Nitro Trail Half Marathon, 10K & 5K

May 11, 2024
Pinole
Trail
Distances
Half-Marathon, 10k, 5k
Starting Time

8:00 AM

Fees

$95+

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Fast & Flat
Park Run
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/ Low: 55°

Several hundred runners turn out each year for all three races combined at the annual Nitro Trail Half Marathon, 10K & 5K, for a race that marks its 14th annual running this year and takes runners through Point Pinole Regional Shoreline Park, in San Francisco’s East Bay.

The race takes runners on the fire trails and biking & walking paths that wind through the park in the area known as the East Bay of San Francisco, whose plentiful eucalyptus tree groves, bluffs and sandy beaches point out into the San Pablo Bay, just a stone’s throw from the nearby Bay Area cities of San Pablo, Pinole and Richmond.

With the exception of a few brief stretches along the park’s paved walking paths, most of the race takes runners along the natural surface fire trails through the park, and the out-and-back course features ample views of the shoreline as well as the waters of San Pablo Bay, on which sailboats and ships of all varieties are a common sight.

Depending on the visibility, off in the distance runners may also be able to see the Marin Shoreline and Mount Tamalpais.
Many of the trails throughout the park’s 2,315 acres are shaded by groves of eucalyptus trees, planted decades ago as a buffer for the park’s original purpose, as a manufacturing site for gunpowder and dynamite.
Re-opened as a public park in 1973, Point Pinole is now part of the area’s East Bay Regional Park district, and also features marshlands, breezy wide-open meadows and a fresh water pond along the park’s miles of trails.

Overview
Several hundred runners turn out each year for all three races combined at the annual Nitro Trail Half Marathon, 10K & 5K, for a race that marks its 14th annual running this year and takes runners through Point Pinole Regional Shoreline Park, in San Francisco’s East Bay. The race takes runners on the fire trails and biking & walking paths that wind through the park in the area known as the East Bay of San Francisco, whose plentiful eucalyptus tree groves, bluffs and sandy beaches point out into the San Pablo Bay, just a stone’s throw from the nearby Bay Area cities of San Pablo, Pinole and Richmond. With the exception of a few brief stretches along the park’s paved walking paths, most of the race takes runners along the natural surface fire trails through the park, and the out-and-back course features ample views of the shoreline as well as the waters of San Pablo Bay, on which sailboats and ships of all varieties are a common sight.

Depending on the visibility, off in the distance runners may also be able to see the Marin Shoreline and Mount Tamalpais.
Many of the trails throughout the park’s 2,315 acres are shaded by groves of eucalyptus trees, planted decades ago as a buffer for the park’s original purpose, as a manufacturing site for gunpowder and dynamite.
Re-opened as a public park in 1973, Point Pinole is now part of the area’s East Bay Regional Park district, and also features marshlands, breezy wide-open meadows and a fresh water pond along the park’s miles of trails.

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Distances
Half Marathon, 10k, 5k
Starting Time

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Fees

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