Please print out the course description and put them into a zip-lock baggie for the event (scroll down for a printer friendly version).
10km Course Description
- start at New Brighton Park near the playgrounds
- YOU WILL HEAD EAST ON OR PARALLEL TO THE TRANS-CANADA TRAIL UNTIL YOU REACH NEW BRIGHTON PARK. AT NO POINT SHOULD YOU BE HEADING BACK WESTWARD UNTIL THE TURNAROUND IN CONFEDERATION PARK.
- follow the path towards the beach, then to the right towards the pool and through the tunnel, then to the left and towards a gravel parking lot on the other side
- from here follow the Trans-Canada trail signs under the Ironworkers Memorial bridge
- RIGHT ONTO SMALLER TRAIL shortly after the trail turns from asphalt to gravel
- LEFT ONTO WIDE GRAVEL TRAIL at the top, follow back down to TC trail
- RIGHT ONTO TRANS-CANADA TRAIL follow the trail markings (watch out for the striped usually green and red posts at road crossings and trail logos on lamp posts and street signs)
- CONTINUE ACROSS WILLINGDON AVE ONTO SMALLER TRAIL 10 METRES TO THE RIGHT OF LARGE BLUE CHEVRON SIGN where the main Trans-Canada trail curves to the right in a grassy park towards a community centre a few blocks ahead across the street. Follow this trail alongside a green chainlink fence, ignoring any smaller off shoot trails.
- LEFT ONTO WIDER TRAIL 'CONFEDERATION PARK LOOP'
- LEFT AT 4-WAY TRAIL INTERSECTION ONTO SMALLER TRAIL follow this trail with lots of wooden planks to the right and away from a fenced in area, then to the left past a larger trail that curves to the right and uphill. When you reach the railroad tracks go a few metres to your right without crossing
- RIGHT ONTO SMALLER TRAIL up the hill, with a yellow rope hanging on the steepest part
- LEFT AT 3-WAY TRAIL INTERSECTION
- LEFT AT SECOND 3-WAY INTERSECTION ONTO CONFEDERATION PARK LOOP follow this around until it comes back out to Penzance Drive
- ***THIS IS WHERE THE 10K COURSE SPLITS FROM THE 25K AND 50K COURSES***
- RIGHT ONTO TRANS-CANADA TRAIL alongside Penzance Drive.
- RIGHT AND ONTO THE CONFEDERATION PARK LOOP TRAIL at the far side of the most western parking lot entrance for Confederation Park near a large park sign
- LEFT BACK ONTO THE SMALLER TRAIL YOU ENTERED THE PARK THROUGH (NEAR THE BLUE CHEVRON SIGN), you will see the entrance just before a green 'off-leash dog park' sign
- REJOIN THE TRANS-CANADA TRAIL throught the park across the street where the trail brings you back out to Kensington Avenue
- LEFT AT TRAIL INTERSECTION 'TO BOUNDARY ROAD'
- RIGHT ONTO SMALLER TRAIL AT TOP OF HILL that you took up from the TC trail
- LEFT ONTO TRAN-CANADA TRAIL and retrace your steps through New Brighton park past the beach to the finish by the playground
- Meet at JJ Bean at Powell Street and Victoria Drive after
- you can find a map of the course here.
