Green Course

Race strategy

Run the climb at race pace, build your speed on the downhill, and go all out at the finish.

• Start easy and control your HR up to Grlica.
• Final 673m descent. Save your legs to go all out on it.
• Control your HR on the first mountain, and go all out on the final descent from 8.1km.
• Start · 0.0km–2.0km · Race-day nerves push your heart rate up: don't follow the crowd, find your own rhythm.
• Settle in · 2.0km–8.1km · Climb of 676m, high point 676m. Ease in: hold back more than feels necessary. The race is still ahead. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace.
• Home · 8.1km–16.8km · Descent of 673m averaging 8%. Build to the finish: leave whatever you have left out on the course. Long descent: keep it even and let go only near the end.

Course

The course climbs 800m+ and descends 800m−. With 47m/km of climbing, this is a true mountain course with sustained climbs and descents. By gradient, 30% of the distance is uphill, 39% downhill and 31% flat. The longest climb runs 8.1km at an average 8.3% grade (676m of vertical). The longest descent runs 8.7km at an average 7.8% grade (673m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 38.9% over 0.3km. The steepest descent drops at 17.7% over 0.5km. Surface: 64% trail, 23% road, and 11% smooth. Flat-equivalent effort: 21.4 FlatKM.

Summits

The highest summit on the course is Grlica (661m), 7.8km from the start. The course also passes close to Čisti vrh (616m) and Kalac (382m).

Poles

Poles bring little benefit here: only about 1.8km of pole-friendly terrain.

Quad damage

Quad damage risk is low (index 11 of 100): a few descents worth noting, none of them decisive.

• Control your HR on the first mountain, and go all out on the final descent from 8.1km.
• 8.1–16.8 km · 673 m D−, -7.8% · 0.0 km ahead → even, let go at the end

Results

182 finishers completed the 2025 edition. Men's winner: Konstantin Serebrianitskii (Russia) in 1:17:28. Women's winner: Mirjana Radenovic (Montenegro) in 1:48:22.