Sporting and Outdoors

Trail Runner Magazine The Authority On Off Road Trail Running Trail running is a sport which consists of running and hiking over trails In the United Kingdom and Ireland it is also called mountain or fell running although the two types do differ. It was to have been my first marathon since I gave up running years ago, and my first high-profile race since writing my book Born to Run.'' I had trained to run it barefoot, and even announced my plans to the world in an article in The New York Times. One of the great things about being a regular at a race like this is the camaraderie between the participants - many of the the folks there were people that I run with regularly, some were folks that I know as local runners, and a few are folks I seem to only chat with once a year at this race. I was not worried about finding my way back should the trail start to get erased by the leaves, as the topography of the mountain is pretty simple, and running along the southwest ridge, there wer