My First Trail Run: Getting Your Shoes Dirty to Remember Why You Run (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798279347483)

My First Trail Run is not a training manual.
It's a story about what happens when you stop running the way you think you should.

If you're a road runner curious about trail running, this book won't tell you how fast to go or how to perform better.
Instead, it walks with you through the experience of a first trail run - the doubts, the slowing down, the mistakes, and the unexpected clarity that comes from listening instead of forcing.

Trail running changes the rules.
Time stops being the center.
Walking becomes part of running.
Attention matters more than pace.

Through short chapters and honest reflections, Igor Chiarle explores what the trail teaches when you're willing to let go of control:
how fear becomes awareness,
how respect replaces competition,
and how running can become quieter - and more meaningful.

The book includes practical appendices for runners approaching their first 10 km trail, not as a performance goal, but as an experience to understand.

This is a book for runners who feel that something in their running is shifting.
For those who don't need another plan - but a different perspective.

Because your first trail run doesn't have to go well.
It just has to teach you something.