Description

• Sponsored by ACE Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Institute
  
  
• ACE LOCATIONS: Alexandria | Arlington/Clarendon | Fairfax / FairOaks | Falls Church / Merrifield | Herndon / Reston | Lansdowne / Leesburg | Tysons Corner / McLean / Vienna
• This event, the Washington area's GREEN race, recognizes our stewardship of our environment.
• The unique out-and-back course runs through one of the area's first environmentally-protected zones, an undeveloped meadowland where the deer and the antelope play.
• The W&OD for its entire 44-mile length is a swath of green amidst urban development all around.
• The caboose and the old Vienna station where we start and finish commemorate Virginia's history.
• The race course is a narrow (12-foot) wide paved trail, mostly flat, with a brief spur into a lovely neighborhood.  
• We offer water and aid stations at 1.5, 3.0, and 4.5 miles, as well as the start/finish. | Volunteer instructions
  
• We share the course with other users and bicyclists, so stay to the right.
• To share rides or throw sheep, join our our Facebook page
  
• To emphasize our commitment to conservation, 
        • All our printing is two-sided on recycled paper 
        • We offer on-line paperless entry 
        • You may bring your used (but not abused) running shoes to packet pick-up for recycling by More Foundation Group 
        • Our t-shirts are printed by Sport Science™ > of Vienna using an environmentally-friendly non-polluting ink fusion process, rather than traditional screen printing
• Pre-race and pot-race stretches led by ACE Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Institute
  
• Post-race, we recycle all our race-day wastes
• Timing by Safety And Health Foundation. 
        • We use the new non-touch RFID system but the old-fashioned but environmentally-friendly bib number method. 
        • Please wear your bib number visibly on the front of your shirt.
  
• Assisted by Friends of the W&OD Trail Patrol
  

Event details and schedule

• Friday, August 13 -- Pre-race packet pickup (4:00-6:00 PM) at ACE Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Institute, 2841 Hartland Road #401B, Falls Church VA 22043 (703-205-1233) - one block east of Gallows Road, one block north of Lee Highway | Directions
  
• Saturday, August 14 -- Race-day packet pick-up (4:00 PM-5:45 PM) on-site at Vienna Town Green, 144 Maple Avenue East, Vienna VA
  | Directions
  
• August 14 -- GREEN UNIVERSITY™ College of the Environment (4:00-8:00 PM) on-site at Vienna Town Green, featuring displays by environmental and other organizations
• Vienna Town Green is where the W&OD Trail crosses Maple Avenue, across from Whole Foods of Vienna at 143 Maple Avenue at Park Street. Take Metrobus 2T from Dunn Loring-Merrifield Metro Station to Maple Avenue & Center St. (Vienna)
• Call Jay Jacob Wind (703-927-4833) to be an exhibitor at College of the Environment | Please bring your own chairs, table, and tent
• Sponsors who donate $100+ get their name ($250+ for logo) on the race t-shirt & website, plus goodie bag inserts and race-day display
• Send sponsorships and 300 goodie bag inserts by July 15 to SHF, c/o Jay Jacob Wind, 611 South Ivy Street, Arlington VA 22204 
  
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  Awards: $450 in cash prizes   • $100 for 1st M & F, $75 for 2nd M/F, $50 for 3rd M/F
• Additional 10-year awards 1st / 2nd / 3rd M/F
• Totally flat, fast, scenic course | Course Map
  
• 3 water / aid stations
  
  
• Post-race music and refreshments
• We want this race the GREENEST race ever conducted.  Call us with ideas
• Benefits Friends of the W&OD Trail and SHF's charity partners