Race the Reserve Whidbey Island

🏃‍♂️ Race Overview

• Location: Set in Coupeville, WA, on beautiful Whidbey Island, this race will offer you amazing views and a course like no other.
• Starting Point: Runners will begin their adventure on the south side of the seaport community of Coupeville.
• Unique Opportunity: You will traverse both Ebey's Prairie and Crockett Prairie within Ebey's Landing National Historic Preserve offering spectacular, panoramic ocean and prairie farmland views.
• Scenic Views: Runners will be met with sweeping vistas that include Mount Baker, the North Cascades, the Olympic Mountains and Peninsula, Mount Rainier and the San Juan Islands.

🌄 Course Highlights

• Pastoral Landscape: Across the pastoral landscape in the Reserve and vast waterways of Puget Sound, Admiralty Inlet and the Straits of Juan de Fuca.
• Ferry Views: If you are lucky, you will catch a glimpse of the ferries running between Coupeville and Port Townsend as you skirt the shores of Admiralty Inlet.
• Terrain Variety: A combination of dramatic seaside bluffs, dense forest, dirt and paved trails and fertile prairies.
• Historic Significance: Offers a unique location and opportunity for competitive running in the first (1978) of only three historical reserves in the country.

🎓 Event Purpose

• Supportive Initiative: This event supports graduation week activities and a safe and sober graduation night for the 2027 Seniors from Coupeville HS.
• Registration Deadline: Register by July 12th, 2026 to be guaranteed a t-shirt.
• Sanctioned Event: This event is USATF Sanctioned.
• More Information: For more details, visit the official race page.

📍 Race Details

• Date: 2026-08-08
• Packet Pickup: Race Day Packet Pickup at Coupeville Elementary School, Coupeville, WA.
• Race Start: Starting point will be at the same location.