TALIHARJA VANAKURI winter ultra endurance race 2024

TALIHARJA VANAKURI is a 52/101/126 km winter ultra endurance race mostly in darkness through south Estonia’s forests & bogs that runs on snowy/icy/muddy small roads & rough trails. Main race course is a linear long journey and is partly marked. Route runs mostly on marked hiking trails, but sections of it are not marked and participants must navigate the course themselves with GPS device or map. Race can be done either on foot, on skis or by bike. Sun sets around 4PM and light fades about 5PM so a big portion of the race course will be completed in darkness! Race course can be relatively easy (road) or extremely tough at times – this means there can be narrow overgrown tracks, abundance of fallen trees, muddy forest machine tracks, wet swamp, ditches or no trail at all. This course will definitely challenge all participants and will feel really uncomfortable at times. The concept of the race is, that course is in it’s natural condition and must be tackled as it is, as nature has left it at race day/night. This can mean thick snow or deep overflowing river crossings etc or be very easy without any hindrance.