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” 1^st 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.

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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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 […]

Canary Trail Events

Premier Trail Running Events in Surrey

Home of the 1st Annual Headtorchruns Marathon

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Copthorne 100 – 2022

My Pain Belongs to the Divine

I carried a packet of crisps..

Racing again- the Two Towers 50km night race

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