Saturday, Jan 11, 2025 at 3:00pm
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! All races start at 3:00 PM.
Seeing how fragile our trails and neighborhoods can be after November’s storm, SRC and Northwest Trail Runs are extra grateful to the organizations we work with to host events like Bridle Trails Winter Running Festival. WA State Parks, along with locals in the area, have been working around the clock clearing the Bridle Trails area. It’s been reported they have cut through 100 trees on the main trails alone.
Event Schedule:
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
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!
