2020 Run With The Kokanee

10/17/2020

5k & 10k

Saturday, October 17, 2020 8:30-11:00am

Lake Sammamish State Park, Issaquah, WA

Your entry helps support the Kokanee Salmon recovery work of the Bellevue-Issaquah Chapter of Trout Unlimited. The Kokanee are unique to Lake Sammamish and are in danger of becoming extinct. Some of Trout Unlimited’s work includes: protecting the Kokanee’s access to spawning areas, educating fisherman to properly identify Kokanee, educating residents about environmentally-friendly lawn care, and more.

At the beginning of 2016, Bellevue/Issaquah Chapter of Trout Unlimited received a $10,000 People Helping People Award from BECU for all the hard work this organization does!

Join us for a fun run with a cause at Run with the Kokanee!

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

Results & Photos

2020 Results & photos by Heather Gonzalez

2019 Results & photos by Yutaka Suzue

2018 Results & photos by Yutaka Suzue

2017 Results & photos by Yutaka Suzue

2016 Results

Registration

	Pre-entry (through 10/16)
5km	34.00
10km	39.00

Online pre-registration closes Friday, October 16 at 11:00pm. The deadline for guaranteed T-shirt size selection is Thursday at 11:59pm.

Since the new guidance on races from the Governor’s office allows start waves of up to 10 runners, we will offer 5k and 10k “Elite” start waves for competitive open and masters runners. The 5k Elite wave will start at 8:30am, and the 10k Elite wave will start at 8:35am. The mask requirement and distancing measures will be in place right up until the start lineup, however it will still be possible to stand just behind the start line for runners who wish to maintain distancing 100% of the time.

Runners not opting to start in the elite waves will be started individually or in small household groups during 10-minute time blocks they sign up for during registration.

You can check your start wave on the registration confirmation list.

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 meant a pause for our events that ended only in late July, but it has also meant much 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. If it works for you to take a face covering on the course with you to cover your nose and mouth while you are passing others, then we encourage you to do so.
Wash your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds or use hand sanitizer frequently, plus immediately before and after contact with respiratory fluids or possibly contaminated objects, like portable toilet doors and other commonly-touched surfaces.
If you need to cough 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.

T-shirt

All pre-registered runners will receive a FREE tech t-shirt featuring the custom salmon artwork above by Shaun Peterson! T-shirts come in Medium Youth – Adult XXL and are unisex. Due to the difficulty of accommodating last-minute registrants, we cannot guarantee size availability for anyone registering after Thursday, October 15.

Course Description

The course is a 5k loop, starting out on paved park paths (67%) and then finishing on wide, grassy trails (33%). The route is basically flat, with no hills. 5k participants will do this loop once, and 10k participants will do it twice.

View a PDF of the course map here

Aid Station
There will be one aid station at about 1.7 miles into the loop.

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, October 17

7:30am – Check-in opens

8:30am – 5k Elite Start wave*
8:35am – 10k Elite Start wave*

8:40am – First Open Start
11:00am – Last Open Start

1:00pm – Course closes

* We will offer a few early start waves of up to 10 runners each for competitive open and masters runners who want to compete head-to-head, and we will award the top finishers in these waves.

Directions & Parking

Note that parking at this park requires a Discover Pass. If you purchase a Discover Pass online, you can print out a temporary pass before your pass arrives in the mail. There are also many vendors that sell passes in-person. See this website for details.

Google Map

Post-Race Festivities

We love to throw a fun party at the finish line, but because of our COVID-19 safety measures, we’re skipping the party this year and 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 hearty spread, 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. If it works for you to take a face covering on the course with you to cover your nose and mouth while you are passing others, then we encourage you to do so.

If you are comfortable running with a mask that you can pull into place quickly, then we welcome you to wear it over your nose and mouth when passing other people on the trails, although we recognize that the risks of momentarily passing someone without a mask are already minimal, and running with a mask may not work for everyone.

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). If you are an elite-wave runner and racing head-to-head, then try to stagger, so you are to the side of, rather than directly behind your competitor. 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.