2015 Cedar River Trail Run

09/12/2015

5-mile and Half Marathon

Saturday, September 12, 9:30am
UPDATE: This event has been postponed to Sunday, September 13

Landsburg Park, Ravensdale, WA

The Cedar River Trail is a popular destination for berry pickers, picnickers, inner tubers, and of course, trail runners! Come enjoy a golden day of late summer at a trail run with mellow hills and a fun variety of trails.

The Cedar River Trail itself is a wide and virtually flat rail trail, while the surrounding forest hosts tracks that vary from straight ample-width paths with cushy footing under tall cedars to adventurous single-track winding between salal or salmonberry with a few rocks and roots. The course is a potluck of trail types, mostly very easily runnable. After all, why load up on one entree, when you can try them all? There’s even a short beach section to add to the smorgasbord.

Come enjoy a 5-mile or half marathon on a pleasantly runnable course, then take the short trail from the finish area to the Cedar River to cool your feet off afterwards.

Results
UPDATE
Registration
Course Description
Schedule
Directions & Parking
Safety & Etiquette
Apparel

Results

2015 Results

2014 Results

UPDATE

IMPORTANT UPDATE

Event postponed to Sunday, September 13th

Dear runners,

Thank you for registering to join us for the Cedar River Trail Run. We were just informed this evening that–due to some as yet unknown snafu with the permitting–a very large equestrian group has a permit to use the same trails as our run at the same time. After conferring with one of the equestrian group’s leaders, the Northwest Trail Runs team decided that it would be unsafe for both the runners and the horseback riders to proceed with the run as scheduled.

**We are postponing the run until Sunday morning, September 13th, at 9:30am.**

We are very sorry for this inconvenience, and we hope that many of you will still be able to join us on Sunday. If you are not able to make it at the newly-scheduled time, you have our sympathies, as well as your choice of a full refund or credit of your registration amount toward a future run.

Please accept our apologies for this surprising turn of events. Rest assured that we will be talking with the permitting authorities about how to avoid similar miscommunications in the future.

Sincerely,

Eric Bone and Northwest Trail Runs

Registration

	Early (through 8/26)	Regular (through 9/10)	Day-of-Event
5-mile	29.00	34.00	40.00
Half Marathon	34.00	38.00	45.00

Online pre-registration closes Thursday, September 10th at 11:59pm.

Course Description

COURSE
There is a lot of variety on the Cedar River Trail Run course! The Cedar River Trail itself is a flat and wide rails-to-trails gravel path. The pipeline section is similarly groomed, but rolling. The trails in the surrounding forest vary greatly, ranging from straight to winding, and narrow to wide. The trail is not relentless, but always changing, creating a playful trail run course.

The trails are rocky with river rock in a few places, and in some places they wind back and forth. There are few steep sections and no major climbs. The difference between the lowest and highest part of the course is around 150 feet, which is a very modest height difference for a trail run in Washington State.

MAP: View a PDF of the course map here.

AID STATIONS
There will be three well-provisioned aid/refreshment stations, as well as an additional station with water. The 5-mile runners will pass one aid station, and the half marathon runners will pass all three, plus the water-only station.

Here are the aid station distances for each course:

5-mile:
2.55 mi, just after first road crossing, SE 248th St.

Half Marathon:
2.55 mi, just after first road crossing, SE 248th St.
7.36 mi, just before second road crossing, Summit Landsburg Road
9.96 mi, just after crossing Summit Landsburg Road again
11.13 mi, just after fourth road crossing, SE 248th St., water only

Aid stations offer water, electrolyte drink, cola at longer events, 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 bananas.

Schedule

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
8:30am – Check-in and day-of-event registration opens
9:30am – Start
1:30pm – Course closure

Directions & Parking

Parking, start, and finish are at Landsburg Park. You can park in the gravel lots on either side of Landsburg Road. If those lots are full, there is another gravel lot you can use adjacent to the south side of the river, just across the bridge from the start.

The start is in the parking lot on the west side of the road.

Google Map

Safety & Etiquette

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
Dogs are allowed on-leash at this event. Since not everyone is comfortable interacting with dogs, please only bring your dog with you on the course if you can ensure that it does not approach or otherwise interfere with other runners.

Apparel

New NWTR designs for Fall 2015, which feature our “Run Every Trail” slogan! We’ve got ’em available in a soft-feel tech (unisex, women’s and youth), long-sleeve tech, and cotton (t-shirt and hoodie). You can order them when registering and pick them up onsite, or order online and have them shipped, or try on and buy at an event.

$19 – short sleeve tech shirts, in unisex and women’s cuts

$23 – long sleeve tech shirts, in unisex and women’s cuts

$28 – cotton hoodie, unisex $19 – cotton blend t-shirt, unisex

5-mile and Half Marathon

Saturday, September 12, 9:30am UPDATE: This event has been postponed to Sunday, September 13

Landsburg Park, Ravensdale, WA

Saturday, September 12, 9:30am
UPDATE: This event has been postponed to Sunday, September 13