THIS IS A RELEASE – IT CONTAINS LIMITATIONS AND LIABILITY. You are responsible for your own condition and safety on these runs. As a participant in the UltraLadies training runs, you are aware of the rigors and dangers of trail running. You understand that trail running involves being in remote areas for extended periods of time, far from services, that these areas may have many natural and man-made hazards which can not be anticipated, identified, modified or eliminated and injury can happen to you or anyone, at any time. By participating in the UltraLadies training runs, you agree to take full responsibility for yourself. You, intending to be legally bound hereby, for yourself, your heirs, executors and administrators, waive and release any and all rights and claims for damages you may have against Nancy Shura-Dervin, Larry Dervin, TrailRunEvents, the UltraLadies/New Basin Blues running clubs, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, the City of Los Angeles, CA State Parks, National Park Service, and their representatives, successors, and assigns for any and all injuries suffered by you in said events. You further assume any and all financial responsibility that may be incurred in the event you require emergency evacuation from the running course, including but not limited to air evacuation. You attest and verify that you are physically fit and have sufficiently trained for the completion of these runs, and your physical condition has been verified by a licensed medical doctor. You understand and agree to the use your name, pictures and interviews in association with the UltraLadies for use in broadcast, telecast, advertisements, books, films, videotape or any other reproduction thereof, with no monetary or other compensation to you.
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- Use the sign-in sheet at the beginning and end of each run. The sign-in sheet will be located on the windshield of the group leader's car. Always write down your vehicle license plate number so we have a way to check on who may still be out on the trail.
- These are strenuous, hilly training runs, on fire roads and narrow, rocky trails. Trail running shoes and trail gators are recommended.
- Go for time on your feet rather than mileage. These are training runs; not races!
- Trails will be marked with flour arrows but there is no guarantee that you won't get lost. Hikers may tamper with the arrows. Other running clubs often mark their own arrows that may be mistaken for ours. Fatigue may cause you to miss an arrow.
- Find a "buddy" to run with. If you turn back early, tell another runner so someone knows where you are. Remember to use the sign-in sheet when you return to your car.
- Check out your surroundings, don’t just follow arrows. Search for landmarks to help you identify directions coming AND going.
- If you are lost, backtrack to the last arrow and resume from there.
- Carry water! There may be water stops but not always. Two 20-oz bottles are not enough for a twenty mile run in the mountains in July. Please don’t skimp on water...others can't carry enough to share with you. In hot weather, it’s a good idea to freeze one bottle of water the night before...it'll melt as you run and stay cool! Please do not show up with those little tiny water bottles!!!
- Drink 20-oz of fluid per hour including electrolyte replacement.
- Carry supplies: Gels; salt or sodium replacement; snack food; PB&J sandwiches; trail mix; dried fruit; blister tape; band-aids; tissue; baggie; ginger; Advil; Tylenol; Tums; candy; trash baggie.
- You will be running in wilderness. Be prepared to encounter heat, altitude, streams, rocks, rattlesnakes, poison oak, and possibly mountain lions. Falls are a distinct probability. Many reasons to not be alone on the trail.
- Wear hats, visors, bandanas, sleeves, and sun block.
- Do not wear headphones. You will not hear rattlesnake warnings, approaching mountain bikes, or lost runners calling in distress.
- There are no toilets on the trails. To poop, go off-trail, dig a small hole with the heel of your shoe, and then bury the remains. Do not bury soiled tissue. Pack it out in a baggie. It is acceptable to pee by the side of the trail!
- If you leave the trail to go in the bushes, always leave your water pack on the trail as a marker of where you left trail; this will help S&R when they come to look for you!
- Take salt: On long runs (more than 3 hrs.) take 1 tsp. salt every 1-2 hours.
- You might be a fast runner or you might be a slow runner! You might be a fast runner on the way out and a slow runner on the way back ;-). Please go your own pace, following the arrows. You are not expected to "keep up". As most of our runs will be "out-and-back", you are encouraged to go as slow as you need to go on the way out; that will help insure that you can come back a little faster.
- At stream crossings avoid grabbing tree branches. Poison oak usually grows near water. Upon exposure, immediately rinse your skin with plain water. Rinse, don’t rub. At home, rinse off under the garden hose (while fully dressed/shoes on) then launder.
- Trail right of way:
- Horses have the right-of-way
- Foot traffic yields to horses
- Mountain bikes yield to foot traffic and horses
- Test Question: A horse will yield the right-of-way before a mountain biker will...so which one has the bigger brain?
