Tahoe Rim Trail Runs 50k/50Mi/100Mi

• 07/17/2010 5:00 AM

• Carson City, NV

• no calls

• http://sagebrushstompers.org/trt50/index.html

• The 100 Mile event is the RRCA National Ultra Championship. Both the 50K & 50-Mile events will begin at 6:00 a.m. The course briefing will begin 10 minutes before the start of the race at Stonhenge within the Spooner Lake State Park. The 100-Mile event will start at 5:00 a.m. AID STATIONS There are a total of six full-service aid stations (which include water, sport drink, salt foods, sugar foods, fruit, sandwiches, energy bars and more) and two "water/electrolyte/gel only" aid stations. Some aid stations will be visited more than once:

• THE AWARDS CEREMONY WILL BE HELD AT THE NEVADA STATE CAPITOL LEGISLATIVE PARK IN CARSON CITY ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON BEGINNING AT 4:30 P.M. THIS INCLUDES 50K AND 50M OVERALL WINNERS IN BOTH THE OPEN AND MASTERS CATEGORIES (50K and 50M division winners and finishers can pick up their awards at Spooner Lake State Park on Saturday). We'll once again provide special division awards unique to the TRT 50K/50M/100M event. Our sponsors have also contributed: 1st Place, Men & Women, All Distances: A Performance Apparel Jacket, personalized with embroidered name, distance and event logo. 2nd Place, Men & Women, All Distances: One pair of North Face trail running shoes. 3rd Place, Men & Women, All Distances: TBD. One hundred mile finishers will receive a hand-made, unique finisher buckle that represents the Great State of Nevada and it's only 100-Mile Endurance Run. Actually, there are three buckles; sub-24 hour, sub-30 hour and sub-35 hour. The sub-24 hour is a nickel buckle with a gold plated silver medallion inset in the buckle (both sides will be visible). On one side will be the Tahoe Rim Trail "trail shoe" logo and the other side will be the Seal of the Great State of Nevada. The sub-30 hour buckle is the same but the medallion will be silver. The sub-35 hour buckle is bronze with the silver medallion.

• The 50K course has been described as a "bent over stick figure" (you'll probably have to take a look at the course map to fully understand). The 50-mile and 100-mile events follow the same course with the addition of a challenging 9-mile out and back (18 mile total) starting around mile 17. All courses are on predominately single track trail but each have approximately 10 miles on dirt roads. The 100-mile course is a double loop of the 50-mile course. The start/finish at Spooner Lake State Park is at 7000 feet. The low point in the event is at the bottom of the Red House Loop at approximately 6800 feet. The highest point in the course is 9,000 feet, just north of the Snow Valley Peak Aid Station. The elevation of Snow Valley Peak is 9214 feet.

• No event parking will be allowed within the Spooner Lake State Park because it is extremely limited and the park is still open for general visitors. We are providing ample FREE satellite parking nearby at Spooner Junction approximately 1/2-mile from the park. Shuttle vans will be available before and after the race to transport participants, family and friends to and from the event site. Participants are encouraged to arrive early to allow for the extra time needed to shuttle to the event site. We'll provide secure bag storage at the start/finish area. There will be two 47-passenger coaches available to transport participants from the host hotel in Carson City to the event start on race day. Both coaches will have two departing time, TBA. Shuttle vans will be available post-event to transport runners back to the host hotel.