July 01

EHUNMILAK 2022 (8-10JUL): THE BASQUE 100 MILES

Posted by Héctor Rubio on July 1, 2022 in ehunmilak, trail running spain, Ultra Trail | Leave a comment

EHUNMILAK 2022 (8-10JUL): THE BASQUE 100 MILES. Our TRAIL RUNNING CALENDAR 2022 bring us today the pre-race of the Ehunmilak 2022 and its 3 trail runing races in the Basque country.

Its three major mountain races will be held from July 8 to 10: Ehunmilak-168km; Goierrio bi Haundiak-88km and Marimurumendi-42km. Good time today, a week away to remember the last edition of Ehunmilak, from the inside (partially in Spanish).

EHUNMILAK 2022 (8-10JUL): THE BASQUE 100 MILES

On July 8, 9 and 10, 2022, the 11th edition of the ehunmilak will be held. The organizing committee has presented today, at the Igarza Palace in Beasaín, the last details of the organization of the 3 races of the ehunmilak project.

The hundred Basque miles are now eleven years old, with a renewed enthusiasm. Ehunmilak lived an apotheosic 2019, exhausting numbers in all its modalities. In sports, a cascade of record in almost all races. Here you can review how we lived it then. what memories…

A success, popular and sporting that generated a strong growth of its media and sports projection at an international level, bringing the peculiar way of living mountain races in the Highlands of the Basque Country to the whole world.
After two very hard years for everyone, it’s time to run together again throughout the Goierri.

The departure of Beasaín awaits us, with a square to overflow and goosebumps after the aurresku, the human corridor of Larraitz in the middle of the night, the txalaparta in the Txindoki…. And above all, those 1,600 volunteers and that public that will never, ever let you run alone in these mountains.

Photo: Ehunmilak 2019

EHUNMILAK 2022: HIGHLIGHTS

199% Bibs achieved: in total they have 1,295 registered distributed in this way: the “ehunmilak” Ultra-Trail® 515 registered (26 women and 9 teams in the team modality), “goierriko bi haundiak” trail (41 women) and the “marimurumendi” marathon (49 women).
600 volunteers for 1295 runners : To attend and pamper as it is due to all the runners this year we will have more than 1,600 volunteers distributed throughout the route. A ratio of almost one and a half volunteers per runner, something unique in the world.
New stuff in the race mandatory kit: it will be necessary to wear a waterproof jacket with hood and red back light.
Reduction of plastic use: there will be no plastic cups in the refreshment stations (each runner must carry their container), 5-liter drums instead of 1.5-liter bottles and each with its own tap, the containers and cutlery of the refreshment stations will be biodegradable.
Red Cross Team (more than 160 people), there will be 22 emergency doctors working with their enfermer@ so that everything goes well.
Physiotherapy and podiatry service in the largest refreshment stations (Tolosa and Etzegarate).

EHUNMILAK 2022: THE RACES

The hundred Basque miles have maintained, since their birth, a spirit of their own that makes them unique, absolutely focused on each popular corridor as the protagonist of a party throughout the Goierri.

Thus, it is the only mountain race in the world where each registrant receives in his own home an extensive guide of the runner on paper, where the pre-race meal is served in a palace of the SXVII, with crockery and cutlery, with each corridor geopositioned instantly, with six bus lines so that family and friends can follow each runner, with up to 1,600 volunteers to care for 1,300 enrollees. And above all, with the passion of an audience with which you will never run alone.

Important to mention is the fact that the Ehunmilak Ultra Trails is a qualifier race for the Hardrock 100.