My name is Ben, one of the two lead guides for Go! Running Tours Cologne, alongside Javi.
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.
Ben have been running for over twenty years and has spent much of that time embedded in Cologne's running community, leading running stores and teams across the city and the surrounding region. A proud adopted Kölner, I bring deep local knowledge, a wide network, and the kind of passion for the Kölsche Jeföhl that you cannot fake, you either feel it or you don't, and I very much feel it.
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.