2020 Ravenna Run the Ravine

07/28/2020

4k, 8k, 12k

July 28, 2020.

4:00-7:00pm Start Window

Ravenna Park, Seattle, WA

With extensive safety precautions that include individual start times, we will be putting on our first Trail to Grill Series event at Ravenna Park in Seattle. We will add additional details shortly on our COVID-19 precaution plan, which includes physical distancing of everyone at the event, mask wearing by staff and by participants while not on the course, and sanitizing measures.

Nestled just north of the University District, Ravenna Park is a forest-filled ravine that serves as a green retreat for city dwellers. According to Seattle Parks & Recreation, a local realtor named Ravenna Park after “an Italian seacoast town that was famous for its pine trees, where poets, warriors, and statesmen once strolled in a state of euphoria…” Experience your own trail running-induced euphoria at Ravenna Run the Ravine! Whether it’s your first trail run, a chance to set a personal record, or simply some motivating maintenance miles, you’ll be glad you ran at Ravenna Park.

Join us for a 4k, 8k, or 12k trail run at Ravenna Run the Ravine, part of the Tuesday Night Trail to Grill series!

2020 TUESDAY NIGHT TRAIL TO GRILL SERIES

July 28 – RAVENNA RUN THE RAVINE
4k, 8k, 12k, Ravenna Park, Seattle, WA

AUGUST 4- SUMMER EDDY
4 mile & 8 mile, St. Edward State Park, Kenmore, WA

New date AUGUST 11 – CARKEEK WARMER
5k & 10k, Carkeek Park, Seattle, WA

AUGUST 18- INTERLAKEN ICE CREAM DASH
5k & 10k, Interlaken Park, Seattle, WA

New date TBA – JULY 21 – SEWARD SIZZLER
4.2 mile & 10k, Seward Park, Seattle, WA

New date and/or venue TBA – SUNSHINE SALUTATION
5 mile & 10 mile, Redmond Watershed, Redmond, WA

Thank you to Oiselle for sponsoring the Tuesday Night Trail to Grill Series.

Results & Photos
Registration
COVID-19 Safety Measures
Course Description
Schedule
Directions & Parking
Apparel
Post-Race Festivities
Safety, Etiquette, & Dogs

Results & Photos

2020 Results & a few photos by Heather Gonzalez

2019 Results & Photos courtesy of Ryan Thrower & Lizzie Krawczak

2018 Results & Photos courtesy of Taryn Graham

2017 Results & Photos courtesy of Takao Suzuki

2016 Results & Photos by Michael Lake

2015 Results

2014 Results

Registration

	Open (through 3/20)	Early (through 5/6)	Regular (through 7/27)	Day-of-Event
4k	19.00	22.00	25.00	30.00
8k	22.00	27.00	31.00	35.00
12k	26.00	32.00	36.00	40.00

Use the red registration button on the left to register for multiple Trail to Grill Series events at once. Register for two races to get a 5% discount on your entry fees, three races to get a 10% discount, and four or more races to get a 15% entry fee discount. The green button on the right links to registration just for this race.

Day-of-event registration by cash, card, or check made payable to Northwest Trail Runs.

COVID-19 Safety Measures

Part of our duty as event organizers is to plan carefully for safety. We take this responsibility seriously, and we appreciate the trust you place in us by coming to our events. The COVID-19 pandemic has meant a pause for our events, but it has also meant a lot of extra work over the intervening months adapting our events to mitigate the new risks of the pandemic.

Because confusing and often conflicting or politicized information has created doubt and uncertainty about safety and relative risk, we want to briefly address the basic safety of trail running: The consensus opinion of the infectious disease experts is that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is far less likely to transmit from person to person outdoors, primarily due to the movement of air dispersing virus-bearing droplets to a low concentration that is unlikely to result in infection. Outdoor transmission is still possible, but studies of the origin of cases seem to suggest that it is roughly 100 times less likely that any given case will have resulted from outdoor transmission.

It is also the case that brief contact with a contagious person is far less likely to result in viral transmission than sustained close proximity. Taken together with the relative safety of being outdoors, this means that if you briefly pass close by an infected person on the trail, there is only a vanishingly small chance of you catching the virus from them and getting infected. Of course we still want to take precautions to mitigate small risks, but with reasonable modifications, we believe that trail running events can be one of the safest and most health-promoting things you can do during the pandemic.

Our staff has been looking toward expert guidance—including from health and labor departments at the State of Washington (via the guidance from the Governor’s office) and numerous email bulletins and web resources from the Centers for Disease Control—as we implement extensive safety protocols to eliminate unnecessary risks. The list of steps we are taking is long and growing in detail, so we won’t include it here, but the general areas we are emphasizing are physical distancing, PPE/masks/hygiene, sanitizing, screening, staffing for safety, communications & training.

