Tahura Trail in Bandung returns after five years!
It has been five long years but - at last - the very popular Indonesian event Tahura Trail in Bandung is returning to the trail and Asia Trail Master Championship calendar. The 10th anniversary edition is scheduled for 25 January 2025 with a brand new course of 40km for Championship points, along a wide range of shorter distances for the less ambitious. Before covid struck, Tahura Trail was by numbers the most popular trail event in Indonesia and the traditional opener of the ATM season. It’s one of the shortest points races on the calendar, but it has always been an exciting one to follow with loads of fast runners taking part.
Our reigning ATM Champion, Jeff Campbell, has won it twice already, in fact. Including the last edition in 2020. Other winners in Tahura’s rich history are Tahira Najmunisaa, Kim Matthews, Mohamed Affindi, Asuka Nakajima and Charlotte Taquet.
The 40km course has nearly 1300m of elevation gain and is a great mixture of runable and technical sections. When it’s dry it’s fast, when it’s been raining it’s muddy and tougher than one would expect. It is the training ground for many of Bandung’s well-known trail runners, not in the least our former ATM Champions Ruth Theresia and Arief Wismoyono.
Tahura is the name of the large park next to the city of Bandung in West Java. It’s also a place for weekend retreats with lots of nice restaurants and coffee & teahouses. There is an airport in Bandung with a few international flights, but nowadays the journey from Jakarta to Bandung has also become much faster thanks to a high-speed train.
Registration has opened already , please go to the official website of Tahura Trail.
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