Celebrate the start of the spring/summer running season with DC Road Runners' Women's Distance Festival (WDF) 5K and Run-After-the-Women (RATW) 5K.  Our WDF race is part of the Maryland Road Runners Clubs of America WDF Grand Prix Series. (Note: to earn Bunion Derby points, women must run in the WDF 5K and men must run in the RATW 5K.).

Please consider running the other races in the series. Women who participate in at least four of the eight races receive a WDF Participation Award! See the schedule below.

Race Director: Paul Ryan 

Distance and course: 5K, certified course, out-and-back, gentle rolling hills.  

Registration:

Online advance registration through 8 PM the evening before the race:

             $0 for club members

$10 for non-members.

Online late registration from 8 PM the evening before the race until the race director says "Go!" Register using your phone (or a friend's), even at the race site. We'll not accept any other form of registration/payment at the race site.

$  5 for club members

$15 for non-members

Who is registered?  check this list.  You should receive a confirmation email but sometimes they end up in a spam folder.  This list will serve as the alternative confirmation of your registration.

If you signed up for the race and can no longer run please email races@dcroadrunners.org to inform us of your cancelation.  There will be no refund for canceling but you will open up a spot for a fellow runner.

If you would like information about our club membership and the many benefits go to our membership page.

Refund Policy:  We have a strict no refund, no transfer and no deferral policy on all of our low key races.  However, in the event we are forced to cancel this race due to weather or other unforeseen events we will make every attempt to reschedule this race on another date.  In this event, your registration would automatically carry over to the new date.  If you are unable to run this new date or we are unable to find a new date for the race we will grant you free entry into another of our low key races in which room is available.

Volunteers: We have enough volunteers. Thanks for all those who signed-up.

Race-day Information: The Women's Distance Festival will start at 8:00 am; the Run After the Women will start at 8:15 am.  The start/finish line is at Bon Air Park in Arlington.  

Timing:  This race is timed using the Chronotrack timing system.

Post Race Celebration:  After the race stick around and celebrate a great run with your fellow runners, watch the awards announcements and partake in refreshments.  Along the same vein as awards we do not guarantee food.  But again we love to provide it after our races.  Our races will generally have food and drinks at the post race celebration.  We will have Gatorade and/or water at all functions and occasionally coffee or hot chocolate as well.  Food can include bagels, cookies, fruit and even sometimes cake.  So stick around and enjoy the celebration.

Stroller and Dog Policy:  This race is held on a fairly narrow public trail.  In addition to the many race participants this trail also remains open to the public for use by walkers, runners and bicyclers.  As such, dogs and strollers are prohibited on this particular course.

Headphone Policy:  The use of headphones is strongly discouraged at all DCRR Club races.

Here are the other Women's Distance Festival races:

June 9, 2024 (same day as the DCRRC race). Howard Country Striders, Columbia, MD

     http://www.striders.net/wdf

June 22, 2024. Montgomery Country Road Runners, Wheaton, MD

      https://mcrrcrunforroses.org/

July 6, 2024: Annapolis Striders (5K for men follows women’s race). Annapolis, MD

      https://www.annapolisstriders.org

July 14, 2024. Westminster Road Runners Club, Union Mills, MD

      https://www.wrrclub.com/wdf

July 21, 2024. Baltimore Road Runners Club, Lutherville, MD

      https://brrc.com/

August 3, 2024. Frederick Steeplechasers Running Club, Frederick, MD

      https://www.frederickwdf.com/

August 11, 2024 (5K for men follows women’s race). Prince George’s Running Club, College Park, MD

      https://pgrc.org/races/womens-distance-festival-5k/

For information on the participation award, go to:

      https://maryland-rrca.org/wdf-series/