TOR130 Tot Dret

The TOR130 Tot Dret runs 130 kilometers west across the Aosta Valley, from Gressoney-Saint-Jean to the finish all TORX races share at Courmayeur, climbing 12,000 meters on the way. It goes at nine in the evening, so the field is on the high cols through the first night, and the slowest runners are out for a second one.

It is the shorter sibling of the Tor des Géants, run in the same week and over the same kind of ground, with Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc in view along the way. Finishing it earns a place in the TORX eXperience, the standing the organiser requires to enter the 330, and it counts as a Western States 100 qualifier for finishers under 44 hours.

Gressoney-Saint-Jean to Courmayeur, 130 kilometers and 12,000 meters of climbing, with 44 hours to do it. The organiser sets its intermediate barriers off an average of 3.02 km/h for the slowest passages. Its own timing platform measures the mapped course at 135.8 kilometers and 10,902 meters; the race publishes 130 and 12,000, and those are the figures here.

Registration opens on March 1 and runs to March 15 for 500 places, or until they are gone, through the TORX eXperience site. Finishing reserves one of 100 bibs for the following year's Tor des Géants, whatever position you come in.