2023 Spring Run For Fun @ Redmond Watershed

03/25/2023

5-mile, 10-mile, Half Marathon, Marathon

March 25, 2023

8:30am-9:35am starts

Redmond Watershed Preserve, Redmond, WA

Spring Run for Fun @ Redmond Watershed Preserve is a local favorite thanks to its flat to gently rolling course with only a few short steep climbs. Lined with beautiful forest of Douglas fir trees and lush ferns, it’s the magic carpet ride of trail runs: All the scenery of a quintessential mossy Pacific Northwest forest, but without the big hills or technical challenge of many other venues. The route follows primarily wide dirt paths, ideal for beginners and a ton of fun for veteran trail runners. This is a fast course by trail running standards!

Join us at Spring Run for Fun @ Redmond Watershed for a rewarding tour of “the Red Shed.”

Results & Photos
Registration
Youth Runner Discount
Course Description
Schedule
Directions & Parking
Apparel
Dogs, Horses & Spectators
Safety & Etiquette

Results & Photos

2023 Results & photos by Somer Kreisman

2022 Results & photos by Aaron Roche

2021 Results & photos by Ryan Thrower & Heather Gonzalez

2019 Results & photos by Takao Suzuki

2018 Results & photos by Takao Suzuki

2017 Results & photos by Takao Suzuki

2016 Results

2015 Results

Registration

	Open (through 2/2)	Early (through 2/26)	Regular (through 3/23)	Day-of-Event
5-mile	32.00	37.00	41.00	45.00
10-mile	37.00	42.00	46.00	50.00
Half Marathon	42.00	47.00	51.00	55.00
Marathon	49.00	56.00	63.00	70.00

Online pre-registration closes Thursday, March 23 at 11:59pm. Event-day registration will be available onsite, unless the event sells out.

View the registration confirmation list to verify your registration or to see who else is registered.

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.

PC: Somer Kreisman

Course Description

The 5-mile course is a lollipop loop, with runners leaving the start and returning to the finish via the same trail.

The 10-mile course is two times around the 5-mile course.

The Half-Marathon course is two identical laps, which generally follow the 5-mile course route but have two added out-and-back sections. Half-Marathon runners will pass by the aid station at the start/finish halfway through, and there will be an additional aid station passed twice at 3.54 miles into the 6.55-mile loop, for a total of three well-spaced aid stations for Half-Marathon runners.

The Marathon course is four identical laps, on the same loop as the Half-Marathon runners. Marathoners will pass by the aid station at the start/finish three times, and there will be an additional aid station 3.54 miles into the 6.55-mile Marathon course loop, for a total of seven well-spaced aid stations.

Both courses have low to moderate climb and mostly relatively wide, smooth trails, with few steep parts.

Click to view a larger PDF version.

Elevation Profiles

6.55-mile loop:

6.55-mile loop elevation profile. Click to see a larger version.

5-mile loop:

5-mile loop elevation profile. Click to see a larger version.

Aid Stations
An aid station is located at the turn-around point of the second out-and-back on the half marathon and marathon loop, about halfway (3.5 miles) into the 6.55 mile loop. There is also an aid station adjacent to the start/finish.

This means that Marathon runners will have 7 aid station stops, Half Marathon runners will have 3 aid station stops, 10-mile runners will have one aid station stop (half way), and 5-mile runners will not pass an aid station on-course. Food, water, and electrolyte drink will be available at the finish for everyone.

The 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, MARCH 25
7:30am – Check-in and day-of-event registration opens
8:20am – Marathon pre-run briefing
8:30am – Marathon Start
9:20am – Pre-run briefing, 5-mile, 10-mile, Half Marathon
9:30am – 5-mile & 10-mile Start
9:35am – Half Marathon Start
2:30pm – Cutoff for Marathon runners to start fourth lap
4:30pm – Course closes

PC: Ryan Thrower

Directions & Parking

Here are Google directions to the Bear Creek Park & Ride. Unless you are part of a three-or-more person carpool, we ask that you use this offsite parking and take a shuttle to the start. Carpools of three or more may park in the paved lot near the start while space is available.

Offsite Parking and Shuttle
Due to the number of runners participating and the small size of the lot in the park, parking for this run will be offsite, and there will be a shuttle bus to take you to the start and back to your car after you finish. The Bear Creek Park & Ride lot is about four miles from the start. Please allow an additional 15 minutes to get from the remote parking to the start. Even with the offsite lot, there is limited parking, and we encourage carpooling. Carpools of three or more people are welcome to park in the paved lot at Redmond Watershed while there is room. There is also some street parking along NE Marketplace Drive, to the West of Redmond Ridge Dr. NE. It is a less than a mile jog from there to the start.

Masks covering the nose and mouth must be worn while on the shuttle buses.

Shuttle schedule:

7:00am – first shuttle from Bear Creek Park & Ride (three shuttles will be making trips back and forth, one leaving approximately every 5-10 minutes)

9:10am – last shuttle from Bear Creek Park & Ride to the check-in and start

10:20am – first shuttle from Redmond Watershed parking lot to Bear Creek Park & Ride

4:00pm – last shuttle from Redmond Watershed parking lot to Bear Creek Park & Ride

Carpools of 3 or more will be allowed to park in the Redmond Watershed parking lot while spots are available.

PC: Aaron Roche

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

Dogs, Horses & Spectators

DOGS
Pets are NOT allowed in the Watershed Preserve, so please leave your canine companions at home.

HORSES & OTHER USERS
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, and 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 past, but sometimes the rider will tell you it is okay to walk past. The amount of trail traffic will depend upon the weather.

Safety & Etiquette

SAFETY
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 & RESPIRATORY VIRUS SAFETY

Outdoors settings are among the safest, due to the open air dissipating virus particles to greatly reduce the risk of transmission. However, especially if virus season is still hanging on by event day, please continue to take simple precautions:

Get your flu and COVID-19 shots when possible
Mask wearing is generally not required at our events, but you are welcome to wear a mask if you feel it is best for your own health
Please stay home if you are sick (with any contagious respiratory virus); we’ll happily give you a credit toward another race or a full refund
Keep a six foot distance from others when it is practical, or at least avoid being in close proximity for a long time in still air
Limit touching of shared surfaces and items, and clean your hands before and after
We encourage you to wear a mask when riding a shuttle bus

Thank you for helping us keep our events safe and fun for you and everyone else!

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.