DIRTYKILN RUNNERS GUIDE April8,2023CANOECREEKSTATEPARK HOLLIDAYSBURG,PA 09:00-13MILESTART 09:15-10KSTART
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The Dirty Kiln Trail Races
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About Canoe Creek..................................................
Course maps.............................................................
Race rules..................................................................
Race timetable...........................................................
A MESSAGE FROM THE ATR OFFICE
Thank you for being a participant in the 11th running of the Dirty Kiln Trail Race at Canoe Creek State Park. We hope you will have as much fun running the race as we had bringing it all together. We created this race with two goals in mind. First, we wanted to expand on our success we had over the past eleven years in creating great races. Second, we wanted to get back to our roots. After lots of hard work and planning from everybody involved, we are to announce that we have achieved both of these goals! We are reversing the course every odd year and keeping things fresh and new. By nature, trail racing is a low frills endeavor. We wanted the course to be incentive enough to entice new trail runners to keep up with the sport and recruit more runners to participate in the sport. All this paired with the comradery of trail events, we hope that you will find and make new friends here. To all the participants, happy trails!
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One of the Twenty Must-See Pennsylvania State Parks
The area in and surrounding Canoe Creek State Park is rich in limestone. The limestone was quarried and used for many purposes like providing needed raw materials for the iron and steel industries of Pennsylvania. There are several abandoned quarries on the park lands. Two limekilns also operated within the boundaries of the park during the 1900s. The remnants of a kiln once owned by the Blair Limestone Company stand today as a reminder of the industrial past.
This limestone was extracted and used for many purposes, including supplying a raw material for the once thriving iron and steel industry of Pennsylvania. Once mined, the limestone was taken to a kiln and heated. Two calcining plants (limekilns) operated in the park during the early 1900s.
The Petersburg spur of the Pennsylvania Railroad traveled through what is now Canoe Creek State Park to connect the lime kilns with the mainline railroad
The Blair Limestone Company Kiln remnants are the focus of historical and interpretive programs and displays. This company was a subsidiary of Jones and Laughlin Steel Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. The Frank Felbaum Bat Sanctuary is the home of the largest nursery colony of little brown bats in Pennsylvania. This one-time church, now known as the Canoe Creek Bat Refuge, attracts visitors interested in observing the bats as they emerge each night for feeding. The park is also the site of a hibernaculum for more than 30,000 bats of six species, including the endangered Indiana bat.
Canoe Lake is stocked with game fish by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Fisherman can catch bass, trout, walleye, muskellunge, pickerel and catfish during the summer and winter months at Canoe Lake. The sand beach at Canoe Lake is open starting Memorial Day weekend and ending Labor Day weekend. The only motorized boats permitted on Canoe Lake are electrically powered.
Eight modern cabins are available to rent year-round. Each cabin sleeps six people and has electric heat, two bedrooms, living room, dining room, bathroom, and kitchen.
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Red Arrows = First 10K
Blue Arrows = Second Half of the Course
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SHORT COURSE ELEVATION CHART
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“BACK-HALF” ELEVATION CHART (6 to 13 miles)
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ALLEGHENY TRAILRUNNERS RACE RULES
As it is in many trail races, the Dirty Kiln Trail Race has its own rules and practices. Please read carefully the race rules and warnings before the competition.
• No unofficial runners – No bandits (or pacers) allowed.
• No course cutting – Follow the marked course at all times – it will be clearly marked with flagging, directional arrows and markers. If you depart the marked course, you must return to the point of departure on foot before continuing. Cutting the switchbacks is cheating, and leaving the beaten path to avoid mud or water is just bad trail karma – please don’t.
• Mandatory gear – There is no mandatory gear needed for this race but we suggest a good pair of trail shoes, hydration and maybe some bug spray. If you are allergic to bees or other insects, please carry the appropriate medication (antihistamine, EpiPen, etc.)
• Optional race aids – Hiking poles, GPS devices, heart rate monitors, and similar devices are allowed – but ONLY IF you use them safely and responsibly (so you are aware of what’s around you and not a danger to yourself or others).
• Music on the trail – Our insurance is provided through an agency that requests that you do not listen to music via headphones since it impedes the ability to hear others around you. Besides, it is a trail race, why not enjoy the nature that surrounds you. If you do listen to music, either use one earbud or headphone or play at a volume that you can hear others. If a race official on the course says something to you and you do not hear his/ her instructions, you risk disqualification. Under no circumstances are participants permitted to play music through a speaker or any device that is audible to others.
• No crew support or aid drops; spectators only permitted at aid stations – No one is allowed to give aid to runners at aid stations, drop or store supplies or equipment along the race route, and runners are not allowed any kind of aid between checkpoints unless it is an emergency. Spectators are allowed only at aid stations and can interact with runners as long as they do not give aid, supplies or equipment unless it is an emergency or other special situation as permitted by the aid station captain.
