Trail Run Fest returns: entries open

Following a highly successful inaugural event earlier this year, the acclaimed Brooks Trail Run Festival will return to the flanks of Mount Baw Baw on the 8-10 March long weekend in 2014, with entries to the three day celebration of off-road running now open. A unique three day outing on the trail running event calendar, the Brooks Trail Run Festival is the only trail event that combines a fantastic line-up of competitive runs with plenty of off-trail activities in the…

Vertical K trail series launched

NEWS RELEASE: La Sportiva and Running Wild Victoria have announced Australia’s first Vertical K Mountain Running Series. The Running Wild – La Sportiva Vertical K Mountain Running Series incorporates three gruelling events designed to test  uphill running skills, strength and stamina to the extreme. Based on the European Vertical Kilometre events run by the ISF, these races are aimed to complete a vertical kilometre of climbing over a short distance. Set in the spectacular Alpine National Park of north eastern…

Sting returns to spring with multisport

Multisport athletes (with a penchant for running sweet singletrail) will celebrate the end of spring with a little extra sting come 30 November when they race the unique Montane Seasons of Pain multisport event held on the flanks of Victorian alpine resort, Mount Baw Baw, located 2.5 hours east of Melbourne. The series will be in its fourth outing for the year, the previous Winter edition testing a format that included a cross country ski and snow run. This final…

Latest Trail Run Mag blazes new trail

You know that feeling when you run a trail for the first time? It’s all new, fresh dirt, exploding the senses – makes you wanna steam through the jungle… Well, get ready to feel the same bolt of change when you open up the pages of the latest Trail Run Mag, Edition 10, hitting the e-shelves right now, because you’re in for a surprise. Last edition we checked in with new editors (welcome Rachel Jaqueline as our Asia Bureau Chief…

Ancient Khmer Path lures trail runners

ADVERTORIAL You could hardly say that running – let alone trail running – is exploding in impoverished Cambodia. It’s not exactly a national past time. Talk to the locals and the only tales of running that come to pass are those involving the word ‘away’: running away from the marauding enemy and into the jungle in most cases. There was running through wilderness, of course, but it was very much of the life saving survival kind, not life affirming recreational…