This Race Weekend: Tarawera Ultra-Trail and XTERRA South Africa

This weekend (February 17-18, 2024) the UTMB World Series kicks off their 2024 race calendar with their Tarawera Ultra-Trail events in Rotorua on the North Island of New Zealand. For super spontaneous folks, as of today you can still sign up for any of their race distances. According to the starting list there are 116 runners from the United States and 25 from Germany competing.

Also on deck for the same weekend, the XTERRA South Africa Half Marathon in Elgin Valley, Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa.

• A list of all UTMB events can be found here.
• And the newly added XTERRA Trail Run World Series calendar is here.

Find more trail races on ECC’s Global Race Series Calendar.