Our mission..
The mission of Trail Running Albania is to promote and develop an active and healthy outdoor life, especially trail running, mountain adventure, and other sports and activities. It includes promoting Albania as a great destination for active tourism.
Who we are..
Trail Running Albania is a non profit organization aiming to promote trail running, ultra-trail and sports outdoor activities in Albania.
It includes group of enthusiastic and passionate people for outdoor activities such as trail running, marathons, ultra-trail obstacle running etc.
TRAIL Running Albania is also a community of great people, not only runners, but also volunteers and all those, who help us along our trail and without whom none of our work would make sense
Trail Running Albania…
Trail Running Albania brings you that awesome experience, choose from 5km, 10 kilometer or half marathon. All the events are organized to offer a diverse range of nature and terrain, giving runners a wide variety of spectacular trails and running experiences.
Besides having running adventures in an amazing, new place, you can have the chance to explore more of the cultures and unique nature after you challenge your-self.
With those activities our organizations amid all, aim to promote at the most beautiful Albanian places, people and tradition.
It is the first year Trail Running Albania consist of 4 races per year. It aims to seek future Albania trail runners and bring them as the world-class athletes, to educate the community to protect the awe-inspiring nature and environments where we play and compete.
Each of the four races has been specifically selected because of the scenery, the challenge, the history and the atmosphere that they offer to both the runners and to the public. Steep and technical will be main highlight of the race course. This will be the love and hate relationship that each runner has during our races
Trail Running
The popularity of trail running has spread all over Europe and many runners are changing from road running to trails. The reason is simple. Trail running gives you the real feeling of freedom and being in the mountains through day and night makes your experience something special. As a result, every year the number of trail running events and series not only across Europe but also worldwide is increasing. People simply want to do races and not only through summer but also in winter. As a matter of fact, series of races are also a reason to train and to have a certain challenge and goal ahead of you.
Having a hard and challenging race or a series of races coming up, is a perfect motivation. There are many hard trainings which make you ready for any race and without a race motivation it is hard to go out and suffer especially when it is cold winter or after work in the night and dark.
On the other hand, many trail runners say they also love the work out and simply being outside in nature and mountains. At the end, if you do well in your dream race you will never forget it and this motivates you to train even harder.
Every trail running event or a race is different and has something special. It depends on the location, the profile of the certain region and also the time because some races start at night. But don’t get it wrong: All races are hard! Some are harder with more elevation and longer distance than others but for example, weather conditions can make an easy looking race a very hard one. This is the beautiful aspect of trail running because wherever you go, you’ll find new and challenging trails.
Many events also offer a high variety of distances. So, don’t be scared if the event is called “ultra”. In most cases, there are also short distances for beginners and for runners who would like to experience their first trail race.
