Make Your Run Count!
October 24, 2009 (Saturday)
6:00 AM-10:00 AM

350 Trees Series

Race-for-Trees is an eco-tourism initiative for nature appreciation toward preservation – we intend to expose every person involve this event, the participants, the volunteers, officials and the community to the scenery of the countryside route to develop our sense of accountability to Mother Earth.

Every runner, walker or sponsor who will register in the series will fund one (1) native tree to be raised and will be counted to accomplish 350 trees to be planted this year. Individual Bib Race numbers will be printed from 001 to 350 representing the 350 trees – a doable effort to stabilize atmospheric CO2.

Let us plant a tree and make your run count, run the series!

Why 350 Trees?

The world atmospheric CO2 for August 2009 is 385.92 parts per million (ppm), as published at the CO2Now.org by the world’s most current data for atmospheric CO2 measurements at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii posted this September 10, 2009.

”350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Scientists measure carbon dioxide in “parts per million” (ppm), so 350 ppm is the number humanity needs to get below as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change. To get there, we need a different kind of PPM -a “people powered movement” that is made of people like you in every corner of the planet”-quoted from the 350.org website.

We join this 350.org an international grassroots campaign to rally support to the global climate movement united by a common call to action to ensure that the world creates bold and equitable solutions to the climate crisis.

The Race for Trees

There are four (4) categories benefactors can support the cause. Runners and walkers may register in the following distances:
1. 15 km distance loop course for Open Category ages 16 and above;
2. 10 km distance out-and-back course (turning point at kilometer 5) for ages 17-25, 26-35, 36-40, 41-50, 51 and above;
3. 5 km distance out-and-back course (turning points at kilometer 2.5) for ages 13-14, 15-16;
4. 3 km distance out-and-back course (turning point at kilometer 1.5) for ages 7-9 & 10-12.

The Route

The Race for Trees route will traverse the Dumaguete Adventure Marathon Route*. Start and Finish at Brgy. Calabnugan in Sibulan, and run through Barangays Balili (lower), Cambucad, Pulangbato and Palinpinon all from the Municipality of Valencia and Dumaguete City barangays Candau-ay and Camanjac. Participant runners as well as walkers can run and stroll from the start to the finish line – the slower the better.

During the course, 15 km runners will face up with the 4-km uphill challenge (2.5-km uphill & 2.5-km downhill for 5 km runners, 1.5-km uphill & 1.5-km downhill for 3-km runners) and descend 11-km to the finish line at the Calabnugan Bridge, Sibulan.

Participants will run a combination of trail, cross-country road, up hill-down hill into the green, rugged, country road with entirely different environment and breathtaking scenery as the participants traverses dirt track trails, gravel, and hard road under coconut canopies, through ravines, cross river spillways. All categories will Start and Finish at the Camanjac-Calabnugan Bridge over the Ocoy River.

How to get to the Starting Line?

The Start and Finish lines are located at the same point at the Camanjac-Calabnugan Bridge in Ocoy River. To get to the bridge before the Start Time at 6:00 AM for the check-in time at 5:30 AM, participants should assemble at the Quezon Park from 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM for the walk-in registrants. A bus will leave at exactly 5:00 AM to ferry participants to the starting line.

*Dumaguete Adventure Marathon – the 25 km adventure challenge on November 22, 2009 (Sunday). For more info please visit www.dumaguetemarathon.com/2009.

For more information please e-mail: ptyp2006@gmail.com or paul@dgterunners.com