You have an important role to play in facilitating a safe event, and we ask that you follow #RecreateResponsibly guidelines and adhere to the guidelines below to help us keep you and our broader community safe:

Maintain Physical Distancing

Avoid gathering around others, and keep at least a six-foot interpersonal distance from anyone not in your household whenever possible
Travel to and from the event only with people in your household. Normally we encourage carpooling, but this is not the time for it.
Plan ahead so that you don’t need to make any extra stops on your way to or from the event. This is to eliminate unnecessary contact with others.
Arrive at the event site no earlier than you need to in order to comfortably check in and prepare to start, and at most one hour before your start time. If you arrive with extra time, please stay in your car or take a walk away from the event area in order to facilitate distancing for yourself and others.
Depart the event site promptly after you finish and complete your post-exercise routine
Unless you are passing, please maintain at least a 20-foot distance when following other runners going a similar speed on the course. Announce yourself when you intend to pass someone else on the trail, wait for a relatively wide spot, and allow time for the person you are passing to step to one side of the trail.

Wear a Mask & Practice Good Hygiene

Wear a mask or face covering at the event, only taking it off when you are about to start or are eating or drinking. You may want to bring a small plastic bag for your mask, so that you can put it in an easily accessible pocket when you aren’t wearing it.
Wash your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds or use hand sanitizer frequently, plus immediately after contact with respiratory fluids or possibly contaminated objects, like portable toilet doors and other commonly-touched surfaces.
If you need to coughs or sneeze please cover it with a tissue (which you should then throw away as soon as possible) or with your elbow.
Avoid touching your mouth, nose, and eyes.
When taking your bib number, drinks, snacks, or any other items, please use care to touch only the item(s) you are taking. Drinks and snacks will be served in individual portions only, and common water and snack containers are to be touched by staff only.

Stay Home if You’re Sick or Vulnerable

Do not attend the event if you have a temperature of 100.4F or greater, feel sick, or believe you may have recently been exposed to the COVID-19 virus
Do not attend the event if you are a member of a high-risk group or are in close contact with one or more people in a high-risk group (per CDC: 65+, immune compromised, having another health condition that exacerbates COVID-19)
If you begin to experience the flu-like symptoms of COVID-19 while you are at the event, please immediately notify a staff person (at a safe distance) and self-quarantine away from others until you are able to safely depart the event

We will ask you to affirmatively agree to abide by this code of conduct before you participate in the event. We also ask that we be allowed to contact you after the event if we discover that someone at the event was sick and have reason to believe you may have been exposed. If you become sick soon after attending the event, we would appreciate you letting us know, so that we can track potential risk to our staff and other participants.

Course Description

All courses use the same 4.1 km loop, with low to moderate climb (230 feet per loop) and nicely groomed forested trails. There are a few steeper pitches, but most of the course is gently sloping, as the course takes runners up and down the ravine.

Click the course map to see a larger image.

Click the elevation profile to see a larger image. Elevation data were measured with a Suunto Ambit sport watch.

Aid Station
There will be an aid station at the start/finish point, so runners doing the 8 km and 12 km distances will pass the aid station once and twice, respectively.

The aid station will be set up to offer individual portions only, and participants may touch only items they are taking from the table. Only staff may handle communal serving containers, and surfaces will be sanitized frequently throughout the event.

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 28

3:30pm – Day-of-event registration opens
4:00pm – Start window opens
7:00pm – Start window closes
9:00pm – Course closes

Directions & Parking

The parking lot at Ravenna Park is very small (fewer than 30 spaces), so be prepared to find nearby street parking North (unrestricted, but a bit farther scenic walk) or South (2-hour limit between 7am and 8pm) of the park.

Google Map

Apparel

Our current Northwest Trail Runs series shirt with the “Run Every Trail” slogan and an inspiring mountain motif is available online or at each race! You can purchase apparel by 1) ordering at RunningBug Apparel and have it shipped to you, or, 2) trying it on and buying at the event.

$18.10 + tax – short sleeve tech shirts, in unisex, women’s cuts & youth

$18.10 + tax – short sleeve cotton blend shirts, unisex; $27.20 + tax – cotton hoodie, unisex

$22.70 + tax – long sleeve tech shirts, in unisex and women’s cut

Post-Race Festivities

Because of our COVID-19 safety measures, we are asking that runners NOT gather after the race, but we would love if you wanted to share about your experience on our Facebook page. Our finish refreshment selection will be different than our usual grilled fare and watermelon, emphasizing grab-and-go options. We look forward to returning to our previous social format and menu once the pandemic is over.

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.

COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS
We have numerous safety measures that we will describe in more detail, but in brief, we ask that while you are at the event—except while you are actually running the course—you maintain at least a 6-foot distance from others not in your household and wear a mask or cloth face covering.

FOLLOWING AND PASSING ETIQUETTE
If you find yourself following other runners at a similar pace, please do so at a distance of at least 20 feet (6 meters). When passing, please announce your intent well in advance, in case the runner in front of you wishes to step to the side of the trail to maintain a comfortable distance. 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.