Jade Hegarty

Jade has been a runner for almost twenty years. She moved to Canada in 2021 for one year, where she discovered her love of the trails, and never looked back to the roads! She has since set up Northern Ireland’s dedicated recreational trail running community, TrailRunNI (TRNI), which has gone from strength to strength since its founding in February 2023. TRNI encourages all ages, genders, and abilities to explore trail running year-round to experience the physical and mental health benefits that running in nature provides. Many TRNI members have improved their running form and endurance on the trails with Jade and her leadership team’s guidance, and have gone on to compete and challenge their PBs in trail and fell running events, such as EcoTrail Wicklow, Hill and Dale Series, and Born2Run.