After the success of last year’s edition, we are happy to announce that The Manjushree Trail Race in Kathmandu is keeping its place on the Asia Trail Master Championship calendar in 2025. Next year, the 4th edition of the event will take place a little earlier, from 14 to 16 March, and will again feature two categories offering championship points, the 100 Miles and the 50km. Runners focusing on the Grandmaster Quest can of course consider the 100km category along with the 100 Miles.

The longest distance of the event takes runners on the Kathmandu Valley Rim, which is named after the god Manjushree. As the official website says: ‘The race route takes runners along the famous Kathmandu valley rim ridge line and across the seven peaks that surround the valley. As part of this, the racecourse also crosses the two national park (Nagarjun and Shivapuri) that border the valley. Over 85% of the route is single track, where it sometimes takes hours before runners come across a little settlement. Even though you are technically still within the Kathmandu valley, you will feel like you are far away from urbanization many times during the race.’ Looking at the course map, you see one big natural loop that measures 175 kilometres (so it’s actually longer than 100 miles). The names of the seven peaks are Jamacho, Shivapuri, Nagarkot, Pulchowki, Champadevi, Basmandur and Chandragiri. It’s a clean oval loop, but with a total elevation gain of over 12000hm, this is a race runners need to be physically and mentally prepared for. The race starts on Friday early morning and the cut-off time at the finish will be reached after 52 hours.

The 50 km race will start from Badikhel, above Godavari, and join the trail of the 100 miles and 100km. Participants will go to the start venue by shuttle bus from Kathmandu city in the morning to take flag off at 7am.

In the 2024 edition we discovered several of the talented local Nepali who later managed to qualify for the ATM Championship Final at Borneo TMBT last September. Our now ATM Female Champion Priya Rai won the 50km race ahead of Rashila Tamang and Chhoki Sherpa. Arjun Rai Kulung won the 100 miles for men, Nirmala Rai for women.

International runners can stay in Kathmandu City, as the event venue is not far away and reachable by shuttle.

Registration for The Manjushree Trail Race is already open via the official website linked below.

official website mtr