Our Mission is to improve lives through running. We focus on developing a tight knit community and new relationships through our coaching, team support, trail-run adventures, and races.
What is Trail Roots?
Trail Roots was created by Erik Stanley to support the growing Austin trail-running community. Trail Roots emerged to provide focused and customized training for all levels of runners in Austin in a guided and safe environment.
Provided for beginner runners are marked and supervised trail runs and running workouts each week in a group setting. For the intermediate or competitive runner, in addition to the organized group runs, Erik also works one-on-one with runners to create a custom schedule tailored to personal goals and individual needs. Direct feedback is also provided during workouts.
Why run trails?
Trail running is perfect for any runner whether it is your main running focus or a simply a break from the road scene. An effective balance of combining long weekend trail runs with weekly road and track "quality" workouts is used to help you reach your goals, no matter what they are. If you love to run the trail but still want to race on the road this is a great program for you.
Running trails is beneficial for the road runner because the ancillary and stabilizer muscles are engaged much more than during runs on the road. Because of this, trails are a great option for injury prevention and working other parts of the body that remain mostly unused on the road. Trail Roots visits many of the trails in the Austin area and occasionally expands further out to other trails and races across Central Texas and even to the rest of the country. These runs outside of the Austin area are on a quarterly basis to give the more experienced trail runners a fresh perspective and the opportunity to change up routine.
What is Trail Roots?
Trail Roots was created by Erik Stanley to support the growing Austin trail-running community. Trail Roots emerged to provide focused and customized training for all levels of runners in Austin in a guided and safe environment.
Provided for beginner runners are marked and supervised trail runs and running workouts each week in a group setting. For the intermediate or competitive runner, in addition to the organized group runs, Erik also works one-on-one with runners to create a custom schedule tailored to personal goals and individual needs. Direct feedback is also provided during workouts.
Why run trails?
Trail running is perfect for any runner whether it is your main running focus or a simply a break from the road scene. An effective balance of combining long weekend trail runs with weekly road and track "quality" workouts is used to help you reach your goals, no matter what they are. If you love to run the trail but still want to race on the road this is a great program for you.
Running trails is beneficial for the road runner because the ancillary and stabilizer muscles are engaged much more than during runs on the road. Because of this, trails are a great option for injury prevention and working other parts of the body that remain mostly unused on the road. Trail Roots visits many of the trails in the Austin area and occasionally expands further out to other trails and races across Central Texas and even to the rest of the country. These runs outside of the Austin area are on a quarterly basis to give the more experienced trail runners a fresh perspective and the opportunity to change up routine.
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Trail Roots and the community
Runners who train with us tend to have common goals. These, in general, are to improve and challenge one’s physical and mental capacity and to give back to the community. Our programs do this by providing the support and guidance needed through the group members and the coach. For our community, Trail Roots has created ways to give back and maintain the land we love and use. We host bi-monthly volunteer and clean-up days in our city and state parks. Learn more about service days. Training Method The training consists of 1 to 2 hill or speed training workouts each week during the weekdays with 1 weekly trail long run on Saturdays. The locations vary during the week from road, track, or trail. However, the weekend long-run is always on the trail. Trail Roots™ takes our training to another level by incorporating mobility and hurdle drills and strength exercise routines to keep you healthy and running! We can work with each runner to create a custom training plan that gives them the tools required to healthily achieve their goals. Sign up now! |