Date: Sunday, October 12th, 2025, 12:00pm Run:
The Farmland 5K Run and Free for All Bike is Traverse City Track Club's running and biking event held on a dedicated cross country course on private farmland; this year on October 12th. A classic, European style turf grass course awaits you as you enjoy the natural challenge of running or biking! Traverse over grass, wooded dirt trails, and farmland running terrain.
New for 2025: A 1-Mile Kid's Event that begins at 11:30am! Kids receive a free small pumpkin to decorate after.
1PM: A Unique Bike Race called the "Free for All"
The Farmland "Free For All" bike event has cyclists taking to the running course for 5 laps of fun competition (approximately 10 miles total), on any bike you choose. Fat bike, gravel bike, mountain bike, maybe even a unicycle; you’ll see it all. Awards for overall and age group winner. It's 5 laps for 2025 as we have the big hill for each lap :)
For the ambitious, we’ll have a combined run/bike as well. Test your running legs in the 5k and your bike (or vice versa) and give the "Free For All" everything you’ve got left. Farmland Combos will be measured by their 5k time added to their bike time.
Oct 10, 2026
Distance — 9 Miles
Type — Running
10:00
$15.00
Oct 10, 2026
Distance — 12 Miles
Type — Running
10:00
$45.00
Oct 10, 2026
Distance — 5K
Type — Running
10:00
$15.00
Oct 10, 2026
Distance — 1 Miles
Type — Running
11:30
$5.00
Oct 10, 2026
Distance — 5K
Type — Running
12:00
$30.00
Oct 10, 2026
Distance — 9 Miles
Type — Running
13:00
$30.00
These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for October in Traverse City.
Learn more about the host city, Traverse City.
Traverse City is a scenic city on the Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. Directly north of Traverse City, the Old Mission Peninsula splits the Grand Traverse Bay in two, with a beautiful windswept landscape and great views of the bay on either side. Slightly to the west, the Leelanau Peninsula, with its charming small towns, forms the "pinkie finger" of the Michigan peninsula, jutting into Lake Michigan. Both peninsulas are prime winemaking regions within the state, and as such are one of the main tourist attractions in the region. Over a million visitors come each year to tour the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a scenic lakeside park with impressively large sand dunes. It's also a very popular destination for outdoor activities, owing to the proximity of Lake Michigan in summer, the impressive autumn colors, and the high snowfalls in winter.
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