About Us
Canary Trail Events are an environmentally friendly trail running company based in Surrey, bringing you exceptionally runner friendly, trail races, marathons, Ultra marathons & special charity raising events.
Our team has years of experience in running races from 5k all the way up to 500km, guiding night runs with runners of all abilities & putting on our big charity fundraiser of the year over the festive period, the now “famous” 1st Annual Headtorchruns Marathon.
The team at Canary Trails are incredibly passionate about trail running & we work hard to create amazing events in the Surrey Hills & North Downs, areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Canary Trail Events is home to the original Copthorne Coffee race place. The idea is based on the Pending/Suspended coffee which started out in Italy as a way of buying a person in need a cup of coffee in an anonymous act of charity.
Indeed, Canary Trail Events Mission Statement is:
To bring challenging race formats to areas of outstanding beauty, whilst maintaining a back-to-basics style of event.
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Some Recent Photos
Disabilities Don't Dictate
Copthorne 100 – 2022
I’ve known Allan Rumbles – the RD of Canary Trail Events – since the early days of the Wednesday nights head torch runs and done many runs with him. The most notable were when he joined me for part of a 50km Christmas day run and the ill feted attempt at Lon Las 2017 where […]
My Pain Belongs to the Divine
This is an incredibly hard post to write although it’s not because I failed; it’s because I feel quite numb and somehow my brain won’t let me remember. It’s not quite the write-up I want, but it’s the best I can do for now. I’ve documented my training over the last 11 months and I […]
I carried a packet of crisps..
It’s some time past 1am and my watch tells me I have been on the move for more than five hours. Five hours. How can this be possible? Things have got a bit dream-like. I am making my way in the darkness around the southern paths of the Polesden estate. Sometimes I attempt a slow […]
Racing again- the Two Towers 50km night race
After a gap of almost a year I did a race. I thought I’d forgotten how to do this ultra-running stuff and spent at least the week prior to the race stressing, worrying, not sleeping and not eating but it turns out I hadn’t forgotten at all… The Two Towers 50k is a new race […]
