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Sowing

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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

Brutal B*stard

Brutal B*stard

Another new route. Judging by the in race feedback it wasn’t a good change. Type 2 fun was promised prior to the event. And type 2 fun it was. And it didn’t even take that long for in-race offences to change to finish line compliments! Bastard brutal A post race Strava trawl had many “brutal” comments, mostly related to the route change. Mostly related to the new hill in the new route. Now known affectionately […]

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Migo Mile – The Birthday Bash

Migo Mile – The Birthday Bash

Happy Birthday The Migo Mile is taking place on Sunday 24th November to celebrate the 15th birthday of Migo Sports. All proceeds are to be donated to Migo Sports nominated charity, The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, located in Bellahouston Park. Route Event sponsor Migo Sports are offering a £50 voucher for the course record……fastest male, female and non-binary contested categories.  There will also be some spot prizes throughout the field for the less speedy amongst […]

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“No bad”

“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 […]

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Spring forward at the Dunky

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 […]

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