2023 Seward Sizzler

07/11/2023

4.2mi & 10k

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

6:30pm Start

Seward Park, Seattle, WA

Situated on a peninsula surrounded by Lake Washington, Seward Park provides perhaps one of the greatest contrasts in Seattle: 100+ acres of old growth forest, just minutes from the city center. The run route follows a loop that is almost entirely in the forest, so there is ample opportunity to enjoy what the Friends of Seward Park fondly call “The Magnificent Forest,” with graceful Western Red Cedar and towering Douglas Fir, along with a lush tapestry of other native plants. You may even hear a Pileated Woodpecker pecking out a nest or rooting for a meal in an old tree trunk.

2023 TUESDAY NIGHT TRAIL TO GRILL SERIES

May 30 – RAVENNA RUN THE RAVINE
4k, 8k, 12k, Ravenna Park, Seattle, WA

JUNE 13 – SUNSHINE SALUTATION
5 mile & 10 mile, Redmond Watershed, Redmond, WA

JUNE 27 – CARKEEK WARMER
5k & 10k, Carkeek Park, Seattle, WA

JULY 11 – SEWARD SIZZLER
4.2 mile & 10k, Seward Park, Seattle, WA

July 25 – WOODLAND PARK ZOOM
5k & 10k, Woodland Park, Seattle, WA

AUGUST 8 – INTERLAKEN ICE CREAM DASH
5k & 10k, Interlaken Park, Seattle, WA

Motivated by swag?

Consistency pays off! Participate in 4 or more Tuesday Night Trail to Grill Series events and you’ll earn a 26-ounce high-quality water bottle in your choice of colors (turquoise, yellow, or green), featuring our mascot Chippy!

Image of three bicycling-style water bottles in turquoise, yellow, and green with Tuesday Night Trail to Grill series logo

Thanks to Oiselle for helping promote the Tuesday Night Trail to Grill Series. Bring in your bib number post race or proof of race registration and get 15% off any item at the Seattle Flagship store in University Village!

Results & Photos
Registration
Schedule
Course Description
Directions & Parking
Hot Dogs, Watermelon & More!
Apparel
Safety, Etiquette & Dogs

Results & Photos

2023 Results & Photos by Somer Kreisman

2022 Results & Photos by Somer Kreisman

2021 Results & Photos by Aaron Roche

2019 Results & Photos by Heather Gonzalez

2018 Results & Photos by Aaron Roche

2017 Results & Photos

2016 Results

2015 Results

Registration

	Open (through 4/22)	Early (through 6/13)	Regular (through 7/10)	Day-of-Event
4.2 mile	23.00	26.00	29.00	30.00
10k	27.00	30.00	33.00	40.00

Use the red button on the left to register for multiple Tuesday Night Trail to Grill series runs, or use the green button on the right to register only for this run.

Online pre-registration closed Monday, July 10, 2023 at 11:59pm. Event-day registration was available by cash, card, or check made payable to Northwest Trail Runs.

Youth Runner Discount

Runners who are 19 or younger 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.

Photo by Lizzie Krawczak

Schedule

TUESDAY, JULY 11

5:30pm – Day-of-event registration opens
6:25pm – Pre-start announcements
6:30pm – Start
8:10pm – Cut-off for 10k runners to start third lap
9:00pm – Course closes

Photo by Somer Kreisman

Course Description

The loop route starts out on the wide and smooth main trail, which is flat-to-rolling before dipping downhill toward the tip of the peninsula. Just before the main trail emerges from the forest onto the waterfront promenade, the course takes a left turn onto the smaller trails that climb and traverse the Western side of the peninsula. A few-hundred-meter segment of this return stretch features a twisty-turny section, with several small fallen trees to leap over and some roots and other bumps to negotiate. This will give most runners a breather as they slow down a bit before the trails get wider and straighter again toward the end of the loop.

View a PDF of the course map here (Thanks to Cascade Orienteering Club for use of their detailed park map.)

Aid Station
There will be an aid station adjacent to the start/finish point, so 4.2-mile runners will pass it once during their run, and 10km runners will pass it twice.

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.

Photo by Somer Kreisman

Directions & Parking

The start/finish will be located close to the second parking lot. When entering the park, pass the first parking lot on your left (near the beach and pottery studio) and continue up the hill on Seward Park Rd. until you see a parking lot on the right.

Google Map

IMPORTANT
Weekday evening traffic can often be very busy in the Seattle metropolitan area and the beautiful parks we host the Tuesday Night Trail to Grill Series at can get very busy, particularly on sunny days. As such, we recommend you allow yourself extra time for travel and finding parking on race evening.

Hot Dogs, Watermelon & More!

Make sure to stick around after your race for hot dogs, veggie dogs, watermelon, and other yummy snacks. We will present awards for the top 3 Female and Open category finishers in each distance, and we’ll raffle off fun prizes, so you might win something just by showing up!

Photo by Lizzie Krawczak

Apparel

You can add the 2023 Northwest Trail Runs apparel to your race registration and pick them up at the event, check them out 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 USATF policies forbid people from taking their dogs with them on course. If you bring your dog with you to the event, please be sure they have a safe place to wait while you are on the course.