The Long Run 865

Social account

These are other people's work and we link straight to them. Watching costs nothing and needs no account. More of them: every race we hold, on film.

Add to this page

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

Which distance? Leave blank if it applies to the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Give it a short title: Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

What do you wish someone had told you? Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing. It only tells the next runner where this is coming from.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this note.

Website: Leave this field blank.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit.

This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.

Which detail? Optional. Filled in for you when you start from a specific line on the page.

What does the page say now? Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

What should it say? The corrected value.

How do you know? Required. Where it came from: the race email, the runner manual, what you saw on the day.

A link that shows it: Optional.

Or a photo of it: Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, only so we can come back to you about this correction.

Which distance? Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send it over.

Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.

What does it show that the page cannot? Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this one.

Where is it? A YouTube link, a race report, a photo gallery, whatever it is.

What kind of thing is it?

Who made it? Optional, and we credit them on the page.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Have the GPX? Send us the link.

We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.

Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.

We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 80 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

20% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit
Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know
Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from
Got footage of this course? Send us the link
Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.
Anything else: [email protected]

Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.

Cutoffs move, races get postponed, lotteries open and close. We read the race's own sources and record where every fact came from. Put your email in and we will send you what changed, and where we read it.

No account, and nothing to cancel.

What happens to your email. Nothing else. I do not sell it, and I will not send you anything except this race changing. One click gets you out.

I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.