Race Description
Please join us Saturday, May 17th 2025 for 5k-ish and 10k-ish trail running events on the beautiful single track trails at Sunderbruch Park in Davenport, Iowa presented by the Quad Cities Trail & Ultra Runners - (QC-TUR) and Sun Trail Running!
Low registration fee covers the basics for the race, on course and start/finish aid, a piece of custom race swag, an awesome post race potluck with a ton of free bacon and craft beer and a guaranteed donation to Friends of Off Road Cycling (FORC) who are the awesome mountain bikers that built and maintain the beautiful trails at Sunderbruch.
We are a cup-free race!
This means that you should carry fluids on you or at least bring means of filling up from the aid stations on course if needed. It also means that you should bring your favorite drinking vessel for post-race refreshments. An easy solution for this is keeping handy the B&B mug everyone gets as part of registration!
We'll also have a limited supply of nice collapsible silicone cups that are easy to stash and run with on sale at packet pickup Friday PM & Saturday AM.
Course Details
Distances will be measured but more than likely won't be exactly 5k/10k. No whining. B&B is about having fun, enjoying the trails & the company of your fellow trail runners and partaking in some delicious bacon & beer!
The ~5k will mostly follow the green and some of the blue MTB trails and will be pretty flat with just rolling little inclines. The ~10k will cover a mixture of dirt trails within the park and will include some quick sharp descents and climbs mixed with some more technical sections. The ~10k course has evolved from year to year to provide the most fun, challenging and rewarding route possible for runners so expect some variation from year to year! The course is usually about 90% dirt single track with a short section of wide mowed grass trails mid race and a short parade loop in the parking lot at the start to help spread runners out before hitting the single track. Both courses are ideal trail running whether you're a speedy trail veteran or a middle to back of the pack trail rookie! We always have lots of first time trail runners and racers and we've never lost a single one! We always encourage folks to challenge themselves but please note, the ~10k is generally a fairly challenging course considering the distance and the ~5k is definitely more suited for newer and/or slower trail runners. The course will close at the 3 hour mark and volunteers will be pulled from the course then or whenever the last runner passes them, whichever comes first. If you feel you cannot complete the 10k in the allotted time, please consider switching to the 5k.
Sorry, no strollers or pets allowed on course but please feel free to bring your well behaved children and/or puppies to join in on the post race festivities!
Registration Details
No paper registration form. No race morning registration. Online registration only.
***NO REFUNDS OR BIB TRANSFERS***
Last year, we hit our initial capacity in less than 5 hours. Once we fill up, a waitlist will be maintained and runners will be added to the event as spots become available in the order they joined the wait list. If you do not get signed up on time, please do not despair! Instead, register like normal via ultrasignup to be added to the waitlist. In the past, almost every runner who's gotten on the waitlist in a timely manner has had a spot open for them by the time May rolls around. When a spot opens up, waitlisters will be notified via email of their selection and will have three (3) days to either accept or decline the invitation. Three weeks out from race day, that window of time shortens to 24 hours. When that time is up, the invitation will be passed to the next person on the wait list. Please note that you are charged and your registration finalized ONLY if you accept the waitlist invitation.
DEFERRAL POLICY
If you are unable to participate after having registered, please let us know ASAP via e-mail (green 'Ask a Question?' box at the top right) or Facebook to defer your entry and to open up spots for those on the wait list.
If you choose to defer your entry, you will receive a 100% rollover credit for the amount paid for the following year's race. Please note, the deferral is good for ONE year only and ONLY applies to your race registration fee. The deadline for the deferral option is Thursday, April 17th, no exceptions! All deferrals will be notified of early registration opening up (early January of the following year) via the email address used to register this year. Deferrals will have the week of early registration to redeem their rollover credit which will expire when general registration opens on Friday of that week. There will be no morning of registration.
***NO REFUNDS OR BIB TRANSFERS***
NO COAST TRAIL SERIES
Our race is proud to be a part of the No Coast Trail Series. For more details and to sign up for free go to: No Coast Trail Series. Check out all the other member races and help grow trail and ultra running on the No Coast!
Where
Park in the main parking lot on the north side of the park, right off Telegraph Road. Please consider carpooling or biking down to save on space and environmental impact.
Swag
Tons of bacon, tons of beer plus all pre-registered runners get some sweet swag. Simple, useful and awesome. Shirts are optional again this year. General feedback from past years' shirts is that they're incredibly comfortable and look great! Expect the same this year. Deadline to be able to add a shirt to your registration is Friday, May 5th. We'll order some extra shirts and have them available for sale race morning but sizes won't be guaranteed.
Lots of bacon and beer will be provided for all runners. We also encourage runners to participate in the potluck style post race party and bring sides and other dishes to share!
Packet Pickup
Thursday night 5pm-8pm - Stompbox Brewing - 210 E River Dr, Davenport
Friday night 5pm-7pm - Sunderbruch Park - 4675 Telegraph Rd, Davenport
Saturday morning, packet pickup will start at 8am and go until 8:45am.
Please consider stopping down Thursday or Friday night as it'll help with congestion come race morning.
FREE KIDS RACE
We'll be hosting a FREE trail race for kiddos 10 and under Friday night at packet pickup down at the park! The B&B community has grown over the last 8 years and with it, the next generation of trail runners have sprung up alongside it. We'd love nothing more than a chance to give those kiddos a safe and structured run on the trails! The kids race is open to any little trail runner (as long as accompanied by an adult) and is NOT limited to only those registered for the race. 6pm at Sunderbruch - please arrive at least 10min early to get the runners signed up and accounted for. The course will be a little under a half mile and parents are welcome to run alongside the really little ones.
PLEASE READ - Weather Policy
As many of you probably know, the single track mountain bike trails at Sunderbruch were built and are maintained by the hard working souls of FORC (the local mountain biking club). Thus, trail closure decisions are 100% up to them. Due to this, there is the possibility that come race day, MTB trails could be closed due to excessive rainfall. If this ends up being the case, we will instead utilize an alternate plan B course that covers the double track grass trails, horse trails and paved pathway throughout the park.
This is a very small grassroots event. We do not offer refunds of any sort. We do have a very generous deferral policy, the details of which are outlined above under Registration Details. Please DO NOT register if any of this is unacceptable to you. We hope you'll understand and will register early to help us put on another awesome year of B&B!
RULES
Don't litter.
Don't knowingly cut the course.
Don't cheat in any way.
Don't be rude or abusive to fellow runners, volunteers, spectators or race staff.
Don't give your bib to another runner to run in your place.
Breaking any of these rules is grounds for disqualification and a possible ban from future B&B and Sun Trail Running events.
We don't have many rules but if you don't think you should be doing something, you probably shouldn't do it.
Event's current local time: 5:11 AM CT
