2022 Frost Eagle Trail Run

01/15/2022

5-mile & Half Marathon

Saturday, January 15, 9:20-10:00am starts

Soaring Eagle Regional Park, Sammamish, WA

A sanctuary for birds, deer, bobcats, and black bear, Soaring Eagle Regional Park is also a quiet sanctuary for humans. Six hundred acres of forest and wetlands interrupt miles of suburban homes on the edge of the flat Sammamish Plateau and are host to 12 miles of trail that walkers, runners, mountain bikers, and equestrians enjoy.

The trails at Soaring Eagle are arranged like a spider’s web, with the wide Pipeline Trail cutting through the center and a network of interconnected trails radiating out from it. The surrounding trails were designed with little deference to the landscape, meaning that they twist, turn, swoop, and dive over all the little bumps in the park. With no major climb, you may find yourself hooting and hollering over these miniature roller coasters and begin thinking of the word “hill” in a whole new way. There is also a healthy population of rocks and roots on the trails, so there will be little time for zoning out as you dab through nature’s hopscotch.

Join us for a 5-mile or Half Marathon at Frost Eagle, the sixth event in the Winter Trail Series!

Want to keep motivated all winter long? Use the series registration page to sign up for more than one Winter Trail Series event at once!

2021-22 WINTER TRAIL SERIES

NOV 6 – CARKEEK COOLER
5k & 10k, Carkeek Park, Seattle, WA

NOV 20 – RAVENNA REFRESHER
4k, 8k, 12k, Ravenna Park, Seattle, WA

DEC 4 – REDMOND REINDEER ROMP
5-mile & Half Marathon, Redmond Watershed Preserve, Redmond, WA

DEC 18 – SEWARD SOLSTICE
4.2-mile & 10k, Seward Park, Seattle, WA

JAN 2 – ABSOLUTION RUN
4-mile & 8-mile, St. Edward State Park, Kenmore, WA

JAN 15 – FROST EAGLE
5-mile & Half Marathon, Soaring Eagle Park, Sammamish, WA

FEB 5 – INTERLAKEN ICICLE DASH
5k & 10k, Interlaken Park, Seattle, WA

SERIES SWAG

Are you motivated by swag?

Consistency pays off! Participate in 4 or more of the Winter Trail Series events in the 2021-2022 season listed above and you’ll earn a free limited edition Northwest Trail Runs fleece blanket (50″ x 60″)! Colors are subject to availability.

SERIES COMPETITION

Are you competitive?

Your best 4 performances in the Winter Trail Series will rank you in the series standings!
If you want to do fewer events, that’s okay! Series events are open to everyone.
You may register for events individually, or use Series Registration (link coming) to sign up for more than one event at once for your own convenience. Using Series Registration is not required to be part of the series competition.
If you complete any of the 2021-22 season Winter Trail Series events, you are automatically entered.
Points will be awarded to women and men separately (both the fastest man and woman will earn 100 points). After receiving points for placement within the women’s and men’s category, participants will then be divided into their age category for the series competition. (You may be the fastest in your category without scoring 100 points, if you are not the overall women’s or men’s winner).
The series rewards those with the most points, regardless of what distances they ran.
The 1st place woman and 1st place man in each event score 100 points, 2nd place scores 95, 3rd scores 92, 4th scores 90, 5th 89 and so on. Places 64th and lower score 30 points.
In the event of a tie, each runner’s highest point score is used for the tie-breaker. If two runners have identical highest point scores, then the next highest point scores are compared until the tie is broken.
The top series participants receive special recognition and free entry to a future trail run to be announced.
Awards will be presented in the following categories: Open Women, Open Men, Masters Women 40+, Masters Men 40+, Youth Girls 12/under, Youth Boys 12/under, Junior Girls 13-18, Junior Boys 13-18

Results & Photos
Registration
COVID-19 Safety Measures
Youth Runner Discount
Course Description
Schedule
Directions & Parking
Apparel
Safety, Etiquette & Dogs

Results & Photos

2022 Results & photos by Yutaka Suzue

2021 Results & photos by Takao Suzuki

2020 Results & photos by Taryn Graham

2019 Results & photos by Takao Suzuki

2018 Results & photos by Takao Suzuki

2017 Results & photos by Yutaka Suzue

Registration

	Open (through 10/5)	Early (through 11/30)	Regular (through 1/13)	Day-of-Event
5-mile	27.00	31.00	35.00	40.00
Half Marathon	39.00	43.00	48.00	55.00

Use the dark green registration button on the right to register for multiple Winter Trail 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 light green button on the left links to registration just for this race.

