Thank you for entering Friends of the W&OD 10K Saturday, August 1, 2015 – 6:30 PM www.safetyandhealthfoundation.org/friends Centennial Park, 131 Church Street NE, Vienna VA presented by ACE Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Institute, Safety And Health Foundation, and Friends of the W&OD Trail As stewards of our environment, we present the DC area’s “green” race. We recycle, reduce, and re-use everything we can. All our printing is two-sided on recycled paper; we host a College of the Environment before and after the race; our t-shirts are printed using a non-polluting fusion process, rather than traditional screen printing; and we recycle all our race-day wastes. We hope our College of the Environment inspires you. Come meet our exhibitors and sponsors. We award a special prize to everyone who visits all of our exhibitors. Look in your goodie bag for this welcome letter, which has a checklist of our exhibitors. Visit ALL exhibitors, get all of them to check off that you visited, and return your welcome letter to the registration table for a special award at the awards presentation. Exhibitors: o ACE Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Institute o Aspire Natural Sports Drinks (recycle your Aspire bottle at their collection box) o Athleta o BOWA Transforming Houses into Homes o Breakout Running o Engineers Without Borders o Historic Vienna Inc. at Freeman House (across Church Street, a short walk from the exhibit area) o Glory Days Grill (recycle your water bottles at Aspire's exhibit) <> o Koons Tysons Scion o McAdam Financial o Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority / Meadowlark Gardens (say hello to roving naturalist David Garcia with the snake and the turtle) o Passanante’s Home Food Services o PNC Bank o Potomac Appalachian Trail Club o Qore Performance (also not on the printed list) o Renewal By Andersen o The Women's Center of Vienna We thank ACE Physical Therapy and DC Capital Striders for staffing registration and assisting at our aid stations. The race starts and finishes on W&OD Trail at the third stripe 30 meters west of Ayr Hill Road. On W&OD Trail, please stay on the right side so bicyclists and other users can enjoy the trail during the race. On the way outbound, at 1.5 miles, turn right at the aid station at Clark's Crossing, run through the small parking lot, turn left onto Batten Hollow but stay right, turn around left at the fireplug near Kohoutek Court and stay right. When you return to Clark's Crossing, turn right and stay right, then pass the aid station and turn right back onto W&OD Trail. At the aid station at Hunter Mill Road (3.3 miles), bear right onto the unpaved gravel path, then turn left around the cones and run straight back on the paved W&OD Trail, with no turn at the aid station at Clark's Crossing (4.5 miles). PRE-RACE: o Thursday, July 30, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM -- Packet pick-up, Athleta, 8034 Tysons Corner Center, McLean VA 22102, 2nd floor, Nordstrom entrance (703-388-2870 x 8) o Friday, July 31, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM -- Packet pick-up at ACE Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Institute, Falls Church RACE-DAY: o On race day, Saturday, August 1, College of the Environment exhibitors arrive about 4:00 PM. Come early if you want to help an exhibitor to set up o On-site packet pick-up and race-day registration are open 4:15 PM to 6:15 PM in front of old red caboose next to W&OD trail at Centennial Park, 131 Church Street NE, Vienna VA, across Church Street from Historic Vienna Inc. at Freeman House o Our 9th annual College of the Environment with exhibitors in Centennial Park between Church Street and Ayr Hill Road, plus Freeman House across Church Street, are open 4:15 PM to 8:00 PM. Come meet our exhibitors and sponsors o We present a special award to everyone who visits all our exhibitors and gets each exhibitor's initials on your form. o Please return your form to the registration table by 7:45 PM o At packet pick-up, get your t-shirt, goodie bag, and bib number. o Please wear your bib number visibly on the front of your shirt, and please DO NOT PIN through the name tag at the bottom or remove it – we pull those name tags at the end to score the race as a backup to electronic timing o At 6:00 PM, Ace Physical Therapy presents a pre-race warm-up in front of the old Vienna train station. Come join us! o At 6:15 PM, we move to the start line across Ayr Hill to introduce our dignitaries including Virginia State Senator Chap Petersen, who has run our race almost every year, any Adopt-A-Trail members on hand, and our official starter, to be announced o At 6:25 PM, we play the National Anthem and give pre-race instructions o At 6:29 PM, we start baby-strollers o At 6:30 PM, we start runners o After you finish, enjoy post-race refreshments from Aspire Beverages, Glory Days Grill, Great Harvest Bakery, Mario’s Pizza House, and Whole Foods Market of Vienna o At 7:45 PM, we present awards, including cash prizes of $250, $150, and $100 for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd male/female overall, and gift packages from Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, Altra Running Shoes, Athleta, Caboose Brewing Co., Glory Days Grill, Great American Restaurants, Metro 29 Diner, Qore Performance, Passanante’s Home Food Services, and other sponsors for age-group winners o Post-race, we recycle everything and make the campground cleaner than we found it. Please recycle everything in our bins o Repurpose your used (but not abused) athletic shoes. Bring them to our collection point at College of the Environment for More Foundation Group’s recycling (www.morefoundationgroup.org) (formerly Perpetual Prosperity Pumps Foundation) o Portable toilets are east of the caboose at Church Street and at Hunter Mill Road o We thank our volunteers from DC Capital Striders and W&OD Trail Patrol; our College of the Environment leaders Karla McDuffie and Kenny Trinh; Friends of the W&OD president Roger Neighborgall, vice-president Pat Turner, and other FoWOD directors and Trail Patrol members; Karl Mohle and his team from Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, and our sponsors: o ACE Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Institute, leading pre-race warm-up at 6:00 PM and pre-race / post-race musculo-skeletal evaluations o Aspire Natural Sports Drinks o Athleta at Tysons Corner o BOWA Transforming Houses into Homes o Breakout Running o Glory Days Grill o Great Harvest Bakery o Koons Tysons Scion o Mario’s Pizza House o McAdam Financial o Metro 29 Diner o PNC Bank o Renewal By Andersen o SmartyPants Vitamins o Whole Foods Market of Vienna POST-RACE o Post-race, we welcome your comments and your photos on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/groups/FriendsOfTheWOD10K or by e-mail to racedirector@att.net o We publish full results at www.safetyandhealthfoundation.org/20150801.html as soon as possible after the race o Have fun, enjoy, be safe, and thank you for joining us! Sincerely, Jay Jacob Wind Secretary, Friends of the W&OD Trail Director, Safety And Health Foundation WEATHER ALERT A little rain won't stop us. We had more than a little rain last year. In case of a thunderstorm, however, we will delay the start until we get an all-clear signal from Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.