Is crew access allowed on the 50k course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 50k course. Crew access is allowed at the Goff Mtn. Rd. aid station only for 50k participants.

What is the cutoff time for the 50k course?

The overall time limit for the 50k course is 9 hours from the start. Runners have 9 hours. If it becomes clear that a runner cannot finish within the time limit, the race director may decide to pull them from the course.

Ultras · US · VA

Terrapin Mountain

50k · 31.1 miles

On the calendar

The date is set. Entry has not opened. Registration opens December 1, 2026.

Race dateMarch 20, 2027

Start7:00am

Whenin 155 days

First held2008

Who's going to Terrapin Mountain?

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 31.1 miles

Climb 7,000 ft

Descent 7,000 ft

High point not checked yet

Time limit 9:00:00

Aid stations 8

Started not checked yet

Finished not checked yet

Finish rate not checked yet

The course

Where it goes · 8 aid stations

The race

What this one is

For more than 17 years, the Terrapin Mountain 50k and Half-marathon races have established themselves as spring favorites for many runners. These races introduce runners to the trails around Terrapin Mtn, White Oak Ridge, Goff Mtn, and Hunting Creek. Part of the Lynchburg Ultra Series (50K) and the Blue Ridge Trail Series (Half-Marathon).

Founded either in 2008 or 2009. A 2009 VHTRC forum report describes the race as being in its second year and says the RD 'changed the course from a long marathon to a 50K this year,' implying an earlier marathon-distance edition. For years the race was directed by Clark Zealand: a 2010 VHTRC news post calls it 'Clark Zealand's Terrapin Mountain 50K,' and a runner's 2023 report still thanks 'Clark Zealand and all of the volunteers.' Photo credit on the 2009 report reads 'All Photos from eco-xsports.com,' tying the race to the eco-X Sports promotion group in that era. VHTRC's 2010 news post notes the course 'uses parts of the Hellgate 100K and Promise Land 50K courses' — all three are run within the same central-Virginia trail network. The 2020 edition was cancelled (Ultra Running Magazine's results table shows '03/21/20 Race Cancelled', consistent with COVID-era race cancellations that spring). Winding Way Run Co. (RD Brian Million) took over race direction; a March 2024 finisher's report explicitly calls that edition the 'inaugural year under new management by Winding Way Run Co.,' and the current VHTRC website (new.vhtrc.org/races) no longer lists Terrapin Mountain among its races. Winding Way added a companion Half-Marathon distance that also joined the new Blue Ridge Trail Series.

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 windingwayrunco.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: No windingwayrunco.com

Deferrals: No windingwayrunco.com

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Terrapin Mountain Nine hours.

You are running it

You reach Goff Mtn Rd., mile 9.4, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.

An arrival time for all 7 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are deciding

You find out Terrapin Mountain is months of work away, not years, and you enter.

Put in a race you have already run. NavRun shows you where this one sits from where you are.

No account needed →

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: Yes windingwayrunco.com

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: not checked yet

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Crew access is allowed at the Goff Mtn. Rd. aid station only for 50k participants. windingwayrunco.com

Pacer rules: not checked yet

Drop bag rules: not checked yet

Cutoff philosophy: Runners have 9 hours. If it becomes clear that a runner cannot finish within the time limit, the race director may decide to pull them from the course. windingwayrunco.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
4.10	Camping Gap	?	○	?	?	?	3.10
7.20	Hunting Creek	?	○	?	?	?	2.20
9.40	Goff Mtn Rd.	?	●	?	?	?	3.90
13.30	Hunting Creek	?	○	?	?	?	3.10
16.40	Camping Gap	?	○	?	?	?	5.70
22.10	Camping Gap	?	○	?	?	?	3.50
25.60	Terrapin Mtn Lane	2:15pm	○	?	?	?	5.50
31.10	Finish	4:00pm	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: Half-marathon (Half Marathon)

Other years: 2026

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

windingwayrunco

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: 65 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

23% 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
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.