Asonauts on the Road
5K to marathon
From your first 5K to a fast marathon, train with purpose and race as a team.
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Choose your NorthPhoto 1 of 3: Standing warm-up
Choose your North
Asonauts in the Rockies
Two summer ultras
Two ultra trail runs through the best of the Canadian Rockies: beneath the Matterhorn of the Rockies (Assiniboine), and along a 900-metre wall of limestone (Rockwall).
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Routine and first 5K
A routine that holds when life doesn’t. Start from zero and reach your first 5K.
See how it worksNutrition, for every path
Add a nutrition plan to any of the three, built alongside your training.
5K to marathon
Asonauts on the Road
Eight start lines, two provinces, one team. Pick your distance and arrive ready.
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Two summer ultras
Asonauts in the Rockies
Every July the team leaves the road for the Canadian Rockies. Two point-to-point traverses, two weeks apart, each a full day in the high country.
The Assiniboine
Saturday, July 3, 2027
Mount Assiniboine is known as the Matterhorn of the Rockies. The route leaves Sunshine Village over Citadel Pass, crosses to Lake Magog at the mountain’s feet, climbs Wonder Pass and descends past Marvel Lake to the Mount Shark trailhead.
Diyako scouted it solo in July 2026. The map is his run.
62 kmdistance
2,100 melevation gain
The Rockwall
Saturday, July 17, 2027
In Kootenay National Park, a limestone wall rises up to 900 metres above the trail for most of its length. The traverse leaves the glacier-fed basin of Floe Lake, crosses Numa, Tumbling and Rockwall passes, drops past Helmet Falls, one of the tallest waterfalls in Canada, and finishes at the ochre springs of the Paint Pots.
60 kmdistance
3,300 melevation gain
Routine and first 5K
Asonauts for Life
Some goals don’t have a start line. A clearer head, a steadier week, the first time you run without stopping.
Routine and first 5K
Start from wherever you are and build a week you can keep.
- Runs planned around your real schedule
- A minimum week that still counts when life gets busy
- Your first continuous 5K as the first milestone
Fitness
Run-walk training to get fitter and healthier.
- Run-walk intervals that grow with you
- A nutrition plan, if you want one
- A clear path to your first 5K
Diyako Ghaffari
Before Aso North was a brand, it was a way through. Migration, exclusion and uncertainty can unsettle the rhythms that make a life feel like your own. From Kurdistan to Tehran and on to Canada, running is how Diyako found those rhythms again.
In Kurdish, Aso means horizon. It was also the name of the running community he led in Tehran, where he helped people build belief in themselves, mentally and physically. North is the star you steer by. Aso North carries that into Canada: a place where movement helps people rediscover what they are capable of, and where showing up together grows into friendship, belonging and home.
Diyako is a distance runner and running coach. He is pursuing a PhD in biomechanics at Western University, researching tibial stress fractures in distance runners.