Trail Running Croatia

Races in the neighbourhood

Hi, we have a new feature on the web. It’s not anything big. We decided to add another thing to a list of things that we promote: races in the neighbourhood. If you would like to promote your race on our website and the race is in the Croatian neighbourhood (I don’t have a formula how far it can be, let’s just stick to neighbor countries…) contact us.

Our first offer to all of you who will be near is La corsa della bora (English: The Bora wind run, Croatian: Utrka bure). It’s a nice technical course and you can choose between two distances: 53km and 21km. The date is 06 Jan 2016 and you can find more information on official web site (English, Croatian, Slovenian).

So let’s say that you make this New Year’s resolution: “I will run a 50k this year”. You can fulfill it by the end of the week!! 🙂

There are plenty of more races in Slovenia (e.g. 100 Ultra Trail Vipava Valley) or Bosnia (e.g. Jahorina Trail) that could be interesting for anyone visiting or living in Croatia so we’ll try to keep you informed about what’s going on in the neighborhood…

P.S. The last big feature update was interactive map with races and trails so if you missed that one, check it out here. It’s also accessible by that green button in top right corner. It’s on every page.

Risnjak Trail 2015

Routes for Risnjak Trail have been confirmed. They are only slightly changed and will be 16.14 km and 29.5 km long.

I wanted to say that you can read in my last year’s review how well the race was organised and how beautiful the trail was, but I’ve just realized that I haven’t written the review… 🙁 Instead, I am posting some pictures that I took.

Registrations will open on February 10th. There’s a limited number of places, so don’t wait for the last moment…

2nd birthday

Trail Running Croatia is celebrating 2nd birthday! 🙂

TRC has learned to walk. It’s no longer a baby, it’s a child! 🙂 We will continue to be with you in our childish years, we’ll try to recommend you our best trails and find company for running. If you are passing through Zagreb, feel free to stop for a short run on Medvednica, if you have a plan to run some of Croatian races, maybe we can meet there.

It’s always a pleasure to meet foreign runners, exchange some stories and share our passion. In last two years, our website got views from more than 100 countries from ~~all~~ most of the continents (see the map). We are still waiting for a first view from Antarctica (not on a map??). 🙂 More than half of the views come outside of Croatia and we are happy to see this number increasing – it means that people from all over find some interest in trail running in Croatia (I guess not all of these are web crawlers 😉 ).

Thank you. See you somewhere…

Cape Kamenjak

We added (finally!) a new trail description to our database. 🙂 It’s one of my favorite places in Croatia – Cape Kamenjak in Istria. It’s a beautiful destination, at southernmost tip of Istria. The area is protected as significant landscape so take extra care to leave no trace. You can leave your car in Premantura, or enter the Kamenjak (fee is paid for car). If you go in summer, don’t miss Safari bar at the end of peninsula.

Last April, there was a trail race here, during Outdoor festival Kamenjak Rocky Trails. We hope the tradition will continue.

Happy running…

Zagorje Trek

I don’t know any other race with such variety of food and drinks (both alcoholic(!) and non-alcoholic) at checkpoints. Sometimes, it’s hard to leave the checkpoint. 🙂 After all, maybe it’s not that important to finish the race as fast as you can… It’s ok if you take your time and enjoy…

If the food at the race is not important for you (???), you still have a very interesting race to run, with lots of options between checkpoints 😉 It’s hilly and you can run near many vineyards. The combination of nature and nurture is optimal. 🙂

Registrations for Zagorje Trek are opened.