Notable Races
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.Notable Thanksgiving Day Races include...
- the Buffalo Turkey Trot, the oldest continually running public footrace in the United States;
- the Dallas Turkey Trot, with more than 25,000 racers annually;
- the Manchester Road Race held in Manchester, Connecticut;
- the Feaster Five Road Race in Andover, Massachusetts;
- the Berwick Run for the Diamonds, a nine mile race first run in 1908 in Berwick, Pennsylvania.
- the Concord Turkey Trot in Historic Concord, Massachusetts;
- the Dana Point Turkey Trot, in Dana Point, California
- the Run to Feed the Hungry, in Sacramento, California, was started in 2003 and attracts over 27,000 runners annually.
The Atlanta Marathon was historically run on Thanksgiving from 1963 to 2009, making it the longest (in terms of distance) turkey trots in the United States. It has since moved its date away from the Thanksgiving holiday.
Cuero, Texas features a unique twist on the tradition in which the participants are all actual domestic turkeys.
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