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Turkey Day 5K Thanksgiving Morning 2025

Join us in 2025 on Thanksgiving for your morning run among friends!

Our last event of the year is always a favorite among our community. Let’s celebrate Thanksgiving together before you head off for turkey.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the 2024 Turkey Day 5K

Our 2025 race will be open in the coming months for registration. Please check back!

  • Early Bird pricing & shirt guarantee end TBD
  • Start/Finish line and registration/check-in is at Forest Rose School, 739 College Ave., Lancaster
  • Packet pick-up begins at 7:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning
  • Race begins at 8:30 a.m.
  • Awards immediately follow the race

Congratulations to our 2024 Top Three Finishers

2024 TD5K Winners

Follow this link for more pictures from the 2024 TD5K.

Our race starts at Forest Rose School, down the bike path by Ohio University – Lancaster and Lancaster HS, around LHS’s sports complex and back up and around the Fairfield County Agricultural Society parking lot, and back down the hill to Forest Rose. See below for Nick’s GoPro of the course.

Turkey Day 5K Map
Turkey Day 5K Map

Running for a Cause

A portion of the proceeds from this race benefit patients in need of necessary medical care in Southeast Ohio. Click here to learn more about the FMC Foundation’s healing mission. 

Footage from the 2023 Turkey Day 5K submitted by Nicholas Henwood. Great job, Nick! (Nick placed 25th overall and was the 2nd 14-year old finisher.)