• Pets – We love dogs, but not during a race. Please no pets on the course. (Pets are welcome at the start/finish area, but they must be under control and they must be on a leash. Pet clean up after your pet.)
• Do not litter – You can either carry your trash or dispose of it at the aid stations. We are operating under permits from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and other parties. Litter could threaten future permits. Anyone caught intentionally littering along the trail will be disqualified. Leave no trace!
• Passing other trail users – The course uses many popular hiking trails, so please be respectful of all trail users and yield as needed. Be careful, courteous, patient, and safe while passing competitors or other trail users. Communicate your intentions clearly (“Passing on your left”), and remember that it’s much more fun when everyone uses their manners.
• When nature calls – Some aid stations will have bathroom facilities, either a permanent structure or a port-a-john, but most do not. If you have to pee, find a tree.
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RACE DAY TIMELINE
7:45am - Coffee from Standing Stone Coffee Company is served. Free for participants.
8am - Check-in/bib pickup begins at Pavilion 2 for both distances.
9am - Half-marathon race begins
9:15am - 10K race begins
About 10am - The First 10K runners finish. Food is served inside Pavilion 2. Beer begins to flow at the beer tent/beer garden behind Pavilion 2.
Dirty Kiln Cut-off Times:
— Half-marathoner cut-off times are based on a 4 hour, 30 minute finish at an 19m:25s pace.
— Half-marathoner need to cross the 10K mark and start the second loop around the lake no later than 11am. (2h 00m)
— Half-marathoners need to make it the aid station at the base of Moore’s Hill no later than 11:45pm (2h 45m).
— No cut-off time for the 10K. About 1:30pm - Final participants arrive at the finish. Beer and food available for the final finishers.
2:30pm - Dirty Kiln 2023 concludes. See you next year!
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ALLEGHENY TRAILRUNNERS RACE RULES (Con’t)
• Accountability – We’ll be tracking your progress around the course – it’s your responsibility to make sure your race bib is visible, and to check yourself IN and OUT of each of the aid stations (even if you are just passing through without stopping). A volunteer at the aid stations will record your arrival and departure, and relay your progress to race HQ.
• Cut-off times – Aid station captains will strictly enforce the cut-off times that are posted for designated aid stations. Aid station captains also have the authority to pull you from the course if it is clear that you are physically unable to continue in a safe manner. Their decisions are final, and if you refuse to vacate the course when directed, you’ll be disqualified.
• Dropping out of the race – If you can’t complete the race, you must notify the aid station captain and surrender your race bib, which will officially withdraw you from the race. If you leave the race and don’t show up at the next aid station within a reasonable time, we’ll assume you’re lost, contact your emergency contact, notify authorities and begin our search. This could threaten the race’s future permits. Leaving a race without informing an aid station captain means automatic disqualification and restriction from entry in future races.
• Injured on the course – If you are injured on the course: if you can still walk under your own power or with assistance from others, please go in the direction toward the next aid station. Don’t try to bushwack, use “Zen” or internal compass to the nearest road or landmark. All aid stations will have basic medical supplies, some will have medical staff and/or have a radio operator that can summon emergency personnel. If you can not move forward, a course sweeper will be behind the last runner and will also have a radio to summon emergency personnel.
ADDITIONAL DIRTY KILN RACE RULES
• Do your homework – Go online, read and understand all the available information concerning the 3 W’s of the race; the what, the where, and the when. The time put into developing a race website, writing pre-race emails and social media posts are for your benefit, and you alone are responsible for knowing this information about the race before race day. If you have a question, please email us or post on our group or race page, no matter how silly you think it is.
• You are paying to race – When you sign up for a race, you are signing up to run/race at the event. When you show up at the event, we guarantee to provide a race bib, event timing, start line, a marked course with aid along the way, finish line food and beverages and results posted online through our timing company. Anything not listed above is a bonus provided by us and is not included in your registration fee. We have an obligation to our participants who actually show up to the race. If you do not show up, we owe you nothing – meaning if you don’t show up, we will not mail your stuff.
Beer is back this year but there are some rules to follow:
• Beer/alcoholic beverages will be available behind the pavilion. There will be a tent and a roped off beer garden.
• Beer/alcoholic beverage is only permitted within the beer garden. Don’t venture outside this area with a beverage.
• RAMP-certified servers will check IDs if needed. They will also have a roster of participants with your age on the day of the event.
• Participants need to have their race bibs when being served. Volunteers and spectators with a participant will be given wristbands. Anyone not associated with the race will not be served.
• Two beverage limit.
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