2014 Cedar River Run

09/13/2014

5-mile, Half Marathon, and Marathon

Saturday, September 13, 9:30am

Landsburg Park, Ravensdale, WA

The Cedar River Trail is a popular destination for berry pickers, picnickers, inner tubers, and of course, trail runners! Come enjoy a golden day of late summer at a trail run with mellow hills and a fun variety of trails.

The Cedar River Trail itself is a wide and virtually flat rail trail, while the surrounding forest hosts tracks that vary from straight ample-width paths with cushy footing under tall cedars to adventurous single-track winding between salal or salmonberry with a few rocks and roots. The course is a potluck of trail types, mostly very easily runnable. After all, why load up on one entree, when you can try them all? There’s even a short beach section to mix it up.

Come enjoy a 5-mile, half marathon, or full marathon, on a pleasantly runnable course, and then take the short trail from the finish area to the Cedar River to cool your feet off afterwards.

Results & Photos
Registration
Apparel
Course Description
Schedule
Directions & Parking
Safety & Etiquette

Results & Photos

2014 Results and Photos

Registration

Early (until 9/3) / Regular (until 9/11)* / Day-Of-Event**
5mi: $25 / 29 / 35
Half Marathon: $35 / 39 / 45
Marathon: $42 / 47 / 55

*Online pre-registration closes on September 11th at 11:59pm.
**At the event, we accept cash or check made payable to Northwest Trail Runs.

Apparel

During online registration, you can add Northwest Trail Runs apparel to your order! Options include a short sleeve ($19) and long sleeve tech shirt ($23), a SoftStyle slim fit cotton tee ($19), and a cozy cotton hoodie ($28). Shirts feature a bright Northwest Trail Runs logo.

There is limited stock of 2014’s Run Every Trail arrow design, so it is available for purchase on-site (cash or check) or through RunningBugApparel.com.

Course Description

There is a lot of variety on the Cedar River Run course! The Cedar River Trail itself is a flat and wide rails-to-trails gravel path. The pipeline section is similarly groomed, but rolling. The trails in the surrounding forest vary greatly, ranging from straight to winding, and narrow to wide. The trail is not relentless, but always changing, creating a playful trail run course.

There are few steep sections and no major climbs. The difference between the lowest and highest part of the course is around 150 feet, which is a very modest height difference for a trail run in Washington State.

View a PDF of the course map here.

Aid stations
There will be three well-provisioned aid/refreshment stations, as well as an additional station with water. The 5-mile runners will pass one aid station, and the half marathon runners will pass all three, plus the water-only station. The marathon runners will pass all the half marathon loop aid stations twice, in addition to having an aid station adjacent to the start/finish between laps, for a total of seven fully-stocked aid stations and two water-only stations.

Here are the aid station distances for each course:

5-mile:
2.55 mi, just after first road crossing, SE 248th St.

Half Marathon:
2.55 mi, just after first road crossing, SE 248th St.
7.36 mi, just before second road crossing, Summit Landsburg Road
9.96 mi, just after crossing Summit Landsburg Road again
11.13 mi, just after fourth road crossing, SE 248th St., water only

Marathon:
2.55 mi, just after first road crossing, SE 248th St.
7.36 mi, just before second road crossing, Summit Landsburg Road
9.96 mi, just after crossing Summit Landsburg Road again
11.13 mi, just after fourth road crossing, SE 248th St., water only
13.11 mi, at finish; then start second lap
15.66 mi, SE 248th St
20.47 mi, before Summit Landsburg Road
23.07 mi, after Summit Landsburg Road
24.24 miles, SE 248th St., water only

Aid stations offer water, electrolyte drink, cola at longer events, 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 bananas.

Schedule

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
8:30am – Check-in and day-of-event registration opens
9:30am – Start
4:30pm – Course closure

Directions & Parking

Parking, start, and finish are at Landsburg Park. You can park in the gravel lots on either side of Landsburg Road. If those lots are full, there is another gravel lot you can use adjacent to the south side of the river, just across the bridge from the start.

Google Map

Safety & Etiquette

The trails will be open to other users during the event, including pedestrians, bicyclists and equestrians (horseback riders). Please be courteous. Horses have the right of way, and if you encounter a horse in your path, stop running and talk to the rider; you will probably need to step to the side of the trail to let the horse past, but sometimes the rider will tell you it is okay to walk past. The amount of trail traffic will depend on the weather.

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.

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.

Road Crossings

There are two road crossings on the 5-mile course route, and four road crossings on the half marathon route. Staff will be there to help you cross safely, however you should watch for and yield to vehicle traffic at the road crossings. We can not stop traffic for runners to cross. Both the crossings on the 5-mile are of a very quiet street (248th), however the half marathon and marathon runners will be crossing Summit Landsburg Road, which has somewhat more traffic that generally moves fast.