Freetrail’s Hall of Fame

Pre-hyped for days, announced today:

Today, we’re excited to announce a big new development for the sport that will debut at TrailCon in just a few weeks – the Trail Running Hall of Fame. 

Of note: an American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame already exists:

The American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame was originally established by The American Ultrarunning Association (AUA)that was founded in 1990 by Dan Brannen. In 2020, the Hall of Fame was transferred to ultrarunninghistory.com with Davy Crockett providing oversight.

Freetrail’s is different though, maybe:

Much of what Freetrail has done over the last few years is take existing concepts from other sports and repurpose them for trail running. 

Ultrarunning isn’t all that different from trail running and while Freetrail’s Trail Runner of the Year Awards have always had a more global and broader aim and one also focused on short distances, with this award the distinction isn’t as clearly defined, as of yet.

Dylan concludes:

We really hope the TrailCon Award Show becomes an important annual tradition with new Hall of Fame classes inducted each year. 

We shall see how this plays out. Clearly Freetrail’s HOF version will be different and has bigger (more commercial ambitions): There will be an award show (during TrailCon), a big time sponsor (Nike) is attached, and several other awards will be handed out, including a ‘Community Impact Award’ and a ‘Icon Award’