The Tater Trot

The Tater Trot is held in Benton, Kentucky, on April 3, 2027. One format is on the schedule, a 5K (3.1 miles), starting at 7:30 a.m. A single early gun keeps the event compact, with the whole field away together and finished well before mid-morning.

Small-town Kentucky road races like this one tend to attract a mixed field, which is part of the appeal if you are running your first 5K and would rather not line up among club runners in singlets. If you are chasing a time, the early start means arriving with enough margin to jog easily for ten or fifteen minutes and run a few strides beforehand. Training is simple at this distance: run three or four times a week, add one session of short repetitions at a pace a little quicker than goal, and hold something back for the final mile.