Mud, hills, hysterical laughter. Okay I kid, those things don’t always apply, but not going to deny that they sometimes will occur – it is trail racing. But in all seriousness you can expect to have a fun new adventure and be well taken care of in your trail running experience.

Our Race standards.

We always aim to provide the best races we can to the best of our abilities. And we try really hard, I mean like really, really hard! This is our passion to provide you with something we love, and we want you to enjoy doing it. And especially love it when people get the chance to try something new, discover these great places and go on adventures – all things that we love.

Always more important than you may think in a race. They are there for you to get your small top up of energy, fluids, or sweets and treats. Whether it aids you physically in helping provide your body with enough of a top up it needs to keep going. Or it’s a mental boost to help put a smile on your face. A good aid station can make the difference to your race. So grab and go or stay and chat a bit, it’s here for you.

We do some of the best medals in town, all designed by your Race Director and made to be linked with the area and the race to make your medal more meaningful. Nice size and great designs, because you deserve it, and we know when you finish a race you want and deserve to feel rewarded.

Although, if medals aren’t for you – that’s cool, we don’t judge. We do have a non medal option that offers a discount off of the price of your entry.

The people. We are lucky in this line of work that 99.999999% of the people who attend these races are lovely people. From marshals to runners there are great people all around. We are so lucky to have so many wonderful friends, family and strangers help us out to support our runners. And to have such lovely runners join us. We have people of so many different backgrounds, lives, abilities, reasons to run, join to have one massive thing in common.

Great First aid is an essential part of races and can be the difference between life and death. That’s why we always bring in professionals and ensure that there is an appropriate space for any first aiding needs, there is always a way to get you off the course as quickly and safely as possible.

And in case that’s not enough we make sure to have our core team first aid trained, and for all those minor scrapes that you may get during the race we make sure that our marshals have plasters and bits in available in their marshal packs for you to use.

Of course these are trail races so it can be tricky to get distances spot on as it’s hard to map out how much tight turns, different speeds, tree coverage and ‘undulations’ may affect what the good old route planner and tracker
makes it out to be. So don’t be discouraged if your watch says differently. But we do make sure to do our due diligence, mapping out the routes in advance, walking them and running them, seeing what different results make it out to be. We always aim to make our races within 0.5 miles of the stated distance at most! So you be sure that you are safe on running a good distance with Flying Fox Running.

We try our best to provide a fun, friendly and welcoming atmosphere to our runners and helpers. We want you to enjoy it, whether you are trying something new, have masses of experience, going for a PB, or going for a jolly. For an idea of the atmosphere we go for check out some of our signage.