Why I'm building caucasus.run
I moved to Georgia in November 2025. Pretty quickly I realized I wanted to run here — the mountains are close by, winters aren't cold, and Lisi Lake is just twenty minutes from the city center.
Then the questions started. Where do people run? With whom? What races are out there and when? Is there anything closer than a marathon in Istanbul?
The answers were out there, but scattered in a strange way. Something in one chat. Something in a post from three years ago, half the links dead by now. Some things I had to ask people directly: "hey, do you know when the next one is?" The information existed, but it was fragmented into little pieces, and every new person had to piece it together from scratch — asking the same questions, of the same people.
That's the reason caucasus.run exists.
What this project is
The idea is simple: let there be one place where this information accumulates. Not a chat where everything sinks after a week. Not a post that goes stale. A resource you can actually come back to.
A calendar of races — Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey. Marathons, half marathons, trail runs, parkruns, ultras. Running club pages. Calculators. A blog. Links to anything that might come in handy.
Right now the site doesn't have much running yet — it's still laying the foundation. Multiple languages (Russian, English, Georgian), the structure of sections, and soon an Android app. The race catalog is being filled in gradually.
That's the honest state of things: this project is just getting started.
One important thing
I won't be able to gather all of this on my own. There are a lot of races in the Caucasus, and many of them are small local starts that only the people nearby know about. That's exactly how the running community works: someone knows about one race, someone else knows about another.
So the site will grow with the help of the very same people I used to ask in chats. If you know about a race that isn't here yet — tell me.
Not just running
I started with running because that's what I do myself. But other things will gradually show up too: cycling, swimming, rollerblading, triathlon, padel, tennis, gyms, yoga.
The logic is the same. Someone who's just moved and wants to stay active runs into the exact same problem — the information simply isn't in one place.
Where to find me
I run at Lisi Lake with the Lake Run Tbilisi club — every Saturday, 5 km, free. If you're in Tbilisi and wondering where to start, this is a good entry point. Come join us.
And here's a video from one of the parkruns — just so you get a sense of what it looks like:
This project is being built between runs, in whatever free time there is. Slowly, but surely.