The Swiss Alps 100 Backyard Ultra

The team behind the Swiss Alps 100 adds the popular Backyard Ultra format to their already massively busy race weekend. Their deceptively hard, yet beautiful 100 miler put this event on the map, but the team continues to innovate offering shorter distances and even a hike and fly event, an event which is like a small RedBull XAlps. Events like the Swiss Alps 100 proof that there’s lots of space in our trail running sport for race directors to innovate and create unique races that don’t fit the generic mold we’ve come to expect from the races most of the media tends to cover. More of it, please.