My name is Javi, one of the two lead guides for Go! Running Tours Cologne, alongside Ben.
We love running, we love Cologne, and we share the same conviction: the best way to fall in love with a city is to run through it before breakfast.
I grew up close to Cologne and has called the city home since 2020. My passion for running started as a teenager and never really stopped. I first experienced a Go! Running Tour with founder Lena in 2018 and decided on the spot that Cologne needed one. It took a few years and a relocation, but here we are.
Cologne is our adopted home, and we are in love with it. Not in a polished, postcard way, but in the way you love something that is warm, unpretentious, and completely comfortable in its own skin. That is Cologne.
What we share is a belief that a running tour should leave you knowing a city differently: not just having seen it, but having moved through it, at pace, in the early morning, when it is still honest.
Our tours start early because that is when Cologne is at its best: still quiet, the Rhine catching the first light, the Cathedral almost entirely yours. No crowds. Just the city and the run.