One last hurrah before the end of the year. Runners, get ready for a fun and festive holiday 10K trail race at Squaxin Park in Olympia, WA on December 14.

One last hurrah before the end of the year. Runners, get ready for a fun and festive holiday 10K trail races at Squaxin Park in Olympia, WA on December 14.

Transvulcania and Mount Yun

19 September 2023

Two interesting developments on the UTMB race calendar for 2024:

  • Mount Yun the newly announced UTMB race in China received a 2023 race date with just a few days before the actual event. The UTMB website initially listed a 2024 date but all of a sudden a 2023 date appeared: Oct 20-23, which is already next month… so it seems the races had been advertised and the event had been operational, but the partnership with UTMB wasn’t 100% a sure thing for 2023 and they were about to pull it together last minute.
  • Transvulcania, the popular race with a long history pre-UTMB on the islands of La Palma off the coast of Spain is one of the few events where still no date for 2024 is announced. The other events are: Amazean Jungle in Thailand, Ultra-Trail Ninghai in China and Restonica Trail in France. I don’t know much about these other races but Transvulcania clearly has a long history and the 2024 date should’ve been announced by now. But what has happened instead is that the race has now completely disappeared of the UTMB map and calendar. I still have the event listed on the ECC UTMB calendar because the domain is still active but I am very curious if this is just a ‘glitch’ on the website of if there’s something else going on.
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