Penyagolosa Trails

Penyagolosa Trails follows the old pilgrimage route from Castelló de la Plana, on the Mediterranean coast, inland and upward to the sanctuary of Sant Joan de Penyagolosa. Both of its races start at sea level on the athletics track of the Universitat Jaume I and finish at the sanctuary. The CSP, for Castelló-Penyagolosa, covers 106 km with 5,600 m of climbing and starts at midnight; the MiM, for Marató i Mitja, covers 60 km with 3,300 m and starts at six in the morning. The MiM has been run since 1999 and the CSP since 2013, and the event was a Trail World Championships venue in 2018.

The 2027 edition is set for 24 April, which the organiser chose because it is the day and month the first MiM was run. Entry is a free pre-registration followed by a bib draw, held only if applications exceed the places by a fifth, with 600 places on the CSP and 1,500 on the MiM. A CSP finish under 26 hours qualified for the 2027 Western States 100 lottery. The event is titled FUGA Penyagolosa Trails for its sponsor, Kailas FUGA, and was called ASICS Penyagolosa Trails before that.

Both races run the pilgrimage route inland from the coast at Castelló de la Plana to the sanctuary of Sant Joan de Penyagolosa, starting at sea level on the athletics track of the Universitat Jaume I. The CSP covers 106 km with 5,600 m of climbing and 4,400 m of descent on a 25-hour-30-minute limit, starting at midnight; the MiM covers 60 km with 3,300 m and 2,000 m on a 15-hour limit, starting at 6:00 a.m. The organiser publishes a control table for each race giving both the elapsed cut-off and the clock time at every checkpoint. Its own tables measure the courses slightly longer and steeper than its headline figures, at 106.1 km and 5,584 m for the CSP and 60 km and 3,356 m for the MiM.

Entry is a free pre-registration followed by a draw: the organiser states that a draw is held in each distance only if pre-registrations exceed the available places by 20 percent, and that otherwise every pre-registration becomes an entry. It draws 600 places on the CSP and 1,500 on the MiM, and a runner may enter only one of the two draws. Several routes skip the draw altogether, for loyalty (13 finishes across both races for the MiM, six CSP finishes for the CSP), for a time standard in the last two editions, for a previous podium, and for a limited quota on ITRA and UTMB ranking points. There is no waiting list. The CSP also requires a medical report of no contraindication for ultra-endurance sport, uploaded before 1 March or the entry is cancelled.