Bridle Trails Winter Running Festival

A winter evening of trail racing! The Bridle Trails Winter Running Festival includes 5-mile, 10-mile, 50K solo, 50K pair, and 50K relay races.

Races start at 3:00pm. YES, races begin in the daylight and will slowly move into darkness!

You must have or purchase from the park staff a Discover Pass to park inside Bridle Trails State Park.

SCHEDULE

1:30 p.m. — Event-day check in opens
2:53 p.m. — Pre-start line-up and announcements

ALL races will start at 3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m. — 5-mile runners start
3:00 p.m. — 10-mile runners start
3:00 p.m. — 50k runners start (including solos, pairs, and relays)

4:44 p.m. — Sunset
11:00 p.m. — Course sweep begins by this time
12:00 a.m. midnight — Course closes, all runners should check in at the finish by this time

COURSE

All runners will use the same 5.2-mile loop of trails, mostly going clockwise around the perimeter of the park. The route will be marked with orange and white streamers, as well as yellow glow sticks after dark. Some sections of the trail are rough, rutted, or muddy, and it is Winter, so please watch your footing, and expect to get wet and dirty. Sunset is at 4:36pm, and it will get dark under the forest canopy pretty quickly after that. If there is a good chance you’ll be on the course after that time, please bring a headlamp with enough battery life to get you to the finish!

CREDITS

This run is produced by Northwest Trail Runs and Seattle Running Club. Our thanks to Bridle Trails State Park for hosting us. Thanks also to the many volunteers who are a vital part of events like this one.

And a special thanks to Chris Ralph for starting this run and to Scott & Leslie McCoubrey and Eric Sach for their years of organizing this and other runs and for their support and guidance as we carry the torch.

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