Impact Marathons

Impact Marathons Run a Marathon | Change Lives

With races in RWANDA, JORDAN, NEPAL, & GUATEMALA

An international race series, tackling the Global Goals, now live in Nepal, Malawi, Jordan, Kenya, Scotland & Guatemala

18/05/2026

If this place exists…
why aren’t we running there right now?

Pacaya Volcano. Guatemala.
This is what Impact Marathon looks like - and you’re invited.

Registrations for 2027 opening Wednesday 20 May!

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13/05/2026

The race is kind of the easy part.

This will be our eighth race in Guatemala. Running up a volcano in 30 degree heat should be the tough bit. And it is.

Until you set it next to what our partners do every day.
SERES help young indigenous leaders find their voice and change their communities. We have run alongside the team through volcanic eruptions, through gang violence in the neighbourhoods, through the slow non-linear work of building something real.

When you run with us, you are supporting the team. It is their work that makes Impact Marathon what it is.
Not another race.
Not another medal.
A run that truly matters.

Guatemala Impact Week opens for international runners on Friday 15th May at noon.

Comment waitlist or tap the link in our bio to be there first.

Why isn’t Guatemala already on more trail running bucket lists?It has 37 volcanoes, three of them active. Serious trail ...
12/05/2026

Why isn’t Guatemala already on more trail running bucket lists?

It has 37 volcanoes, three of them active.
Serious trail races around Antigua and Atitlán.
Mayan paths above the lake.
Crater lakes you can swim in.
Lava fields you can run across.

And a trail community that grew from a handful of runners chasing volcano sunrises into one of the most welcoming scenes anywhere.

It’s not obvious in the way the Alps are obvious.
That’s part of why we love it.

Guatemala asks you to look properly. The running is unreal, it’s brilliant, but there is so much more to why we love exploring here. There is always a sense of the unknown, an excitement that grows as the trail sweeps through, of the climb takes another switchback.

It’s trail running heaven - and should be on every trail runners bucket list!

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That is why our Impact Week starts before race day.
Guatemala Impact Race opens in 3 days.

10km/21km/42km.
Antigua base. Small group.
Comment Waitlist or visit LinkinBio to join

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Let’s run together. With others. For others.

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579 kilometres. On a public bus. With a 7-year-old girl needing hospital.That's the first line on a report sitting on my...
07/05/2026

579 kilometres. On a public bus. With a 7-year-old girl needing hospital.

That's the first line on a report sitting on my desk this week. One page of A4 from our Nepal partner, Burns Violence Survivors Nepal, accounting for a year of work. This year, Impact Runners supported three patients.

BVS-Nepal works from one modest office in Dhobighat. Every rupee accounted for, and has been for 10 years now. We even know we've got a closing balance carried forward to next year.

We're going to need your help to build that balance back up and grow the impact again...but that's not the topic here.

And honestly, this is the stuff that keeps us going.

Full story here:

https://impactmarathon.substack.com/p/five-hundred-and-seventy-nine-kilometres

08/04/2026

We’ve been doing this for 11 years now.

Not because we got it right first time. Because we kept showing up, kept listening, kept making it better for everyone involved. The runners, the communities, the partners on the ground.

Most companies wouldn’t attempt what an Impact Week asks of them. Small groups, real projects, genuine relationships with people who live there. It’s harder to deliver. It’s harder to scale. But it’s the whole point.

And then someone comes home and says they made friends for life and feel like they made a difference somewhere. And you think, yeah. We’ll keep going.

Nepal. 16–22 November 2026. From £1,295.

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This is the thinking that underpins everything we build.Over ten years, across four continents, a clear order has emerge...
01/04/2026

This is the thinking that underpins everything we build.

Over ten years, across four continents, a clear order has emerged for what makes an Impact Week actually work:

Community. Culture. Commerce. Challenge.

The order matters.

Challenge may be what brings people in. But it is not where we start.

We start with community because the work must be rooted in something real.
We build through culture because a place should be experienced, not ticked off.
We think seriously about commerce because impact is also about where our money goes.
And then comes challenge, not as the whole point, but as the culmination of everything that came before it.

These 4 Cs will be tied to every story we share over the months ahead, but they are also the foundation underneath the whole thing.

This is what we are building from.

If you want the fuller thinking behind it, the blog is linked in bio.

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there’s a moment happening right now.entry fees for a single race are climbing. the commercialisation of adventure racin...
16/03/2026

there’s a moment happening right now.
entry fees for a single race are climbing. the commercialisation of adventure racing is accelerating. the much loved, smaller events are folding and people are starting to ask… what is any of this actually for?

we’ve always known the answer.
impact marathon exists for people who want to run somewhere that matters.

not tick it off a list. not post the medal. not be one of ten thousand.

running himalayan trails this november, after spending a week building something real in a mountain community that has been with us for seven years.

that’s it. that’s the whole thing.

the world feels uncertain right now. running somewhere with a history of
true resilience feels like exactly the right response.

nepal. 16–22 november 2026. 10km / 23km / 42km
from £1,295

register before 31 march.
receive a free handmade down jacket, made in nepal.
link in bio.

Medal Monday, but no two are the same.In a sea of metal, Impact medals stand apart.We don’t stamp them out on a producti...
09/02/2026

Medal Monday, but no two are the same.

In a sea of metal, Impact medals stand apart.

We don’t stamp them out on a production line.
They are handmade, shapes by the community and built with the community that welcomes us in.

Over the last ten years our medals have been made from ceramics, various woods, coconut, silk, recycled plastic. Chosen for where we are and who we’re with. Each one different, by design.

They’re not just markers of distance or time.
They carry the story of how you ran, where you ran, and why you ran.

Every Impact runner is unique.
So every Impact medal is unique.
And that will never change.

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03/02/2026

The magic of connection before race day.

It’s not fly in, run, fly out.

We really get to know a place before we run.

Then every step becomes that bit more special, that bit more powerful.

That’s where the magic happens.

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02/02/2026

Welcome to Guatemala.

Confession time!

When we landed in Guatemala in 2015, we hadn’t done too much research. We had met at the WTM and thought “this country sounds amazing for an Impact Marathon”.

But we didn’t realise just how much the country had to offer, and had to say.

To this day, each time an Impact runner lands in-country, we love seeing them taken by surprise as to just how special the nation and how jaw dropping it truly is!

It has to be experienced, if it’s not on you list, just go pop it on there now. Come for our race, or visit in your own time - we will always be cheerleading for this remarkable nation!

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