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Trail Running Stories
![Run to the Source](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/kay-m-0001-tile-768x926.jpg.webp)
Martin Johnson embarks on his most challenging run, as he explores the connection between Black British history and the River Thames.
![Keeping Pace](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/davis-brendan-0282-cc-web-hero-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
One runner gets her fix helping others chase their dreams, again and again.
![Running Led Me Home](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/rodriguez-jr-0002-cc-web-hero-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
After years of trying to fit in with Western trail culture, one runner realizes that what she’s been missing lies in the Colombian mountains of her youth.
![Running Up For Air](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/woodward-f-1111-cc-web-2560x1440-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
In the face of declining air quality, a community of runners rises up.
![Breaking Trail for Clean Air](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/woodward-f-1111-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Running Up For Air is not a race. It’s a community, a gathering of friends and a fundraiser for clean-air advocacy.
![A Matter of Breathing](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/johnson-e-0022-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Running won’t solve the issue of wood pellet biomass pollution. But it can ignite community and conversation—and that’s a start.
![The 150-Mile Test](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/noll-e-0014-cc-web-9x16-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A Patagonia advanced R&D designer takes to the Swedish alpine to test out a new pack prototype—and a bold idea for rethinking multiday trail travel.
![Run for Something](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/romey-m-0002-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Footprints Running Camp is as much about finding solutions to the climate crisis as it is about running.
![In Search of Silence](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/gnam-s-1084-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A runner explores what it takes to find quiet in the world, and in our minds.
![Prayer Run for Oak Flat](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/price-s-0007-cc-web-2000x1500-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Reflections on the 2022 Oak Flat Prayer Run, a gathering and a protest of a planned copper mine that could destroy this sacred site.
![Dark River Runs Deep](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cato-hm-0017-cc-web-2250x1500-1-768x512.jpg.webp)
An attempt to set the fastest known time on the 184-mile path to the source of the River Thames.
![Run to Be Visible](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/runto-bevisible-hero-tile-768x1024.jpg.webp)
Lydia Jennings honors Indigenous scientists of the past, present and future.
![For the Land We Inhabit](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/manns-r-0112-cc-web-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
The communities of Cajón del Maipo, in Chile, are seeing their environment be threatened by an unnecessary hydroelectric project.
![Corriendo para salvar una Cuenca (Run to Save a Watershed)](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/episode-1-tile-768x1024.jpg.webp)
Trail runner and activist Felipe Cancino takes us on a 120 km run through the Maipo River Valley—revealing along the way the impacts of the Alto Maipo hydropower project on the local ecosystem, its communities and traditions; and the threat it poses to the water supply of Santiago’s 7.1 million residents.
![A Clean Run in the City](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/py-21-05-21-1-1-768x580.jpg.webp)
Campaigning for clean air might be a marathon, but progress is finally being made for communities in UK city centers.
![Running the Isle](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/prelle-m-0007-cc-web-768x576.jpg.webp)
Exploring one of the least visited but most revisited national parks, on foot.
![Did You Ever Think?](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/patitucci-d-0415-cc-web-768x432.jpg.webp)
After a difficult year, a runner finds life anew in the Sierra.
![Connecting the Cochamó and Puelo Valleys](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/manns_r_0037-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A dead-end dirt road is the start to a new challenge—and a fight to protect South America’s Yosemite.
![Unfenced](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/1920x2560-768x1024.jpg.webp)
The Red Desert in southwest Wyoming is the largest unfenced area in the continental United States. In order to raise awareness about this threatened ecosystem, several Wyoming conservation groups have banded together to organize a trail race that brings runners, local stakeholders, and concerned citizens together to experience this place and see exactly what is at stake.
![Some Boundaries are Worth Preserving](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/190630_runbwca_03_0139-768x432.jpg.webp)
Running through the most-visited wilderness in the continental United States, rallying to its defense.
![Run the Red](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/copeland_s_0001-2000x1125-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A trail running race in southwest Wyoming brings attention to the importance of protecting the largest unfenced area in the contiguous United States.
![Running to the Bottom of the World](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/manns_r_0018_cc_web-16-9-768x432.jpg.webp)
Exploring South America’s public lands on foot.
![The Most Obvious Line](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/campbell_jared_0002-2500x1406-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Luke Nelson's FKT on the Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup.
![Where Life Begins: Patagonia Ambassadors Explore the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/siadak_a_0746-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
![FFFKT (Fastest Fish Fourteener Known Time)](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/etzel_k_1451-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
Jenn Shelton traverses the Sierra High Route.
![If You Love It, Run for It: Dispatch from the Inaugural Takayna Ultramarathon](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/lynch_j_0225-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
Krissy Moehl reports from the inaugural takayna ultramarathon “There are no footprints.” Fellow Patagonia ambassador and New Zealand native Grant Guise voiced what I was thinking. Our headlamps and phone lights dimly illuminated the overgrown double-track from Rebecca Road. “If 100 people are starting a race in five minutes, we would see footprints,” he said…
![Introducing “Training for the Uphill Athlete” by Steve House](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gnam_s_0498_cc_web-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
In his new book, Training for the Uphill Athlete, Steve House joins forces with coach Scott Johnston and athlete Kílian Jornet to develop a comprehensive approach to finding the joy and the payoff of intense training effort. Even lunges. The wind had made its presence known all night, the tiny tent shaking off its layer…
![Seven Recommendations for Trail Racing and Training](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/house_s_0252_cc_feb19_1600tcl-768x424.jpg.webp)
Patagonia is thrilled to publish Steve House and Scott Johnston’s second training book, Training for the Uphill Athlete, for which they teamed up with world-class endurance athlete Kílian Jornet. This is an excerpt from the book, now available in Patagonia stores, on Patagonia.com, and at your favorite bookstore or online distributor. I race a lot:…
![A Very Large, Long Group Run Through the Bob Marshall Wilderness](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gnam_s_0428_cc_feb19_1600tcl-768x424.jpg.webp)
For the slo-mo, bug-bitten, exhausted joy of really long runs. Time expands and compresses on long runs. Moments of navigation or extended discomfort can seem endless, while the landscape sifts by like a slow-moving picture. And then suddenly it’s been hours that slipped by without you noticing, except for the subtle changes in light and…
![Home Run: How the Braford Family Connects by Foot](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gnam08511600TCL1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
Some families share religion, camping, lavish vacations, opera. Other families go running.