Winter Wonder-Woodland – CONFIRMED

12/19/2020

5k & 8k

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Woodland Park, Seattle WA

The 2020 Covid-safe edition of the Winter Trail Series rolls on at Woodland Park, in Seattle, WA, with individual starts and other safety measures in place!

The Winter Wonder-Woodland course is a novel departure in character from many of our other events. The shorter course is a loop of Seattle’s favorite running venue: Green Lake. The long course adds a loop through the savanna-like Woodland Park to the lap of the lake, touring both open and lightly-wooded areas of the park, weaving between sports fields, and traversing the trails through the more deeply-wooded ravines. The profile of the lake loop is nearly flat, while the part of the long course in Woodland Park varies from flat, to gently-rolling, to short and steep climbs and drops.

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!

2020-21 WINTER TRAIL SERIES

NOV 7 – CARKEEK COOLER – CONFIRMED
5k & 10k, Carkeek Park, Seattle, WA

NOV 21 -RAVENNA REFRESHER – CONFIRMED
4k, 8k, 12k, Ravenna Park, Seattle, WA

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

DEC 19 – WOODLAND WONDERLAND – CONFIRMED
5k & 8k, Woodland Park, Seattle, WA

JAN 3 – ABSOLUTION RUN – CONFIRMED
5k & 10k, Paradise Valley Conservation Area, Woodinville, WA

JAN 23 – FROST EAGLE – CONFIRMED
5-mile & Half Marathon, Soaring Eagle Park, Sammamish, WA

FEB 6 – INTERLAKEN ICICLE DASH – CONFIRMED
5k & 10k, Interlaken Park, Seattle, WA

SERIES SWAG

Are you motivated by swag?

Consistency pays off! Participate in four or more of the Winter Trail Series events in the 2020-21 season listed above and you’ll be awarded a Winter Trail Series neck gaiter to recognize your achievement.

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 2020-21 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

2020 Results & Photos by Taryn Graham

Registration

Start Times:

The confirmation list includes start times.

All start blocks before 11:00 AM are full. There is room available in the start list only after 11:00 AM.

	Open (through 11/6)	Early (through 11/27)	Regular (through 12/17)	Day-of-Event
5k	23.00	26.00	29.00	35.00
8k	28.00	31.00	34.00	40.00

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, December 17 at 11:59pm.

Day-of-event registration is available for start times after 11:00 AM by credit card, by cash in exact change, or by check made payable to Northwest Trail Runs.

COVID-19 Safety Measures

Part of our duty as event organizers is to plan carefully for safety. We take this responsibility seriously, and we appreciate the trust you place in us by coming to our events. The COVID-19 pandemic meant a pause for our events that has just ended, but it has also meant a lot of extra work over the intervening months adapting our events to mitigate the new risks of the pandemic.

Because confusing and often conflicting or politicized information has created doubt and uncertainty about safety and relative risk, we want to briefly address the basic safety of trail running: The consensus opinion of the infectious disease experts is that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is far less likely to transmit from person to person outdoors, primarily due to the movement of air dispersing virus-bearing droplets to a low concentration that is unlikely to result in infection. Outdoor transmission is still possible, but studies of the origin of cases seem to suggest that it is roughly 100 times less likely that any given case will have resulted from outdoor transmission.

It is also the case that brief contact with a contagious person is far less likely to result in viral transmission than sustained close proximity. Taken together with the relative safety of being outdoors, this means that if you briefly pass close by an infected person on the trail, there is only a vanishingly small chance of you catching the virus from them and getting infected. Of course we still want to take precautions to mitigate small risks, but with reasonable modifications, we believe that trail running events can be one of the safest and most health-promoting things you can do during the pandemic.

Our staff has been looking toward expert guidance—including from health and labor departments at the State of Washington (via the guidance from the Governor’s office) and numerous email bulletins and web resources from the Centers for Disease Control—as we implement extensive safety protocols to eliminate unnecessary risks. The list of steps we are taking is long and growing in detail, so we won’t include it here, but the general areas we are emphasizing are physical distancing, PPE/masks/hygiene, sanitizing, screening, staffing for safety, communications & training.

