Tenerife Bluetrail Struggles with Weather, Elites Pivot to Chianti

Not the first year that Tenerife Bluetrail has had weather issues. The event was previous held in the fall. UTMB’s new spring date on the Canary island off the coast of Western Africa proves to be challenging for the race organizers. Last year the VK got cancelled due to weather, this year there’s a weather advisory shared on Instagram. Several high profile athletes (Courtney Dauwalter and Andreas Reiterer) who were due to race the Tenerife Bluetrail 110K have since pivoted and are now on the start list of Chianti 120K as Travis Loncar is reporting on Freetrail’s Trail Ticker.

If this holds true then UTMB is showing some great flexibility in allowing elite athletes to get into sold out races and make last minute changes. Further it would mean that Courtney Dauwalter could get a Golden Ticket into Western States.

If this doesn’t hold true, it shows again that the UTMB start lists need some quality control.