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About Trail Running Canada

Trail Running Canada is dedicated to promoting Canadian trail running. Trail Running Canada and www.trailrunner.ca is produced by a collaboration of trail runners and event organizers from across Canada. It was started in 2008 and has seen growing popularity in the years and months since. With over 5,000 visitors per month trailrunner.ca is becoming the prominent web source for Canadian trail running news, stories, maps and events. Contributors to trailrunner.ca are from across the country and cover all running abilities. A special focus of trailrunner.ca is telling the amazing stories of Canada’s trail runners. If you have a story to tell send us an email to run@trailrunner.ca, we would love to hear from you.

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What is trail running?

Trail running is many things to many people. To some people it stands for ultra-running, which in my books is anything longer than a marathon (~26 miles), but usually much longer, for example, 100 mile races. To others, trail running is shorter runs done on trails, around 10-25 km. To me trail running simply means getting off the road and exploring unpaved terrain while running. So get outside, run and leave the road!

Chief Administrator: Jonathan Schmidt

Trail Running Canada was started by Jonathan R. Schmidt in 2008. After surviving the 2007 TransRockies Run, Jonathan decided that there needed to be more resources for trail running and specifically Canadian trail running. After all, Canada has some of the best places in the world to go trail running. You can contact Jonathan at jon@trailrunner.ca.