Estonia Ultra-Trail Race

In the glorious northern pockets of Europe, lies the country of Estonia bordering the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Finland, Latvia and Russia. With centuries of change, it’s a place where Baltic meets Nordic, but it’s also where an extraordinary trail race happens that celebrates all of its entrants. 

The Estonia Ultra-Trail Race is held in Narva, the country’s third largest city, and a municipality that was almost completely destroyed in 1944 during WWII. 

The event has three distances to choose from – 126km, 63km and 33km, and is a race that takes participants to new heights of their running journeys. The landscape is unforgiving – waist-high waters to trudge through, grass as tall as a human to push through; a jungle that you’ve never seen before, at your beckoning…harsh, but if you can push through it, you can do anything. 

Besides the incredible landscape, there are a few things that make the Estonia Ultra-Trail Race even more unique. The first, is that the 126km winner is given the right to choose any photograph from their race to turn it into the design of next year’s buckle-trophy. Second, each female athlete, regardless if they finish or not, is awarded a trophy and a bouquet of flowers. 

Lastly, would you believe, an international postage stamp is created and sold throughout the country with the winner of the event?! Picture this. Your finish line photo, available from the post office, and sent across the world, on a stamp!

The Estonia Ultra-Trail Race is a course planned so that when athletes run along the jungle, they dream of the coast…and when they run along the coast, they dream of the jungle. The levels of amazing are endless with this race, with this beautiful part of the globe.

Are you ready to put this one on your bucket list?!

Info: eut.trailrunning.ee