Who we are
Matt Jones - Race Director/Owner
The team at Only Footprints Events is me and a number of volunteers who are supporting me in putting on events for you to take part in.
I am a pretty experienced marathon/ultra marathon runner, with pretty unspectacular times. I consider myself a semi professional tail runner having helped numerous events in this position. And I love nothing more than helping runners across the line especially those who may be struggling during an event.
The inspiration for starting Only Footprints Events came from taking part in events big and small across the UK and abroad, and noticing how much waste came from these events.
I aim to put on events with the opposite approach and if I can spread this ethos of recycling waste and being carbon neutral along the way, then I am doing the right thing.
All of our events will be offset to make sure they a carbon neutral, from a car journey to a purchase of some cable ties.
There will always be an option to offset your journey to and from our events. Along with an option to purchase a tree with Trees not Tees in place of taking a race T-shirt (don’t worry, we will still be selling them). And we are also working with ReRun clothing and clothing bins will be on site to enable participants to donate their old running clothes to this excellent cause.
And every route we use will be litter picked twice - once when signage is erected and again when we finish. To ensure that we do only leave footprints…