Early Fee Pre-registration Deadline Extended to Thursday, April 10th
Combining three of the Williamsburg area’s finest running trails, you don’t want to miss racing the inaugural version of this classic flat, fast and scenic 10K course combining the Virginia Capital Trail, the Powhatan Creek Trail and the Greensprings Trail
Also featuring a post-race concert of rock classics by Nicholas Schacht, and an awards ceremony and refreshments on a bluff overlooking the James River
The early fee deadline has been extended to this Thursday, April 10th, through the www.raceit.com website. Save $5 by pre-registering as opposed to entering race morning. The exact online entry link is:
Online entry at https://www.raceit.com/Register/?event=26077
Or you can drop off your Jamestown 4-H 10K Run race entry by Thursday afternoon at either Colonial Sports, Colony Square Shopping Center, 1303 Jamestown Road #111, Williamsburg 23185 (next to ReStore), or at the Jamestown 4-H Educational Center office at 3751 4-H Club Road, Williamsburg 23185. (757-253-4198) Race website is http://jamestown4hcenter.org/jamestown-10k/ and a .PDF entry is at http://jamestown4hcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jamestown-10K-registration-form1.pdf
Saturday, April 12 – Jamestown 4-H 10K Run, 9:00 a.m.; 1 mile fun run, 8:30 a.m.; Jamestown 4-H Educational Center, 3751 4-H Club Road, Williamsburg 23185. New race to 2014 CRR Grand Prix schedule. Scenic, flat, fast course combining three of Williamsburg ’s finest recreational trails, the Virginia Capital Trail, the Powhatan Creek Trail, and the Greensprings Trail. Only one small hill, otherwise totally flat. Post-race musical entertainment by Nicholas Schacht. Proceeds benefit the Jamestown 4-H Educational Center Camp Scholarship Fund. Contact: Ruben Brown (757-604-2130). Email: rubrown1@vt.edu.
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Entry forms for all Colonial Road Runners races can be obtained online, and further information (club membership, club workouts, race results, articles) on the CRR can be found at: www.colonialroadrunners.org. Colonial Road Runners contact: Rick Platt (757-229-7375 or 757-345-1431 cell). Email: rickplatt1@juno.com
CRR race entry forms are also available at all CRR races, and at Colonial Sports at their new store location in the Colony Square Shopping Center , 1303 Jamestown Road #111 , Williamsburg (next to ReStore).
Entry forms are available now for all CRR races through the end of June 2014. Entries can be made online for most CRR races at www.raceit.com
Jamestown 4-H 10K Run
Course: A beautiful, historic, scenic, varied and almost totally flat course combining three of the Williamsburg area’s finest trails—the Virginia Capital Trail, the Powhatan Creek Trail and the Greensprings Trail. The 10K will start and finish at the Jamestown 4-H Center, at the end of the 4-H Club entrance road. The course is entirely paved (with a few scenic wooden bridges) except for a one-mile stretch on the well-maintained crushed-stone Greensprings Trail, and the hard-packed dirt 4-H Club Road start and finish.
After .4 miles on the 4-H Club Road , the course crosses Greensprings Road to get onto the Virginia Capital Trail (a wide, multi-recreational path which goes from Jamestown to Richmond ). A short distance down the trail there will be several Virginia Historical Markers for historic sites that the course will pass through:
Governor’s Land—Originally a 3,000-acre tract between the James River and Powhatan Creek, set aside by the Virginia Company of London in 1618.
Mainland Farm—the oldest continuously cultivated farm in America .
The Battle of Green Spring—The July 6, 1781 Revolutionary War battle between Marquis de Lafayette and Brigadier General “Mad” Anthony Wayne of the American forces against Cornwallis and Tarleton of the British.
Around the one-mile point, the course takes a right turn onto the asphalt Powhatan Creek Trail for an out-and-back section on the flat and open portion of the trail, then on the return route takes a right turn to enter the Greensprings Trail, a one-mile section of a well-maintained, crushed-stone path through beautiful woods, marshes and wetlands. A mile later, at the exit of the Greensprings Trail, there is the only significant elevation change on the fast and flat 10K course, a short hill coming up to the trailhead of the Greensprings Trail. The course will then proceed down Eagle Way , the road next to Jamestown High School , and take a left onto the bike path connecting the high school to the Virginia Capital Trail, where it will go right for a ½-mile out-and-back stretch before a turnaround point before Greensprings Road .
The final two miles of the 10K will return on the Virginia Capital Trail to a crossing of Greensprings Road and a final .4-mile sprint down the hard-packed dirt Jamestown 4-H Club entrance road to the finish line at the camp headquarters and a great post-race party, musical entertainment, and awards ceremony on a bluff overlooking the James River.
Registration: Pre-registration will be $30 for the race. Race day registration $35. Fun run pre-registration is $15, race day $20.
Online entry at https://www.raceit.com/Register/?event=26077
A Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix Event.
Colonial Road Runners website: www.colonialroadrunners.org
Rick Platt, President
Colonial Road Runners
113 Anthony Wayne Rd.
Williamsburg , VA 23185
Phone 757-229-7375
Cell 757-345-1431
rickplatt1@juno.com
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