Impact Marathons

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

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 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 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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Moments like this remind us why we do the hard work behind the scenes.

Shared effort.
Mutual respect.
Big belief.

We’re working with some exceptional people on plans that will drive extraordinary change in the lives of amazing people. True heroes.

More soon.

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This is the kind of running we keep coming back to.

Not crowds.
Not competition.
Not ticking off a distance.

Just a small group, moving through extraordinary places, sharing the work, the effort, and the experience of being fully present.

Rwanda Impact Marathon 2026 is taking shape in a completely new location. It’s remote. It’s deliberate. And it only works with the right people in the room.

The waitlist gets the first update tomorrow.
Registration opens Friday.

Treasure every step.

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Join the 10 Year Anniversary
Of our Nepal Impact Marathon

Our original race…

November 2026

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