This is one of the larger races in Murfreesboro. They offer a 5K and a 10K option. It is a pretty flat, fast course that you can definitely PR on. It falls a couple weeks before R&R Nashville, so a lot of people use the 10K as a training run for that. The course takes you mostly on the road along the greenway so there is a lot of room to weave around the walkers who start up front. When it go into the national park, Stones River National Battlefield, it does narrow but by then the crowd has thinned out. Everyone got a cotton t shirt, a medal, and a exercise towel. After the race they have a lot of local vendors handing out food and samples of their food (chicken sandwich, smoothies). Parking is at a large church (where packet pick up was) and close enough to walk/jog as a warm up to the race or they have buses to shuttle you over.

This is an out and back race course on a single road in the small town of Leipers Fork, TN. The course is basically one small (about 3% grade) hill, get to the top of the hill to the aid station and turn around and come back down. Like I said this a small town and you do run past an alpaca farm. There was plenty of parking in nearby fields with a short walk to the start. Registration included a t-shirt and a medal and there was packet pickup the day before at the local Fleet Feet.