VUM 25KM
Distance: 25,7km | Elevation gain 1,200m
Start time: 7:00, Saturday, 23-03-2024
Start & Finish location: Sân lửa trại bản Lác, Mai Chau – Google maps
COT: CP Bản Xô 14.7km at 14:00 – CP7 19.4km at 17:00 – Finish 25.7km at 20:00
Please note, the Cut Off Time (COT) is the time you must leave the checkpoint. If you leave after the COT, the timing system will automatically list you as DNF (Did Not Finish). Also, if you leave on time, but you go back to the checkpoint after the COT, you will be listed DNF.
Age Restriction: Open to experienced runners at least 18 years old on race day.
Finish Bag
01 bag/runner. Hand in/Pick up at the START/FINISH.
Please prepare your own bag. Bags must be sealed/closed. Do not include valuables – the organiser cannot be held responsible for any loss. BRING your luggage tag (given at the race pack collection), we will staple it for you.
IMPORTANT!
Distance: 25km | Elevation gain 1,100m
Race Start: 7:00, Saturday, 08-03-2025
Start & Finish location: Sân Cộng Đồng Bản Lác – Google maps
CUT-OFF TIMES (COT): 11:00 at CP1 (Nà Mo) – 13:30 at CP7 (Xóm Te) – 14:30 at CP1 (Nà Mo – second pass) – 18:00 at FINISH
Age restriction: Entrants must be at least 18 years old on the race date.
Course description
With a new, even more beautiful course for 2025, the Vietnam Ultra Marathon 25km takes the best of 2024 and adds in more good trail and majestic views. It starts and finishes in the heart of Mai Chau, offering a diverse route with a high percentage of trail. This route is easier than the 2024 route, with less prolonged steep climbing, but with more than 1000m of up, it still packs some challenge!
After a fast, flat start, past villages and rice paddies, the first trail section follows the same course as the ultra routes. You will climb up beautiful single tracks through forests of trees and bamboos. At the top of the first climb, you will come into a clearing with breathtaking views of the surrounding terrain.
After continuing up, you will hit a section including some more runnable trails among some beautiful bamboo forest.
Following your next checkpoint, a short, runnable backroad stretch brings you to even more single track, this time traversing the hillside on an easy downhill gradient. You will then take on a long descent through jungle to the valley floor.
At the next checkpoint, you will meet up with the ultra runners for another stunning single track section. This part is uphill, but the gradients are not too steep and the climbing is interspersed with some easier parts. Here you will be rewarded with ever more stunning views of forested mountains and rice terraced valleys.
Following your final checkpoint, the last section is full of trail variety and brings you down to the quintessential scenic beauty of the main Mai Chau valley. Here we will have a finish line in the heart of the community, with music, fire, food and the good trail vibes our races are famous for.
We look forward to welcoming you to Vietnam Ultra Marathon on The Trails of Mai Chau.
Please read the Finish Area information here.
MANDATORY EQUIPMENT
Top 3 VUM Runners will have mandatory kit inspections.
Other kit inspections are carried out at random, including at the start line.
Lack of mandatory kit will result in disqualification (DSQ) or time penalty.
Refusal of kit check = DSQ
Please note we disqualified runners at every event in the past year for lacking kit. Be prepared and carry what you need.
- Details to Run Only Program
- Details to 3-day Inclusive Package Program
VUM 25km is a 1-point qualifying race for ITRA, an ITRA National League race, and a 20K UTMB Index race.
