PANORAMIC TRAIL

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 Babina glava.
• Hold your race pace up to 16.7km, but stay in control.
• Ease into the early runnable section, then run your race pace, and go all out on the final descent from 16.7km.
• 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–7.2km · Climb of 227m, high point 1445m. 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.
• Work · 7.2km–16.7km · This is where the race is built: steady, solid effort. Running pays off here: run wherever you can.
• Home · 16.7km–20.6km · Descent of 230m averaging 6%. Build to the finish: leave whatever you have left out on the course.

Course

The course climbs 710m+. With 36m/km of climbing, this is a rolling, mostly runnable course. By gradient, 30% of the distance is uphill, 36% downhill and 34% flat. The longest climb runs 1.9km at an average 11.7% grade (227m of vertical). The longest descent runs 3.9km at an average 5.8% grade (230m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 17.1% over 1.0km. The steepest descent drops at 26.6% over 0.4km. Surface: 35% trail, 30% smooth, 26% technical, and 7% road. Flat-equivalent effort: 26.9 FlatKM.

Summits

The highest summit on the course is Babina glava (1474m), 7.1km from the start. Other named summits along the route: Koložunske grede (1427m). The course also passes close to Vjetreni Mlin (1372m).

Poles

Poles bring little benefit here: only about 1.0km of pole-friendly terrain.

Quad damage

Quad damage risk is low (index 9 of 100): a few descents worth noting, none of them decisive.

• Ease into the early runnable section, then run your race pace, and go all out on the final descent from 16.7km.

Weather

On race day, start temperatures have historically ranged from 10°C to 18°C, with around 14°C at the highest point; the chance of precipitation is about 31%. Heavy rain of 10.0mm or more falls on about 7% of days around this date.

Results

44 finishers completed the 2026 edition. Men's winner: Stevan Andrijevic (Montenegro) in 1:52:03. Women's winner: Jana Mitrovic (Montenegro) in 2:32:45.