Race the Reserve Whidbey Island
About this race
Set in Coupeville, WA, on beautiful Whidbey Island, this race will offer you amazing views and course like no other. Runners will begin their adventure on the south side of the seaport community of Coupeville. You will have the unique opportunity to traverse both Ebey's Prairie and Crockett Prairie within Ebey's Landing National Historic Preserve offering spectacular, panoramic ocean and prairie farmland views. Across the pastoral landscape in the Reserve and vast waterways of Puget Sound, Admiralty Inlet and the Straits of Juan de Fuca, runners will be met with sweeping vistas that include Mount Baker, the North Cascades, the Olympic Mountains and Peninsula, Mount Rainier and the San Juan Islands. If you are lucky, you will catch a glimpse of the ferries running between Coupeville and Port Townsend as you skirt the shores of Admiralty Inlet. A combination of dramatic seaside bluffs, dense forest, dirt and paved trails and fertile prairies offers a unique location and opportunity for competitive running in the first (1978) of only three historical reserves in the country.
This event supports graduation week activities and a safe and sober graduation night for the 2027 Seniors from Coupeville HS.
Register by July 1st, 2026 to be guaranteed a t-shirt.
**This event is USATF Sanctioned
Pick your distance
Running
Race the Reserve 5k
Packet pickup at Coupeville Elementary School gymnasium August 7, 4-6 pm, or race day beginning at 6:30am.
Race the Reserve 10k
Packet pickup at Coupeville Elementary School gymnasium August 7, 4-6 pm, or race day beginning at 6:30am.
Race the Reserve Half Marathon
Packet pickup at Coupeville Elementary School gymnasium August 7, 4-6 pm, or race day beginning at 6:30am.
Typical race-day weather
Based on 9 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Coupeville, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 5:56 AM and sets at 8:36 PM local time (PDT) in Coupeville on August 8, 2026 — 14h 40m of daylight.
Course
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2026 results — Race the Reserve Whidbey Island
350 finishers across 3 distances · leading places in the Race the Reserve 5k
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trenton Mueller | 19:39 | 6:20 /mi |
| 2 | Henry Purdue | 20:03 | 6:27 /mi |
| 3 | Archer Schwarz | 20:39 | 6:39 /mi |
| 4 | Colton Ashby | 20:39 | 6:39 /mi |
| 5 | Travis Dotson | 21:13 | 6:50 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
All results by year
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🏃 Plan Your Next Race in Coupeville
Find upcoming events by distance:
- Coupeville 5K Races 2 races
- 10K Run Events in Coupeville 2 races
- Coupeville Half Marathons 2 races
- Coupeville Running Calendar 2026 3 races
Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 3 Coupeville events
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