You have an important role to play in facilitating a safe event, and we ask that you follow #RecreateResponsibly guidelines and adhere to the guidelines below to help us keep you and our broader community safe:

Maintain Physical Distancing

Avoid gathering around others, and keep at least a six-foot interpersonal distance from anyone not in your household whenever possible
Travel to and from the event only with people in your household. Normally we encourage carpooling, but this is not the time for it.
Plan ahead so that you don’t need to make any extra stops on your way to or from the event. This is to eliminate unnecessary contact with others.
Arrive at the event site no earlier than you need to in order to comfortably check in and prepare to start, and at most one hour before your start time. If you arrive with extra time, please stay in your car or take a walk away from the event area in order to facilitate distancing for yourself and others.
Depart the event site promptly after you finish and complete your post-exercise routine
Unless you are passing, please maintain at least a 20-foot distance when following other runners going a similar speed on the course. Announce yourself when you intend to pass someone else on the trail, wait for a relatively wide spot, and allow time for the person you are passing to step to one side of the trail.

Wear a Mask & Practice Good Hygiene

Wear a mask or face covering at the event, only taking it off when you are about to start or are eating or drinking. You may want to bring a small plastic bag for your mask, so that you can put it in an easily accessible pocket when you aren’t wearing it.
Wash your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds or use hand sanitizer frequently, plus immediately after contact with respiratory fluids or possibly contaminated objects, like portable toilet doors and other commonly-touched surfaces.
If you need to cough or sneeze please cover it with a tissue (which you should then throw away as soon as possible) or with your elbow.
Avoid touching your mouth, nose, and eyes.
When taking your bib number, drinks, snacks, or any other items, please use care to touch only the item(s) you are taking. Drinks and snacks will be served in individual portions only, and common water and snack containers are to be touched by staff only.

Stay Home if You’re Sick or Vulnerable

Do not attend the event if you have a temperature of 100.4F or greater, feel sick, or believe you may have recently been exposed to the COVID-19 virus
Do not attend the event if you are a member of a high-risk group or are in close contact with one or more people in a high-risk group (per CDC: 65+, immune compromised, having another health condition that exacerbates COVID-19)
If you begin to experience the flu-like symptoms of COVID-19 while you are at the event, please immediately notify a staff person (at a safe distance) and self-quarantine away from others until you are able to safely depart the event

We will ask you to affirmatively agree to abide by this code of conduct before you participate in the event. We also ask that we be allowed to contact you after the event if we discover that someone at the event was sick and have reason to believe you may have been exposed. If you become sick soon after attending the event, we would appreciate you letting us know, so that we can track potential risk to our staff and other participants.

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 (if available).

Course Description

These are new courses for us this year, with the 5k course making a lap of Green Lake, first using the outer gravel path, then using the inner paved path, with a few shortcuts. The 8k course starts with the 5k loop, passes next to the finish, then makes a loop through Woodland Park, using part of the route from our Woodland Park Zoom event before returning to Green Lake for the finish.

The loop around Green Lake is nearly flat, with mostly very fast footing on hard-packed gravel/dirt trails or the paved pathway, but also a few short sections over grass or smaller paths. Woodland Park is mostly a savanna-like mix of grassy areas and widely-spaced trees over rolling hills. There are also steeper, more densely forested areas and a large, flat area of sports fields. The loop visits all areas of Woodland Park (Lower Woodland Park, not the zoo area.) The footing is pretty good, so the biggest challenge for 8k runners will be the hills.

Here are links to approximate route maps:

There will be an aid station with individually-portioned water and electrolyte drink and snacks near the start/finish, so that 8k runners can access it before embarking on the final loop.

Schedule

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19
7:45am – Check-in and day-of-event registration opens
8:30am – First start
1:30pm – Last start
3:00pm – Course closes

This schedule is according to the guidelines in place at the time the event was confirmed and are subject to change if the park changes their requirements.

Directions & Parking

The start and finish will be on the north side of the track at Lower Woodland Park, at the south end of Green Lake and along the closed section of West Green Lake Way N.

There is ample parking in the lots to the south of the start and finish area, next to the track and the softball fields along the west side of Green Lake Way N. The construction in the area may impact some of the parking lot entrances, however there are multiple entrances between the start and finish near the start and finish area is closed. Here is a link for directions to the venue. The start and finish are just north of the track.

Apparel

The Northwest Trail Runs design for Fall 2019 through Fall 2020 features our “Run Every Trail” slogan with an inspiring mountain motif! You can order apparel when 1) registering and pick them up at the event, 2) order at RunningBug Apparel and have them shipped.

$18.10 + tax – short sleeve tech shirts, in unisex, women’s cuts & youth, cotton t-shirts
$27.20 + tax – cotton hoodie, unisex
$22.70 + tax – long sleeve tech shirts, in unisex and women’s cut

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 certificated and under the USATF policies, dogs are not allowed on course.