Welcome to Acorn Trails
Acorn Trails bring you all the best in trail running around Glasgow, South West Scotland and beyond.
Events
Acorn Trails have events from Mugdock to Mull of Galloway!
The acclaimed South By Five series is not to be missed during the winter months, whilst the spring and summer are packed with trail events in Glasgow’s south side parks.
Early autumn leads us down to Galloway for the awesome Mull of Galloway events including the scenic Sandhead10, before heading back north to Mugdock Park for the classic Duncan Macfarlane Race. Will we see you at the Dunky?
Check out the Events section for more details on our calendar of races.
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
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Latest from the Blog
Saints Day
St. Andrew’s Day The sky shone blue on another beautiful South By Five day. All that was needed was a couple of crossed contrails to celebrate St Andrews Day…. It wasn’t just a blue sky, runners were encouraged to celebrate and several of yous came attired accordingly. Volunteers also joined in, and Colin the Clown AKA Colin the Cone became Coin the Kilt. The alliteration continues, lets see what he comes up with for the […]
Duck Tales
A beautiful cold crisp morning for our “home race”. Linn Park is a just a few hundred metres from Acorn HQ, and Jim is well versed in every nook and cranny in the park. Means Alex can get out even earlier for the course marking. Disappointingly the mud was frozen as was the duck pond! But it had a few hours at that stage to defrost. And it did…. Interest Race 2 at Linn Park […]
And so it begins….
They say “mighty oaks from little acorns grow” so it is very fitting that race one of Acorn Trails signature series, South By Five, starts under the aging boughs of an old oak tree. And so it begins…. Oak trees are well renowned for their strength, resilience, perseverance and endurance. We’re only at race 1 and already our runners are displaying these traits in abundance. Entrants travelling from far and wide to make the start […]