For about as long as I can remember it has been the quiet and solitude of the trails that attracted me to the mountains. Even when I am out on the trails with others, I often let the others in the...

I have had my fair share of injuries over the years. My injuries have ranged from tendon pulls to shin splints on the one end to tripping over a rock, falling on my face, and getting a fractured rib...

I was lucky enough to be exposed to trail running as a young teenager. However, back in those days, we called it cross-country running because the era of purpose-built cross-country circuits hadn’t...

I find that heading out into nature for a trail run has a calming effect on me within the first couple of miles. If I can be somewhere where I’m away from any city or traffic noise it is even...

When I first got into mountain sports I had a mentor that repeatedly told us that when we went into the mountains we were to take only photographs and leave only footprints. It is a motto that I have...

There is no doubt in my mind that trail running boosts my mental health – at the very least it has made a massive difference to the state of my mental health. The combination of trail running and...