Oman to Host Prestigious and Challenging International Trail Running Event

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Oman to Host Prestigious and Challenging International Trail Running Event

Oman is to be the place for one of the world's most severe sporting challenges when it hosts a costs long-distance trail running occasion in November this year. The inaugural OMAN by UTMB event will see a global area of 300 runners handle a continuous rugged 137km - 85mile - program over the varied and mountainous surface of Oman's Jebel Akhdar. It will be hosted by Oman Sail, sustained by Tanfeedh, the Ministry of Tourism, UTMB International and the organisers of UTMB Mont-Blanc.

UTMB Mont-Blanc was created in 2003 in Chamonix, France, and has quickly grown to end up being the Worlds Summit of Trail Running. The event is based on a very simple concept: a main start line in the European hub of outdoor sports, a race around the Mont-Blanc Massif, going across three nations (France, Italy and Switzerland) and a surface in Chamonix after 170km and 10,000 metres of vertical gain. In the last few years, the organisers have produced 5 other ranges (40, 55, 100, 120 and 300km), with all races now being arranged throughout the exact same week. The UTMB Mont-Blanc's account has ended up being global, with 100 different races amongst the 10,000 participants.

The inaugural OMAN by UTMB on 29 November 2018 will take 300 privileged rivals on a remote route that will consist of some of the most significant and differed landscapes Arabia has to offer.

Through villages, palm plantations, deep wadis, narrow chasms and along hill top ridges, the route takes a trip with the elevations of Jebel Akhdar, the Green Mountain, coming to a head at over 2,200 m. With a length of 137km and a vertical gain of over 7,800 m this is a training course loaded with variety and challenge. The climbs up are long and at times very technical and temperatures will vary significantly from 25C throughout the day in the valleys to around 10C in the mountains, where a lot of the training course is run. With the fastest competitors expected to finish in around 20 hours, OMAN by UTMB is designed as a unique journey for joggers that highlights Oman's natural beauty.

In addition to the adventure, running OMAN by UTMB carries a number of benefits for those wishing to enter the lottery to run UTMB Mont-Blanc: every finisher gains the maximum number of qualifying points (6) valid for 3 years (instead of the usual two) and every finisher saves one year in the UTMB Mont-Blanc registration process. So, for the 2019 edition, each OMAN by UTMB finisher doubles their chance in the entry lottery, if registering for the first time, or gains entry, if registering for the second time having been unsuccessful in 2018.

" We are delighted to be bringing such a prestigious and well-established to the Sultanate of Oman and we are anticipating welcoming an area of international joggers to this beautiful country," said Oman Sail Chief Executive Officer, David Graham.

" Oman has immense potential to be a leading trail running destination and we have been functioning very closely with the UTMB group to establish the most effective means to showcase the nation and provide individuals with an experience where they will get a taste of authentic Arabia and take part in an amazing challenge," he included.

Over the previous Ten Years Oman Sail has aided put the nation on the global sporting map with a series of extremely effective events consisting of the rapidly growing Al Mouj Muscat Marathon, the Trans Hajar mountain bicycle race, the Louis Vuitton The U.S.A.'s Cup World Collection, and the award-winning Extreme Cruising Collection, which recently held its opening event of the 2018 period in Muscat.

Oman's diverse landscapes, welcoming culture and ideal winter temperatures make it a progressively preferred sports tourism destination with expanding international appeal.

" The UTMB brand means a lot more compared to a simple race. All occasions sustained by UTMB are organised with the highest quality criteria, using a tough course in the hills and a remarkable adventure in a legendary destination," said Catherine Poletti UTMB Mont-Blanc Director.

" OMAN by UTMB will certainly be a discovery for runners in a completely new atmosphere, and I have no doubt that the trip will certainly be enthusiastically understood and appreciated by all who involve Oman to run or to support the runners."

OMAN by UTMB is a Tanfeedh initiative and is sustained by the Ministry of Tourism. For more details, please go to: www.omanbyutmb.com