Baz's famous Winter Trail Run Series starts each year off with four shorter trail runs in the
Cleveland National Forest, close to San Juan Capistrano, CA.   Great training for an ultra!

Course Maps  & 3D Views of the WTRS Events Double click on the Flyby Tour links and wait for Google Earth to zoom in from orbit to the view that shows the red outline of the entire course.  Once it stabilizes, click on PLAY TOUR button or select PLAY TOUR from the drop down VIEW menu.   That starts the animated flyover of the entire course.  Awesome!  Click HERE for more hints on setting up your Google Earth options for best viewing of Flyby Tours
Jan 12  12K	Aerial View of the 12K Course	Google Earth 3D view of the 12K terrain 12K Race Google Earth Flyby Tour	GPS record of the elevation changes.  The Garmin sums all those ups and downs.  the 12K climbs a TOTAL of 1/2 mile (2,604 feet)!  The Garmin measured a distance of 8.15 miles, whereas 12K = 7.456 miles (we run an extra 9% = 0.7 mile).
Jan 24  15K	Aerial View of the 15K Course	Google Earth 3D view of the 15K terrain 15K Race Google Earth Flyby Tour	The 15K climbs a TOTAL of 2/3rds of a mile (3,502 feet)!  The Garmin measured a distance of 9.39 miles, whereas 15 kilometers = 9.32 miles.  Baz did good!
Feb 7 18K	Aerial View of the 18K Course	Google Earth 3D view of the 18K terrain 18K Race Google Earth Flyby Tour	the 18K climbs a TOTAL of 3/4ths of a mile (4,020 feet)!  The Garmin measured a distance of 10.65 miles, whereas 18 kilometers = 11.18 miles mathematically.
Feb 21 21K	Aerial View of the 21K Course	Google Earth 3D view of the 21K terrain 21K Race Google Earth Flyby Tour	the 21K climbs a TOTAL of over 1/2 of a mile (3,470 feet)!  The Garmin measured a distance of 12.68 miles, whereas 21 kilometers = 13.05 miles mathematically.  Almost exactly a half marathon distance.

If you haven't done a trail race before and or don't know exactly how to get to the
Blue Jay site for the starts of the races click Beginner's Page.

Click HERE to read David Whiting's January 10th, 2008 OC Register

OUTDOORS article on Baz's MAGIC winter trail runs

(includes links to David's KOCE TV News piece on Baz's WTRS).
OC OUTDOORS columnist, David Whiting is building an outdoors community in Orange County
to promote safety and connect people.  OC OUTDOORS will soon be adding: discussion boards; the
ability to share your stories online; and links to OC running, cycling, hiking, sailing and climbing info.
 

Scenes from the 2008 WTRS Events
12K	Sign in table activity	OK Matey's gather around - the time has come to give out the awards!	Big Baz & Michelle Barton
15K	Pay attention to the arrows	Kyle and dad Eric Kosters finished in 1:53:28	No, I absolutely will not take bribes or hugs for the best raffle prizes!
18K	Pam Everett on the trail.	Ryan from Rhode Island had fun at the WTRS!	Doug Malewicki's graphical comment on his recent 15K trail crash & burn!
21K	Last minute pre-race  instructions	The biggest "obstacle" of the day appears in the last half mile along Falcon Trail	YES - I love this job!!

To contact Big Baz Hawley:  email bazhawley@sti.net