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!

RACE RULES

SAFETY INFO

Distance: 24.3km | Elevation gain 800m

Race Start: 7:00, Saturday, 2026 race date: to be announced

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.

FINISH BAG

Handing in your bag: 01 bag/01 runner at the START LINE

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.

Picking up your bag after the race: at the FINISH

Note: no individual requests for bag transfers can be facilitated. ALL bags are moved together.

AGE GROUP AWARDS

Age categories are:

5km: Under 12;12-17; 18-39; 40+
15km/25km/55km/75km: Under 30; 30-39; 40-49; 50-59; 60-69; 70+

The overall top 3 are excluded from the age group awards.

When you finish, you can check your age group ranking on results page.

Top 3 male/female runners can collect their trophies at a special Age Group Trophy Collection booth at the finish area: Sân Cộng Đồng Bản Lác (Saturday). We cannot ship trophies to those who do not come and collect them during this time slot.

Age group runners receive trophies only.

Course description

Enjoy a springtime run on March 8th! 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).

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.