Meet Information
Boys Race: 5:00pm
Girls Race: 5:45pm
We've developed a different cross country course for Lake Fairfax to reduce athlete safety issues related to large amounts of car traffic in the upper fields at Lake Fairfax.
This race will start and finish in the lower picnic area across from the Watermine parking area. Please encourage bus drivers and spectators to park in the Watermine parking area to help avoid runner congestion in the parking areas near the bridge and the lower pavilion area. Weve had parked cars and buses interfere with races in the past and hope that isnt the case again.
Course Description
The runners will start in the lower picnic area and run uphill for about 300 meters along the wooden fence inside the flag markings. They will run around two trees and an orange cone near the park gate then run down hill following the flags at all times until they cross the bridge and turn sharp left into the grassy area (see map). Runners are not to run on the asphalt road.
Following the flags near the stream, runners will take a right turn and head up the gravel hill. The one mile mark is on the hill. Runners will continue on the gravel trail and then follow flags to the area known as the Cricket Field. Runners will run all four corners of the field following cones and flags. Runners will then run another smaller loop on the field. The second loop will be clearly marked and there will be a course marshal.
After completing the second loop, runners will head down the gravel trail they took earlier, and follow all the cones and flags they originally ran until they again cross the bridge and then take a sharp right turn after bridge. At that point its about 200 meters to the finish line.
This is a 5K course. Two significant hills and spike friendly.
