Wood You Rather

Wood You Rather
Saturday, Apr 15, 2023 at 8:00am
4099 NW Thurman St

This is a different style race, where you get to choose where you go. It’s a checkpoint run in the woods. There is no pre-set course. Instead, you’ll receive a map, at the start of the race, with ten checkpoints highlighted. You decide where you will run to get to each of them. Wood you rather go up that trail or around and down to get the checkpoint? The winner is the first person who gets the most the checkpoints and gets back to the finish in the fastest time. You have two-and-a-half hours to get as many checkpoints as you can and make it back to the finish line.

You decide which trails you want to take and in what order you acquire each checkpoint. There’s some strategy involved here! Do you run up that trail because it is a shorter route, or go around on another trail to get the checkpoint from above so you don’t have to go uphill as much? Depending on the route you choose, you can expect to run around 7.5 to 11 miles with 1200 to 1600′ of gain. But this is all up to you!

The start of this will be really fun to watch as everyone takes off in different directions.

Schedule:

Start: 8:00 a.m.
Checkpoints Shut Down: 10:00 a.m.
Finish Line Closes & Awards Ceremony: 10:30 a.m.

Course:

There isn’t a course for Wood You Rather. At least not in the usual trail race manner. The park is your course. Oh, and there are no course markings to follow.

Instead, runners are given a map with checkpoints. The trails and topo lines are shown on the map. Using your map, you get to choose which trails you use to get to as many checkpoints as you can.

The checkpoints are manned by volunteers who will mark your map to prove you were there. Don’t loose your map as you’ll turn it in when your finish.

All participants must stay on trail and stay ‘in-bounds’, meaning you cannot go out-of-bounds as marked on the map.

The course distance is determined by the route you choose. It will likely be between 7.5 and 10 miles if you get all the checkpoints.

Awards:

Each finisher earns a Wood You Rather glass and the top male, top female, top non-binary, and top team all earn prizes.

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