← Transgrancanaria

The 128 race started at night time with bus transfers to the start from the finish. An hr before I went to sleep in prep for the race I received an email saying bus time was changed and now earlier. Having ran here last year I know the race info was limited. All info is in the race instructions on the website, very few emails are sent out. Registration is in the expo centre in town and is very organised. The race starts at night and the navigation marks were not highlighted so difficult to see easily. The terrain is very technical. The checkpoints are well stocked but not all have toilets . Having become injured I was with the tail runner and a lady from Netherlands. He was too close to us and his radio was continuously going off, the other runner and I became frustrated by thing especially when we needed a toilet visit in the bushes . He also didn’t speak or understand English. We both decided to DNF at the next checkpoint as we were getting further away from having a comfortable time to play with to meet the next checkpoint. The tail runner was very sweet and keep hugging us . The crew organised a bus to collect runners but didn’t tell us that the bus would go to every checkpoint on route. This meant we spent 4 hrs on a bus up the mountains. We had bags at the half way point which needed to be collected the next day after that checkpoint had closed. This was easily collected the next day . Despite not completing it is a great race with different distances to choose from making it accessible to anyone