Mountain Man Memorial March

Mountain Man Memorial March is held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, on April 10, 2027. Four distances share an 8 a.m. start: the full marathon (26.2 miles), the half marathon (13.1 miles), the 10K (6.2 miles) and the 5K (3.1 miles), so entrants of very different commitment levels move off at the same moment.

With the full and the half on the same clock, the day works for a group that wants one meeting point and four different afternoons. A marathon here calls for a sixteen-week build with a weekly long run and enough hill work to keep your legs honest late in the race. If the marathon is a step too far this spring, the half at the same start time gives you the atmosphere of the bigger event on roughly half the training load.