MIUT 16

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 14.2km.
• Final 211m descent. Save your legs to go all out on it.
• Control your HR on the first climb, then run your race pace, and go all out on the final descent from 14.2km.
• 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–14.2km · 10.1km of runnable trail, high point 349m. Plus 1 more climb. Ease in: hold back more than feels necessary. The race is still ahead. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace. Running pays off here: run wherever you can.
• Home · 14.2km–15.7km · Descent of 211m averaging 14%. Build to the finish: leave whatever you have left out on the course.

Course

The course climbs 430m+ and descends 430m−. With 27m/km of climbing, this is a rolling, mostly runnable course. By gradient, 12% of the distance is uphill, 17% downhill and 71% flat. The longest climb runs 4.1km at an average 7.2% grade (295m of vertical). The longest descent runs 1.5km at an average 13.8% grade (211m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 19.2% over 0.8km. The steepest descent drops at 25.8% over 0.3km. Surface: 75% trail and 19% road. Flat-equivalent effort: 18.2 FlatKM.

Poles

Poles bring little benefit here: only about 1.4km of pole-friendly terrain.

Quad damage

There is too little runnable descent to damage the quads: plan the race around climbing and fuelling.

• Control your HR on the first climb, then run your race pace, and go all out on the final descent from 14.2km.

Results

444 finishers completed the 2025 edition. Men's winner: Andrea Rostan (Italy) in 1:01:16. Women's winner: Patricia Pineda Cornejo (Spain) in 1:10:43.