The Logbook for the Trail Running World
The Logbook for the Trail Running World
By Mathias Eichler
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Just a month until the new Skyrunner USA National Series kicks off. Four incredible races invite you to touch the sky: Whiteface Skyrace, Beast of Big Creek, Skeetawk Skyline Scramble, Kismet Cliff Run.
Gabriel Solomon with a thought-provoking essay on LinkedIn titled: ‘Major City Marathons Don’t Belong to Organizers‘. The premise Gabriel put forward is pretty straightforward:
You can’t simply move the Bucharest Marathon to another city and expect it to remain the same event. You couldn’t move the Paris Marathon to Lyon or the Rome Marathon to Milan and pretend nothing changed.
It’s worth reading the whole article – despite it being on LinkedIn – and taking a moment to reflect on how this translates to the trail races we’ve built and enjoy.
He concludes:
[…] organizers often discover that the most valuable asset was never the logo, the trademark, or even the event name. It was the trust of the community.
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