360º The Challenge Gran Canaria, live.
360º The Challenge is a solo, unmarked mountain journey around Gran Canaria, run over several days and nights by runners who navigate with a GPS track and a map. The 2026 edition, the eleventh, starts at 9:00 on Wednesday 4 November from the Plaza de Santiago in Gáldar and finishes in Tejeda, in the middle of the island, where the finish closes at 14:00 on Sunday 8 November.
Plaza de Santiago, Gáldar → Tejeda
- Distance
- 254 km
- Ascent
- +12,216 m
- High point
- 1,697 mMoriscos
- Life bases
- 4
- drop bag
- 4
- Stations
- 10
- Time limit
- ≤ 101 h
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The course
The whole race, as a ridgeline
● life base◆ drop bag▲ high point
360º The Challenge Gran Canaria 2026: 4 to 8 November
Everything a runner and the people following them need for the 2026 edition: when and where it starts, how the life bases work, what changed for the wind, and how to follow one person across the island.
Read from the organiser's own site, 360thechallenge.com (home, programme, rules, the challenge and race news), on 6 November 2026. Life base and checkpoint locations are from the official live tracking by Chronorace, linked from the organiser's home page. No date for 2027 is published yet.
When and where does it start?
Bibs and life base bags are handed out on Tuesday 3 November from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Centro Cultural Guaires in Gáldar, followed by the race briefing at 18:30. The start is at 9:00 on Wednesday 4 November from the Plaza de Santiago in Gáldar. The finish is in Tejeda and closes at 14:00 on Sunday 8 November, with the prize giving at 13:00 the same day. Times are Canary Islands time.
How long and how hard?
About 260 km and 13,000 metres of climbing in the organiser's general description, and 254 km with 12,216 metres of climbing for the 2026 route. The route is not marked. Runners follow the track the organisation supplies before the start, using GPS and maps, and the organiser expects them to master navigation, changing weather, fatigue, lack of sleep and eating on the move.
Life bases and checkpoints
Life bases offer food, drink, a rest area and charging, and they are the only places where outside help is allowed, with one companion per runner. Beds go in order of arrival. Time barriers apply at the life bases and anywhere else the organisation judges useful for safety, and a runner must leave a point before its closing time to carry on. Between the bases runners may stop at shops and restaurants at their own cost.
| Stop | Type |
|---|---|
| Gáldar, Plaza de Santiago | Start |
| Artenara | Aid point |
| Aserrador | Checkpoint |
| Cercados de Araña | Life base |
| Parque Sur | Life base |
| Santa Lucía | Life base |
| La Pasadilla | Checkpoint |
| Santa Brígida | Life base |
| Balcón de Zamora | Checkpoint |
| Tejeda | Finish |
The wind alert of 6 November
After the Canary Islands government issued a strong wind alert, the organiser changed the race for safety. From 20:00 on Friday 6 November the La Pasadilla checkpoint and the Santa Brígida life base became compulsory intermediate finishes. A runner reaching either point after that hour ends the race there. Runners who reached La Pasadilla before 20:00 could go on to Santa Brígida and finish there, and only those already past Santa Brígida by 20:00 could continue to the finish in Tejeda.
Who won in 2026?
106 runners started in Gáldar. José Bordón and Álvaro Santana, both from Gran Canaria, crossed the line in Tejeda together after 51 hours, 22 minutes and 22 seconds, sharing the win. Bordón also won in 2025. In the women's race the Swiss runner Anita Lehmann, the defending champion, took her second victory.
How do I enter?
Entry is an application. Runners fill in a form about their mountain experience, race history and motivation and pay the fee. The organisation has 25 days to judge each runner fit or not fit for the challenge and refunds the whole fee if the answer is no. Runners must be adults and upload a medical certificate signed by a doctor. In 2026 early entry ran from 29 April to 30 June.
How do I follow a runner?
