Welcome to Acorn Trails
Acorn Trails will be bringing you all the best in trail running around Glasgow, South West Scotland and beyond.
Events
From the Race Director who brought the acclaimed South By Five series to Glasgow, Acorn Trails brings you Scottish classics such as the Clydestride Ultra Marathon, and Mull of Galloway Trail events. Adding to the growing forest of events, keep your eye on fresh seedlings in the Rouken Glen Trail Race, and the return of the Duncan Macfarlane Race.
Guided Trails Runs
Alex and other experienced trail runners will lead regular runs in the dirt for all levels from newbie to the trails, to the experienced mud-hoggers.
Blogs
Hosting several blogs including old favourites Auntie Anne, Jim the Dog and Running with Romy.
We also have a space for guest bloggers, so if you fancy getting your latest thoughts and musings published on a site with plenty of through traffic, please drop us a line
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Latest from the Blog
“No bad”
With the dust barely settling on the Duncan Macfarlane Race, download were done, route tweaks completed and volunteers organised for another event. Who can believe it’s been twelve months since South By Five began, and here we are again. As a wee reminder Facebook pushed up a memory – Alex pounding up those steps at Queens Park before heading to the finish line of the South Side Six. It was what transpired to be the […]
Spring forward at the Dunky
The clocks may have gone backwards, but the runners certainly sprung forward off the start line of the 2024 Duncan Macfarlane Race. Everyone enjoyed their extra hour in bed, here at Acorn HQ, we were up spritely to pack the car, and squeeze in some last minute race admin! Printer issues. Why don’t printers ever work when you need them to? Michelle had activated her weather machine and once again defied the forecast to have […]
Yellow is the new black
Course marking on Saturday was windy! We left Stranraer and headed south towards the start in Sandhead. Signage was strapped in with a wee wing and a prayer that it would last to the race start! The beach at Luce Bay was stunning, the sun shone, we met our tail runner and we got pebble dashed! Streams of sand slivered over the beach round and about us. Beautiful! And some hilarity with a blow away […]
Hilly and hot – RGTR ’24 report and results
“Hilly and hot”, not exactly how we advertised this event. Especially the hot bit. You can’t really advertise an event in Scotland as hot. But with the thermometer tipping over 20° before the race finished, I think it’s safe enough to call it hot. For Scotland. Now hilly is as relative as hot! If you spend your time running along the Clyde Walkway, Rouken Glen would definitely be called hilly. The race does take in […]