Run With The Kokanee

10/15/2022

5k & 10k

Saturday, October 15, 2022 9:30am

Lake Sammamish State Park and East Lake Sammamish Trail, Issaquah, WA

Your entry helps support the Kokanee Salmon recovery work of the Three Rivers 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 fishermen to properly identify Kokanee, educating residents about environmentally-friendly lawn care, and more.

The Three Rivers Chapter was recently awarded the King County Green Globe Award for their work on recovering the Lake Samammish Kokanee!

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

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

Registration

	Open (through 9/4)	Early (through 9/21)	Regular (through 10/13)	Event Day
5km	27.00	31.00	36.00	40.00
10km	32.00	36.00	41.00	45.00

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

Day-of-event registration will be available by cash, card or check made payable to Northwest Trail Runs.

You can check to see who is signed up on the registration confirmation list.

Results & Photos

2022 Results & photos by Aaron Roche

2021 Results

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

T-shirt

All pre-registered runners will receive a FREE tech t-shirt featuring the custom salmon artwork by Shaun Peterson! T-shirts come in Medium Youth – Adult XXL and are unisex. We cannot guarantee shirt availability for anyone registering on event-day.

Course Description

New for this year: To avoid major construction in the park, the course is a 5k out-and-back along the smoothly-paved East Lake Sammamish Trail. Participants in the 5k will do this out-and-back once, and 10k participants will do it twice.

Click on the map above for a high-resolution course map (894 KB PDF)

Aid Station
There will be one aid station at the turn-around point, about 1.6 miles into the course. There will be an additional aid station near the start/finish for the 10k runners, making for three aid stations on the 10k course.

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 15

8:30am – Check-in and day-of-event registration opens

9:30am – Race Start

10:30am – Raffle and awards

12:00pm – Course closes

COVID-19, Cold, & Flu Safety Measures

Thanks to vaccination, exposure, and time, there is a high degree of immune resistance to COVID-19, and some people have already gotten their seasonal flu shots. Outdoors settings are generally quite safe, and we’re not requiring any specific precautions, but we endorse these common-sense precautions:

Stay home if you’re sick or believe you have a contagious illness
Wear a mask when indoors or in close proximity to others if you wish to reduce your own risk of catching a cold, COVID-19, or a flu

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

Directions & Parking

Parking and the start are at the boat launch, a different location than usual this year, due to major construction in the park.

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 the Discover Pass website for details.

Google Map

Post-Race Festivities

Stick around after the race for awards, a raffle, and refreshments.

Our thanks for being mindful of our COVID-19 safety guidelines.

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
Please read more about our COVID-19 safety measures in that section of the web page (above.)

PASSING ETIQUETTE
When passing on narrow parts of the course, please announce your intention in advance. And 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 under the USATF policies dogs are not allowed on course.