On September 18th 2021, runners from all over the world are going to be a part of a global celebration of trail running and we want you to get involved.
18 September 2021
One thing that people all over the world have learned in 2020 is that physical activity and being outdoors both matter to us more than we ever realised. This is why the time is now for us all to celebrate how important trail running is as an activity and why it is one of the very best forms of exercise. For the uninitiated, trail running is a mode of exercise like jogging, but instead of the grey pavements of the city or the bump and whizz of the treadmill, it uses the trails found in and around green spaces. Everything from seaside tracks, to pathways through the woods, to hills, valleys and mountains - all are the proscenium to the trail adventures awaiting you.
While almost all exercise will succeed at the very basics of making you fitter or stronger, there is no other single activity that will reward you with as many benefits for brain and body as trail running. While lots of forms of exercise contribute to our health and well-being, none do so as potently, or completely, as trail running does.
To make Global Trail Running Day as inclusive as possible, it is completely FREE to take part and you can run any distance you like, from 1km to 999km! To inspire your trail running journey the following e-book can be downloaded for FREE
CEO of Midnight Runners
This year will see Jody return for his fourth talk at Love Trails Festival. After 8 years in the Army, running in some of the world's most extreme and dangerous yet iconic and interesting locations, he joins us this year as the CEO of Midnight Runners which under his leadership has grown from one city to eleven on four continents and has become one of the world's largest running communities. However Jody is far from just another urban runner. As an ultra long distance runner he has just returned from running across the central Asian country of Tajikistan. In this talk he will reflect on his own journey in the sport he loves and the people he has met on along the way. From Palestinians using running as a way of telling the story of their lives under occupation in the West Bank, to founding the Mogadishu Marathon in the Somali Capital in the middle of a 26 year old civil war, to what it's actually like to run in Afghanistan; this talk will tell the story of modern running, through the eyes of somebody who has had the unique opportunity to connect with people whose running narrative is rarely told - but whose stories are breathtaking - and that most of all how running, in whatever shape or form - can truly change the world.
@adventureswithjb
Founder of Impact Marathon
@njkershaw
Ultra-trail runner & Founder of the Mira Rai Initiative
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Find out more about Global Trail Running Day :)