Online pre-registration closes Thursday, January 13 at 11:59pm.

Day-of-event registration is available 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, and that includes COVID-19 safety. We appreciate the trust you place in us by coming to our events, and we ask that we be able to trust you to take part in the simple measures we’re employing for COVID-19 safety. Thank you!

Please read this page for an overview of our general measures.

Here are some specific considerations for this event:

We ask that everyone please wear a mask in more congested areas where it is generally not possible to keep your physical distance from others. This includes the registration/check-in area and the post-run refreshments table.
Vaccinated people need not wear a mask at other times around the start/finish area.
Unvaccinated people please wear a mask around the start/finish area.
We ask that masks be pulled up when approaching aid stations. You can take food or drink with your mask on, then step away to remove your mask to eat or drink.
We ask that everyone please wear a mask when gathering for the pre-start briefing.
Everyone may take off their mask for the race itself, once the field spreads out some and you have some space between you and the other runners out on the trail.
While you are running, you may wish to be mindful to avoid following immediately behind another runner (touching distance), where you could possibly be breathing a high concentration of their exhaled air.
While you are running, please facilitate passing taking place with as much distance as practical and as briefly as practical. Announce that you are passing as you approach another runner from behind.

Thank you again for helping us make this a safe and fun event!

Youth Runner Discount

Runners in elementary, middle, or high school are eligible to receive a $10 discount on online pre-registration prices for all Northwest Trail Runs events. The discount will be auto generated based on your birthday.

Young runners registering at the event may receive $5 off day-of-event registration.

Course Description

Courses feature rolling hills that are mostly short or moderate in grade, and none of the courses are very hilly by trail running standards. Much of the course is on “technical singletrack,” which means that the trail can be narrow, twisty, and filled with roots and bumps. A short section of the course is on the Pipeline Trail which is mostly groomed gravel, but can turn muddy in places.

PDF of the half marathon course map (run loop twice)

PDF of the 5-mile course map (run once)

Aid Station
Both courses form a figure 8, and the aid station will be located at the intersection of the ‘8.’ See the course maps above for clarification. Everyone will pass the aid station twice on each lap, so that half marathoners pass the aid station 4 times and 5-milers pass the aid station 2 times.

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, JANUARY 15

8:00am – Check-in and event-day registration opens
9:10am – Half Marathon pre-run briefing
9:20am – Half Marathon Start*
9:50am – 5-mile pre-run briefing
10:00am – 5-mile Start*
1:30pm – Course closes

* Those who are not comfortable participating in the mass start have the option of starting individually shortly within 15 minutes after the mass start for their distance. In light of the continuing surge in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron variant, we are considering this a wave start race, so runners who start separately from the mass start will have their results ranked and scored along with everyone else’s.

Directions & Parking

The start and finish is at the main entrance of Soaring Eagle Regional Park, on the west side of the park, where there is a paved parking lot. No parking pass is required. There is also free street parking on the south side of E Main Dr. Please note that the north side of E Main Dr. is signed with No Parking signs. DO NOT PARK HERE! There is a local resident who makes a hobby of calling in vehicles that are parked on the north side of the street.

Due to the small size of the lot and the large number of runners, most people will need to park on the street, and the line of cars will stretch several hundred meters along the road from the start. Later arriving runners should allow time to walk or jog the distance from street parking to the start.

Google Map

Apparel

*** On-site sales will not be available for this event. ***

The Northwest Trail Runs apparel merchandise for 2022 is here!

You can add Northwest Trail Runs apparel to your race registration and pick them up at the event, or order them here and have them shipped.

You don’t see your preferred size? Email us!

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

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

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

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 sanctioned and subject to USATF policies, and so dogs are not allowed to accompany runners on the course.