An evening of trail racing: The Bridle Trails Winter Running Festival includes 5-mile, 10-mile, 15-mile, 50K solo, 50K pair, and 50K relay races. It takes place at Bridle Trails State Park in Kirkland on the second Saturday of the year! Races start at 3:00 pm. YES, races begin in the daylight and will slowly move into darkness!

Schedule of Events

1:30 pm - Event-day check in opens

2:53 pm - Pre-start line-up and announcements

3:00 pm - All runners start (including solos, pairs, and relays)

4:43 pm - Sunset

11:00 pm - Course sweep begins by this time

12:00 am (midnight) - Course closes, all runners should check in at the finish by this time

The 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 4:43 pm, 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!

Date: January 13, 2024

Time: 3:00pm

Location:
Bridle Trails State Park,
5300 116th Avenue Northeast,
Kirkland, WA 98033.

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