If you want to discover Kitzbühel and its vacation villages, you have many options. Running is one of them. But you don't have to achieve top athletic performance, because the KitzRunning network covers all requirements: from easy to extremely challenging, from asphalt to gravel paths to mountain trails. How intensively you want to experience nature is entirely up to you.
Running through Kitzbühel
If you want to take in the enchanting landscape of our region on the spur of the moment, simply slip on your running shoes and start right outside your front door. Because one of the 23 signposted running routes in and around Kitzbühel is always close by - whether it's a short city circuit, a hilly Steuerberg run or a sweaty route over the Streif.
For those who like to know what to expect, there is the Laufland Tirol guidance system for the total of 170 KitzRunning kilometers. This not only ensures excellent routes that have been selected, tested and classified by experts, but also offers safety. By means of two boards each, the direction, difficulty, distance and kilometers run are regularly displayed on the runs. So the running map can stay at home and the pulse as well as the speed can be adjusted in the best possible way.
Mountain running for beginners and professionals
The best way to experience nature in all its immediacy is trail running. On eleven marked routes through forests and across alpine meadows, imposing views of the peaks are a constant companion. If you don't want to just leave it at the view of the highest peaks of the Kitzbühel Alps, you will find challenging summit tours on the Hahnenkamm, the Kitzbüheler Horn and in the South Mountains in Aurach and Jochberg. Trail running beginners are in good hands on the routes in the valley. However, boredom does not arise there either, because the trails await with varied routes. Whether lakes, rivers, forests or meadows - the closeness of nature is tangible at every meter.
Nordic walking in the Gamsstadt
It doesn't always have to be the running stride with which our running routes are covered. A large part of it can also be explored in a wonderfully relaxing way by Nordic walking. The slower pace and the use of special poles not only protect the joints, but also train the upper body.
Competitions for the fastest
The Streif has long made a name for itself as a legendary ski race. But did you know that the race course can also be walked? The spectacular downhill course serves as the stage for no less than three running events. In the inov-8 Descent Race+ Kitzbühel, the Streif has to be mastered first downhill and then uphill, while the World Extreme Run Challenge uses the opposite route. The Vertical Up, which takes place in February, offers a real Streif feeling. The run is exclusively uphill - with spikes, crampons or touring skis.
Those who not only have fast legs but also a good sense of direction can take part in the Tristkogel Challenge. Teams of two must first master a mountain bike course and then a mountain running course. Where? The participants only find out immediately after the start.
One of the most famous mountain runs in Austria is the Kitzbüheler Horn Lauf. 1234 meters of altitude on a 12.9 km long course with a gradient of up to 25 percent await the athletes, the finish line is located directly under the transmission mast at 1996 meters above sea level.
By the way, all competitions are not only reserved for professionals. For safety reasons, however, all participants must be in good physical condition.
When the shoe pinches
Hardly any piece of equipment is as essential in running as the shoe. If problems suddenly arise during your vacation, our sports stores will be there to help and advise you. And if the desire to run really takes hold of you here, you will find something for every running style and every requirement - whether jogging, Nordic walking or mountain trails.
