Pine Run 20K

[The below is for the 2023 race—2024 updates are coming]

Saturday, October 14, 2023
Tall Timbers Research Station, 13093 Henry Beadel Drive off CR 12, northern Leon County
7:30–10:30 a.m.  (3 Hour Cutoff) • Race day registration available 6:45–7:15 a.m.

Registration
GWTC Members:
$35 with shirt—available until Sept 21
$20 without shirt
Non-members:
$40 with shirt—available until Sept 21
$25 without shirt
Race day registration is $25 for GWTC members, $30 for nonmembers
Race day shirts $15 (if still available)

**See the 2023 shirt design below!**

Awards
REI 17-liter soft-sided cooler awarded to
Top Overall man and woman
Top Master and Grandmaster men and women
Top men and women in 5-year age groups

Course
This is a gorgeous course that we only have access to once a year—at the Pine Run. It's a challenging route on undulating, grassy trails and double track jeep roads through beautiful piney uplands and Lake Iamonia bottomland. There are some tough hills, but you'll be rewarded for your climb with stunning views of wildflowers, the lake, and miles of pine forests.

A course map is shown below. For for a 20K run through a large forest, a "point-by-point" view just isn't possible, but the map can give a general sense, and here are some additional details:

• The course starts and ends at the Beadel House, running counter-clockwise in an oblong twisted circle.
• The course is liberally marked with pink flags (and where needed, we have directional signs and volunteers).
• The TWO out-and-backs each go out about 3/4ths of a mile. The first starts around Mile 5.0 and the second starts around Mile 8.30. There are water stations at the end of each one.
• You arrive back near the Beadel House for the first time at about Mile 10.80—but you still have a ways to go (about 1.6), starting with the "The Horseshoe" that takes you briefly toward the Van Brunt Arm of Lake Iamonia before sending you back up a hill that you will remember.  
• Shortly after hitting Mile 12.0, you reemerge from the forest and take a left on the main gravel road (where you started 12 short miles ago). You finish at the Beadel house shortly thereafter, giving you lifetime bragging rights as a PINE RUN FINISHER!  

Aid stations
Water and Gatorade at approx. 3, 6, &  9 mile markers
Post race social on the grounds (BYOB) with music and refreshments

Packet pickup
• Picking up your bib (and shirt if you ordered one) on Thursday before the race helps race day run smoother for all of us,
and everyone who picks up their bib at REI Co-op on Thursday, 5-7:30 p.m. will be entered to win a $30 REI gift card!
1415 Timberlane Rd #201, Tallahassee 
• Race day bib pickup 6:45–7:15 a.m.

Additional Information
Text race directors Carter Hay (850-294-9388) or Jennifer Hay (850-294-9395)

THANK YOU REI CO-OP
A huge thank you to REI Co-op for sponsoring this year's race.
Watch for Tallahassee REI staff running the race, helping on the course, and greeting you at the finish line.