Run this Land
About this race
MTRC Run this Land (Virtual Challenge)
Dates: November 1 – November 30
Cost: FREE!
Where: Any trail in Minnesota (or wherever your feet take you!)
Kick off Season 2 of the MN Trail Run Collective with our first virtual challenge focused on running with purpose. Throughout November, recognized as National Native American Heritage Month, "Run This Land" invites runners across Minnesota to log trail miles while acknowledging, honoring and exploring the history of the ancestral lands we run every day.
Whether you are winding through suburban park preserves, crunching through oak savannas or climbing ridgelines along the North Shore, every foot of Minnesota trail carries a deep history that predates park borders, Strava segments and race bibs.
How It Works:
Investigate the Land: Before you head out, look up the treaty boundaries and ancestral homelands of your route at Native-Land.ca.
Log Trail Miles: Run, hike or walk on any trail across Minnesota anytime from Nov. 1 through Nov. 30. All paces and distances count.
Follow the Naturalist Modules: Check our Instagram page each week for four guided field modules covering ancestral geography, local dendrology and fungi, watershed dynamics and late-fall phenology.
Connect the Collective: Share your trail findings, log your observations and tag your photos using the hashtag #MTRCRunThisLand.
Free to join, open to all paces and accessible from any trailhead across the state. Explore more, run with intention and join the collective.
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Typical race-day weather
Based on 3 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Minnesota City, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:43 AM and sets at 4:57 PM local time (CST) in Minnesota City on November 1, 2026 — 10h 13m of daylight.
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 2 Minnesota City events
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