Quindio Trail Colombia on Hold

UTMB is pulling the plug, temporarily in their Quindio Trail Colombia which was meant to happen in May of 2025. Here’s the message posted to Instagram by race director Mauricio Quintero (auto-translated):

We have decided to reschedule the open enrollment and the 2025. From transparency and commitment, we work to meet the high UTMB®️ standards you deserve. New dates to be announced soon.

In the video message Mauricio mentions broad structural, technical and safety issues, but doesn’t go into specifics. This message was posted back on December 12th. It’s now the end of January, just four month until the official race date and the website still doesn’t show any changes to either the race date or the registration being reopened.

Of course this is a huge bummer for folks who already had their entry and potentially flights booked, but maybe it’s better UTMB pulls the plug on this now rather than delivering a compromised event. But in any case this shows that this World Series expansion is a lot harder and this absolutely doesn’t turn into a giant monopoly rolling over everyone. There have almost been as many issues with new events over the past 18 month as new events been added to the Series.