FUNNY 10K

Race strategy

Short race: go all out.

• Hold your race pace up to 5.1km, but stay in control.
• Control your HR on the first mountain, and go all out on the final descent from 5.1km.
• Start · 0.0km–2.1km · Race-day nerves push your heart rate up: don't follow the crowd, find your own rhythm.
• Work · 2.1km–5.1km · Climb of 223m, high point 1011m. This is where the race is built: steady, solid effort. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace.
• Home · 5.1km–11.1km · Descent of 251m averaging 4%. Kick for the line: give it everything you've got.

Course

The course climbs 300m+. With 30m/km of climbing, this is a rolling, mostly runnable course. By gradient, 30% of the distance is uphill, 24% downhill and 46% flat. The longest climb runs 5.1km at an average 4.4% grade (223m of vertical). The longest descent runs 6.0km at an average 4.1% grade (251m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 7.9% over 1.0km. The steepest descent drops at 17.1% over 0.3km. Surface: 56% trail and 44% road. Flat-equivalent effort: 11.7 FlatKM.

Poles

The course is runnable enough that trekking poles are not needed.

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 mountain, and go all out on the final descent from 5.1km.
• 5.1–11.1 km · 251 m D−, -4.2% · 0.0 km ahead → free

Weather

On race day, start temperatures have historically ranged from 9°C to 18°C, with around 13°C at the highest point; the chance of precipitation is about 42%.

Results

404 finishers completed the 2025 edition. Men's winner: Tomaž Oblak (Slovenia) in 43:43. Women's winner: Tatjana Samoilova (Latvia) in 50:59.