2016 Paradise Valley Trail Run

09/17/2016

5k, 10k, Half Marathon

Saturday, September 17th

Paradise Valley Conservation Area, Woodinville, WA

Paradise Valley Conservation Area is indeed a trail runner’s paradise, with mostly gently rolling trails of a variety of widths and speeds, from wide and straight promenades where you can stride out to serpentine pathways that wind between wetland cedar groves and meander up and down gentle ridges. The forest is just as varied and offers an enchanting journey to its visitors.

Results
Registration
Course Description
Schedule
Parking & Shuttle
Safety, Etiquette, & Dogs

Results

2016 Results & Photos by Takao Suzuki

Registration

	Open (through 7/19)	Early (through 8/2)	Regular (through 9/15)	Day-of-Event
5k	20.00	24.00	29.00	35.00
10k	25.00	29.00	34.00	40.00
Half Marathon	35.00	39.00	44.00	50.00
Marathon	40.00	46.00	52.00	60.00

Online pre-registration closes Thursday, September 15th at 11:59pm.

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

Course Description

The trails at Paradise Valley are a mix of wide and narrow, smooth and bumpy, straight and curvy, so the courses offer a good variety and will keep you on your toes. All courses start out the same way, going out the medium-width mainline trail then out the Wetland Plateau Trail, which starts out narrow and eventually widens and joins the Southern Traverse Trail. The course passes the mid-loop aid station for the first time at 1.6 miles then narrows again when it turns onto the swoopy and gradually descending Lloyd bike trail.

At the bottom of Lloyd Trail, the 5k runners continue down and across the Mainline Trail and finish with a tour around the plateau above the start/finish on the Cascara Trail, which starts out relatively straight and then becomes increasingly curvy before rejoining the Mainline Trail for a short return to the finish.

The 10k loop and the second loop of the half marathon continue on back up the gentle slope and back to the aid station at 3.1 miles. The loops then cross the valley that bisects the area on Southern Traverse Trail before diverging and taking different meandering trails that gently descend again on the return toward the finish.

The Half Marathon course is two loops: The 10k course loop, plus a 7-mile second loop that is similar to the 10k course but takes a longer route after the mid-loop split.

The terrain is mostly gently sloping, making for course profiles that are predominantly runnable, with only short steeper slopes.

Distances and Climb
5k (actual 5.46km): 265 feet*
10k (actual 10.15km): 540 feet*
Half Marathon (13.3mi): ~1200 feet*

* 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%.

Here is a high-resolution course map.

Aid stations
There will be two well-provisioned aid/refreshment stations, one located adjacent to the start/finish, and one located where the course loops fold onto themselves and return to the same junction at the 1.6-mile (all courses) and 3.1-mile (all courses except 5k) points in the course loops.

Aid stations offer 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

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
8:00am – Check-in and day-of-event registration opens (due to low Marathon registrations, check-in & day-of-event registration is now at 8:00am instead of 7:00am)
8:50am – Pre-Half Marathon briefing
9:00am – Half Marathon start
9:20am – 5k/10k briefing
9:30am – 5k/10k start

Parking & Shuttle

Parking for the shuttle bus is located at the Church at Maltby. Here is a map you can use for parking.

The shuttle will provide frequent transport between the parking area and the start and finish.

The first shuttle will be 7:20am and the last shuttle will be around 1:00pm.

Safety, Etiquette, & Dogs

SAFETY
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. 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 pass, but sometimes the rider will tell you it is okay for you to walk past. The amount of trail traffic will depend upon 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.

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.