Every runner carries the organisation's positioning beacon, and its positions feed the official online tracking. A Livebib broadcast is the runner's own phone, shared by link with the people they choose. It shows the position on the course line, the distance covered and the next life base, and gives the crew waiting at Santa Brígida a finish estimate that says it is an estimate when the phone has no signal.
Around Gran Canaria with no markers
360º The Challenge is a solo, unmarked mountain journey around Gran Canaria, run over several days and nights by runners who navigate with a GPS track and a map. The 2026 edition, the eleventh, starts at 9:00 on Wednesday 4 November from the Plaza de Santiago in Gáldar and finishes in Tejeda, in the middle of the island, where the finish closes at 14:00 on Sunday 8 November.
Arista Eventos, the organiser, gives the distance as about 260 km with roughly 13,000 metres of climbing and the same again in descent. For 2026 it put the route at 254 km and 12,216 metres of climbing. Nothing on the ground shows the way. The organisation hands each runner the track in the days before the start, and following it through ravines, stony ridges and village lanes is part of the race. The challenge was born in 2017 and the organiser calls it one of the most extreme events in trail running.
The race is run in semi self-sufficiency. Runners decide where to eat and when to sleep, and may buy food in any shop or bar that is open on the way, paid for themselves and without outside help. Along the route the organisation runs life bases with food, a rest area and a place to charge devices. Beds are limited and handed out in order of arrival. A bag the runner packed waits at each life base, and the life bases are the only places where outside assistance is allowed. In 2026 they stood at Cercados de Araña, Parque Sur, Santa Lucía and Santa Brígida, with timed checkpoints such as La Pasadilla in between.
Entry is by application. The organiser reviews each runner's mountain and navigation experience and accepts or declines within 25 days. Each runner carries a positioning beacon for the safety team. On Livebib a runner can also share one link from their own phone. Family and crew open it in a browser, with no account and no app, and see the position on the course line, the distance covered and the next life base, with a finish estimate that is marked as an estimate when the signal is lost in a deep barranco.
About 360º The Challenge Gran Canaria 2026
360º The Challenge Gran Canaria 2026 starts on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 09:00 AM in Gáldar, Gran Canaria.
360º The Challenge Gran Canaria: 254 km, 12,216 m of climbing, from Plaza de Santiago, Gáldar to Tejeda, time limit 101 h.
There are 10 stations on the course, 3 of them with a cutoff time.
Organiser: Arista Eventos.
Official website: 360thechallenge.com
The climbs
The climbs that decide the day
- 01
Moriscos
18.2 km+1,618 m8.9 %
crest at km 26.4
- 02
Pico de la Cogolla
13.1 km+621 m4.8 %
crest at km 127
- 03
Degollada de la Manzanilla
15.3 km+919 m6 %
crest at km 144.4
- 04
Pico del Mojón
12 km+1,197 m9.9 %
crest at km 183.8
- 05
El Peñón
7.5 km+792 m10.6 %
crest at km 234.3
The course
On the map
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Stations
Every station on the course. Life bases carry a barrier clock in race-local time.
Gáldar (Plaza de Santiago)
76.1 km to BV1 Cercados de Araña
0 km119 m
- Artenara33.91,244
- PC1 Aserrador62.11,325
BV1 Cercados de Araña
life basedrop bagcrew41.6 km to BV2 Parque Sur
76.1 km911 m
BV2 Parque Sur
life basedrop bagcrew40.5 km to BV3 Santa Lucía
117.8 km30 m
BV3 Santa Lucía
life basedrop bagcrew47.4 km to BV4 Santa Brígida
158.3 km785 m
- PC2 La Pasadilla177.2691Fri 08:00 PM
BV4 Santa Brígida
life basedrop bagcrew39.5 km to Tejeda
205.7 km497 mCloses Fri 08:00 PM
- PC3 Balcón de Zamora227.8913
- Tejeda245.21,039Sun 02:00 PM