Trash Panda

Chattanooga, TN

What’s a trash panda? It’s a fun term for a raccoon... because they sort of look like giant pandas (in their coloring) and they sort of look like red pandas (which sort of look like raccoons) and also, they like to dig through the trash. It’s also the slightly-bratty-but-still-kinda-cute little sister race to our perennial powerhouse, the Raccoon Mountain Marathon. In fact, if you ran ANY of the spring Raccoon Mountain races, and you run the Trash Panda, you get a third medal. Because anyone rad enough to hang out with us on the same mountain twice a year deserves some extra lovin’. We will be using only the trails that connect to Laurel Point. There will be some short road sections. The loops for most of the races will be roughly 4.5 miles long (obviously, if you’re doing the 5K, your loop will be shorter.) We’ll have an out-and-back section marked for each distance to get you to the appropriate mileage. The trail is technical in that there are roots and rocks, but it’s not particular