Burning River Running Company is an international adventure tour service from husband-and-wife duo, Joe and Melanie Baur.
Imagine running with your local run club, but you’re trotting along the rugged Irish coast or snapping finish line selfies in front of Brandenburg Gate. That’s what we do. We bring together like-minded, culturally curious runners for once-in-a-lifetime running experiences around the globe.
Click here to learn more about the tours we’re currently offering.
Why Us?
We’ve been running together since we started training for Melanie’s first half marathon in 2012, the Cleveland Rock & Roll Half Marathon.
Since then, we’ve run in races and self-planned adventures from Costa Rica to Laos. And despite the various niggles, legit injuries, bumps, cuts, and scrapes we’ve gathered over the years, we’ve only fallen harder in love with running.
In 2016, we moved to Germany. Access to the long-distance trails along the Rhine River fueled a newfound love (passion? obsession?) for trail running. Whether it was a weekend getaway to the Malerweg (Painter’s Way) in Saxon Switzerland National Park or an ultramarathon in Alsace, we’ve traveled across the European continent constantly in search of new adventures that both challenge us all the while reveal something unique about the local culture that you just can’t get checking off a list of tourist attractions.
Even when we’re not traveling, we’re still running. In 2021, we took on the legendary Berlin Marathon after years of saying we’d never run a marathon. A whopping 26 miles of road… How insufferably boring, right?
Wrong. We loved every excruciating minute of it and proceeded to run again in 2023 and 2024.
During these years, Joe started writing about trail running culture in different countries and was able to join stage races in Oman and Nepal. That’s where he got a taste of what runners are looking for when they travel –– a like-minded group of instant friends who can’t think of a better way to spend their time off than with a little Type 2 fun.
And that’s why you want to travel with us. We are your local running club on tour, gallivanting across the globe to push ourselves and learn from these experiences we’re so very privileged to have.
Ready to run? Check out the tours we’re currently offering here or contact us for a custom itinerary.