The Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition and Fleet Feet Bonney Lake are pleased to sponsor Pierce County's most scenic ultra and relay.

On National Trails Day, Saturday June 4, 2011, runners, walkers, and ultras will take on the ninth annual Rainier to Ruston Rail-Trail Relay and Ultra.

   
   
 

Thanks to everyone for another great race in 2010!

2010 was a breakthrough year for the Rainier to Ruston Rail-Trail Relay and Ultra when the race truly came of age. National Trails Day was celebrated by 120 volunteers and 507 participants, besting the previous record by about 200 runners and walkers.

The course was attacked by 8 solo walkers and 6 teams walking 28 miles in six legs to Orting, 21 ultras running 50 K from So. Prairie to Ruston Way, and 40 ultras and 78 teams of runners going the whole 51 miles from the Tacoma Mountaineers' parking lot about 1/2 mile from the Carbon River entrance at Mt. Rainier National Park to Marine Park in Tacoma.

Check out the race results and the four new course records set and eight old records broken. Then get ready to celebrate National Trails Day, 2011 with another R2R, "an adventure in your own backyard!"

2010 Race Results 

Several Course Records were broken as well this year.  View them here

Pictures
The Rainier to Ruston is very fortunate to have Byron Vasecka travel from Spokane to photograph this great event. He has captured the spirit and enthusiasm of the race in a vivid and spectacular fashion. I hope you enjoy and purchase some of the photos in the gallery. 50 percent of the proceeds will go back to the Foothills Trail Coalition to help support the goal of completing a contiguous, non-motorized, public trail from Mt. Rainier to Tacoma.

The pictures are available here.

See Photos on our Facebook page and Jason Grose has also shared his pictures with us, available here.

Video
We also have a DVD produced by Johnson Video Promotions.  This is a high-quality HD Video, 5.8Gb in size.  The order form for the DVD is available here.

 

Click the play button on the video above to watch a 4 minute sample of video that has been produced.

See you next year on National Trails Day for R2R 2011!!
- June 4, 2011

 RACE DIRECTORS

Rob Hester, Race Director
(253) 226-5495
 Rob's Facebook page
Email Rob


 Eric Barnes, Assistant Race Director
(206) 406-3307
 Eric's Facebook page
 Email Eric


John Selby, Race Founder
 Email John

SPONSORS WANTED

We're actively recruiting sponsors for the 2011 Rainier-to-Ruston Relay. Want to know more?

Contact Rob Hester at rcwhester@yahoo.com.








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