2021 College Park parkrun #1: Info

Saturday, August 28, 2021

There will not be transportation from DeMatha for this meet. Please have your sons at the parkrun no later than 8:00am so that we can properly go through our warmup drills before the race begins at 9am.

Note the following details:

Location

Paint Branch Trail

4289 Metzerott Road

College Park, MD 20740

Meet Schedule

8:00a - Warm up

9:00a - Open Race (all athletes)

Estimated Departure

Approx. 10am

    We are a team, so we will wait for everybody to complete the run and then we will go through our cool down stretching routine as a team before we depart for the day.

Athletes:

• • Because this is not a school sanctioned event, we cannot wear racing jerseys.

  • Wear your training shoes. No spikes for this run as the course is entirely on asphalt.

Registration

The parkrun is not a DeMatha sanctioned meet, so this is not a race I can register you/your son for. If you have never registered for a parkrun before, go to this link to register.

If you have previously run at a parkrun event, at College Park or anywhere else, and you don't know how to log in, go to this link instead for help accessing your profile. Please do not create a new account if you already have one.

During registration, under "Home Run," it doesn't really matter which you select, but the College Park option makes the most sense since you will likely run that one more often than you will any other parkrun in the immediate future.

You can leave the Running Club as "unattached," which is the default.

Once you finish filling everything out, click "Check Form." It may take a moment, but it will take you to a page that asks for you to check everything and verify that it is correct. Once you have done so, click "Register Me."

Within 20 minutes (it was about 30 seconds for me when I registered), you will receive an email confirmation. In the email will be a link where you can get your barcode. You will use the same barcode every time you run and you MUST HAVE YOUR BARCODE with you at the parkrun in order to receive a result. If you don't have a barcode, they will not record your time and I may not be able to confirm your time. You should also have your barcode printed out as phones generally do not work with scanners. If you do not have access to a printer, you can send your barcode to me no later than Thursday, August 26 at 3:00pm and I will do my best to get it printed out for you.

Please make sure you save the confirmation email somewhere on your email server so that you can retrieve your barcode easily for future parkruns.

Additional Important Details

• • The distance for this course is 5 kilometers, or 3.10 miles. 

  • Parents: if you drop your son off and leave, please be sure to return by 10am to pick your son up. This will be a very short day for us and I'd like to keep it that way.

    • Parents/siblings are also welcome to register and run/walk the course themselves if they'd like!

• As of Friday, August 27, the forecast for August 28 is mostly cloudy with a high of 87 and a 44% chance of storms likely holding off until the afternoon, so it looks good for race day but keep an eye on the weather Friday night into Saturday morning.

If you have any questions, contact coach directly.