2024 Turkey Trots Break Records (Again)

The biggest US running day of the year impressed in 2024, with 1,109,909 people participating in 936 races across the country and raising more than $3.6 million dollars for charities. Those record-shattering numbers represent an increase of 21% – more than 189,000…

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1 Million Signups for Turkey Trots Expected on RunSignup

Turkey Trots are on track for a record year! Early data is showing Turkey Trots on RunSignup are expecting over 1 Million participants this year! We expect over 500,000 CheckIns with our CheckIn app, and nearly 400,000 finisher results completed with RaceDay…

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2024 Turkey Trots: The Early Numbers

The biggest US running day of the year is coming up! In 2023, Thanksgiving Day races broke RunSignup records, with 920,761 participants across 833 races. Now, with about a month until Thanksgiving 2024, we took a look at the numbers to see…

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Getting Your Turkey Trot Back Up and Running

Turkey Trot Day is just about 3 months away, and now is the time to get your annual community run back up and running! While more than half of the 833 Turkey Trots from 2023 have renewed their event, we know there…

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2023 Turkey Trots Shatter Records

The biggest US running day of the year impressed in 2023, with 920,761 people participating in 833 races across the country and raising more than $1.9 million dollars for charities. That represented record-shattering participation on the platform, with an increase of more…

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2022 Is a Big Year for Turkey Trots

The biggest US running day of the year had an impressive showing in 2022, with 756,894 people participating in 730 races across the country and raising more than $1.8 million dollars for charities. That represents record participation on the platform, likely due…

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Thanksgiving Infrastructure Report

Note from Dec. 15 2022 – We have deployed an upgraded layer of software that controls our session management that is adaptive to high demand and removes the problem with the Apache Webserver cache mechanism that caused some slow performance on Thanksgiving…

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Early Turkey Trot Numbers are Encouraging

We did a quick check-in on how some of the data is looking this year so far for registration (November 7, 2022). We have been tracking how far races have recovered post pandemic. We also have done an annual wrap-up after turkey trots are done….

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Turkey Trots 2021: The Fun Stuff

We already provided an update on the 2021 Turkey Trot numbers (and they were impressive!), but everyone knows that the full story of Thanksgiving Day events is about more than just numbers. The History of the Turkey Trot Tradition Runners World put out…

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Turkey Trots 2021: Technology Makes a Difference

As we wrote last week, Turkey Trot Day 2021 was a record-breaker, with more than 617,000 registrants for the day on our platform. But it’s not just a big day for the runners: it’s a big day for GiveSignup | RunSignup technology, too….

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