Thanksgiving Day 5K/10K Turkey Trot Run/Walk in Belmont Shore

Turkey trots are becoming increasingly popular in California for Thanksgiving Day events and celebrating. While we've found many throughout several years, we have a hard time determining repeatability of such Thanksgiving events. This Long Beach - Belmont Shore Turkey Trot has a web site, which is a pretty good indication that it has been around and may continue in future years. When you see this post below, this is the information we gathered at the time we did our survey.  Please do not hesitate to update us as your events change or new Thanksgiving events exist.

Date:

Time: 8 a.m.

Location: Belmont Pool in Belmont Shore, just two blocks east of the Belmont Pier.

Cost: $25 by Nov. 7; $30/after; $35/cash-only race day; $10 extra to run both 5K & 10K races. Kids $10 by Nov. 7; $15/day of race

What you get: T-shirts to all runners and walkers, more than 250 holiday pies randomly awarded to finishing line participants, Red Bull, refreshments, bottled water from Nestle Waters. Pies include pumpkin and apple. Over 3,000 runners and walkers are expected. Proceeds benefit the 501c3 nonprofit Community Action Team (CAT).

START TIMES
Kids' 1/2-mile Wingding, 8 a.m.
NEW OPTION: walkers may begin (not timed), 8 a.m.
10K RUN/WALK, 8:30 a.m.
5K RUN/WALK, 9:30 a.m.

5K & 10K COURSE
The Start & Finish lines and parking are at the Belmont Olympic Pool, 1 Bennett Ave., Belmont Shore. The flat course heads toward Queen Mary and downtown Long Beach along the beach bike path. The turn-around for the 5K course is near the Junipero Ave. parking lot. The turn-around for the 10K course is near Shoreline Village.

FREE PARKING LOTS: More than 1,000 free parking spaces in the beach-front metered parking lots at the Belmont Pier (Termino Ave.), Belmont Pool (Bennett Ave.), Granada Ave., 54th Place and at La Verne Ave.

turkeytrot.us