2016 Carkeek Warmer

07/12/2016

5k & 10k

Tuesday, July 12th, 2016

6:30pm Start

Carkeek Park, Seattle, WA

Carkeek is home to six miles of fun, roller-coaster trails that traverse the forest! The trails range from wide and rolling, to narrow and steep. If ever you’re feeling like the climb is tough, remember that you get to fly back down!

Results
Registration
Course Description
Schedule
Directions & Parking
Safety, Etiquette, Dogs
Apparel

Results

2016 Results

2015 Results

Registration

	Open (through 3/31)	Early (through 6/21)	Regular (through 7/10)	Day-of-Event
5k	21.00	24.00	27.00	30.00
10k	25.00	28.00	31.00	35.00

Online pre-registration closes Monday, July 11th at 11:59pm.

Event-day registration is available by cash, card, or check made payable to Northwest Trail Runs.

Course Description

The course starts and finishes in the Lower Meadow next to Piper’s Creek. The route is mostly in the forest (85%) and has a mix of fast, wide trail (64%) and narrower rolling trail (36%), with some flatter sections and some moderate to steep sections.

The 5k course goes the length of the wide, Piper’s Creek Trail, climbing first gently, then more steeply to the head of the valley before turning around and going over half the distance back. The route then turns left up the South Ridge Trail, which climbs steeply then becomes a rolling traverse through some of the older forest in the park. Upon reaching the Clay Pit Trail, the course turns right down the hill, then descends to the meadow on the Hillside Trail and goes a few hundred meters to the finish.

The 10k course is two loops of the 5k course.

Climb
5K (3.1 miles), with 480 feet of elevation gain*
10K (6.2 miles), with 960 feet of elevation gain*

*Distances were measured using a measuring wheel, and climb was measured using a detailed contour map. The distance is most likely within 1% of actual, and the climb within 10%.

View a PDF of the course map here

Aid station
The aid station will be stationed at the start/finish, which is the halfway point for 10k runners.

The aid station offers water, electrolyte drink, and some carbohydrate-rich or salty foods, such as cookies, pieces of energy bar, gels, chews, chips, bagel, fruity candy, fig bars, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and/or bananas.

Schedule

TUESDAY, JULY 12

5:30pm – Day-of-event registration opens
6:30pm – Start
9:00pm – Course closes

Directions & Parking

Drive past the upper meadow area that includes the restroom building, play area, and picnic shelter, and follow the road down the hill to the meadow in the valley bottom.

Google Map

Safety, Etiquette, Dogs

SAFETY
The trails will be open to other users during the event, including pedestrians with pets, and cyclists. Participants are responsible for their own safety while participating, and the organizers are neither qualified nor equipped to render medical care in the event of a serious injury. In case of an emergency, call 9-1-1. You are encouraged to bring a cell phone with you as a safety precaution, if you wish.

PASSING ETIQUETTE
Where the trails are narrow, please let other participants pass you if they want to get by. It is a passing runner’s job to tell the person in front that they wish to pass.

HEADPHONES
If you’d like to listen to music while you’re on the course, please use headphones or earbuds, so that runners around you can’t hear it. Others may prefer a quieter event experience or may have different musical tastes. Runners playing music in the open air may be asked to leave the event.

Also, keep the volume low enough that you can hear someone talking to you in a normal voice, for example, another runner saying they would like to pass on your left.

DOGS
Our events are USATF certificated and under the USATF policies, dog are not allow on course.

Apparel

Northwest Trail Runs and RunningBug Apparel have a new T-shirt design for the Spring/Summer 2016 race season! Created in-house by Patrick Nuss, this Tahoma design is 100% Pacific Northwest! You can order apparel when registering and pick up your order onsite, or order at RunningBug Apparel and have your items shipped, or try on and buy at an event.