After a 4 year hiatus (it went off to college), the Copper Basin 50K returns to Prescott, AZ on April 11, 2015. Keeping in tune with the past two editions in 2009 & 2010, Aravaipa Running will be hosting this as an unsanctioned “fun run” on a new section of the Prescott Circle Trail that we’ve yet to incorporate into the previous two editions.
We created the Copper Basin 50K to introduce trail runners to the Prescott Circle Trail and to escape to the pines as the valley begins to heat up into mid-April. Now that the run has “grown up”, we’ll be starting and finishing downtown on Whiskey Row. A short mile or so through town and you’ll be on trails heading towards the South Eastern portion of the Prescott Circle Trail. The 50K will be an out and back course with some limited aid along the way.
If you don’t want to run the whole 50K, we won’t stop you. Well, we mean we won’t make you continue all the way to 50K. It is a fun run so we really don’t care what you do. Well, except have fun and run. The finish will hopefully be at a bar on Whiskey Row that has an outside patio where you can go immediately from a tasty finish to a tasty beer.
Write down your time when you are done and how far you ran. Simple.
Here are the basics:
- This is an unsanctioned “fun run”, essentially a gathering of friends running from downtown Prescott out to the Prescott Circle Trail and back.
- There will be no course markings.
- We will not be charging an entry fee or accepting money of any sort.
- This run will be limited to the first 70 people that sign up through Ultrasignup.com (no cost).
- We will maintain a waiting list when we hit the 7o person limit (which we will).
In addition to this “fun run” there will likely be a happy hour gathering Friday night at a bar in town as well as bar hopping after the finish on Saturday night. We will be on Whiskey Row after all.
There are plenty of camping options both free and for a fee around Prescott and lodging options in town. Please consider joining this gathering of friends to run in Prescott and do a shot with us!
Visit our Copper Basin webpage for more details. Or if this sounds to great to pass up and you’re ready to register you can do so here!
