Running years 2024: Trier records and big events are pending!
Running years 2024: Trier records and big events are pending!
The Trier region looks back on an eventful run year 2024, which was characterized by the participant records and the steadily growing popularity of running sports. According to the Volksfreund Last year took part in 59 events, which the third highest result depicts after the years 2019 and 2015.
The Olympic participants Gesa Krause, Olivia Gürth and Samuel Fitwi, all of whom are connected to the New Year's Run Trier, must be particularly emphasized. In addition, the region celebrated two significant anniversaries: the 10th Saarburger Lauf and the 25th cross -border run in Bleialf. These events have established themselves as fixed sizes in the running calendar and contribute to positioning the region as a running hotspot.popularity of the city run and sustainable medal
One of the central events is the Trier city run, which recently set up another participant record with 3,500 registrations. Due to the high demand, all starting places have already been awarded, which the organizers presented with the challenge of not allowing any late registrations for the first time. The medals made from wood this year underline the efforts to sustainability, which also addresses the has.
These sustainable approaches are part of the project "On the way to sustainable sport (large) events in Germany", which is supported with funding of around 700,000 euros. Here, a focus is on ecological, social and economic sustainability in order to develop standards and recommendations for environmentally friendly sporting events. In addition to large event organizers, the initiative also includes small and medium-sized events to integrate sustainability into running.
growing demand and traffic disruptions
The increasing demand for running events in the region is not only on the city run, but also on the Trier company run, which with over 4,600 participants is the largest sporting event in the region. Running groups are extremely in demand, which sometimes leads to full groups. Judith Knob leads a running group for the women's run with 40 active participants.
The popularity of running has increased through corona pandemic. Many people discovered the advantages of running during the Lockdown, be it to increase fitness or as a way to reduce stress. At the same time, the high number of participants in the city run leads to considerable traffic disruptions in the city center, with blocked roads and diverted bus lines.
The organizers plan to increase the number of starting places for the city run in 2025 to up to 4,000 in order to meet the great demand. In addition to these developments, the local running community endeavors to promote interest in running through diverse events such as triathlons, duathlons and swim & run events.
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