Zegama-Aizkorri 2026

Get ready to enter the loudest arena on the planet trail, where even Roman gladiators would quickly ask for earplugs! 🏟️ Forget the peaceful silence of usual summits, we're taking you to experience a real human earthquake in the heart of the Spanish Basque Country 🌍. Welcome to the Zegama-Aizkorri race, an absolute monument of running where mud, rock, and sweat mix with the purest popular fervor 🌧️. It's the event that literally gives you chills from head to toe ⚡.

Head to the small town of Zegama, firmly nestled in the province of Guipuscoa in Spain 🇪🇸. Typically scheduled in mid-May, this great mountain gathering offers you three formats to taste the local legend 📅. The Mendi Maratoia takes you for 42.195 km with about 2,736 mD+ ⛰️. For athletes who love to explode their cardio right away, the famous Vertical Kilometer offers a timed uphill of 3 km to tackle 1,015 mD+ 📈. Finally, the young generation fully expresses itself on the Junior Trail, a 10.4 km track with 505 mD+ 🎒.

The terrain profile reveals a skillful blend of wild beauty and assumed technical brutality 🪨. First, you cross the sublime beech forests of the Aratz massif before attacking the merciless rocky slopes of the Aizkorri Sierra 🌲. The ascent to the summit of Aketegi, majestically perched at about 1,550 meters above sea level, will give you the curious impression of climbing the Mountain of Destiny in The Lord of the Rings 🌋. Almost half of the course is considered highly technical, requiring constant concentration 📉.

The DNA of this event relies above all on an incandescent atmosphere and an indescribable fervor 📣. Thousands of spectators crowd along the narrow paths, frequently braving rain and fog, to literally carry you to the peaks ☔. You get the striking impression of climbing a mythical pass of the Tour de France wearing your biggest cleats. Listed on the calendar of the very prestigious Golden Trail World Series, the event attracts the biggest international stars 🌟. Yet, the event remains a huge village celebration where each participant is welcomed as a local hero 🏆.

So, shall we arm ourselves with courage to face the Basque mud and cry with joy amidst a wild human tide? 🎒