Keurusselän Syyslenkki, live.

Montosvuori before lunch, Montosvuori again after it

A ski club’s autumn day at Resort Keurusselkä: a trail run in the morning, a mountain-bike race in the afternoon, and the same hill in the middle of both.

Keurusselän Syyslenkki was held on Saturday 3 October 2026 at Resort Keurusselkä in Keuruu, organised by the ski section of Keuruun Kisailijat. The day opens with a children’s run at 10:30. The trail run of 12.0 or 6.4 km goes off in one joint start at 11:00, and the mountain-bike race, new in 2026, starts at 13:30 over 9, 16.5 or 33 km. Entry includes the hotel spa, and a combined ticket covers both the run and the ride.

The ground is the forest around the resort and Montosvuori. Both disciplines start on gravel and wide path before narrowing into rooty, rocky trail, cross to the Keurusselkä sports park and then climb Montosvuori, where the organiser warns that wet rock can be surprisingly slippery. The long routes go on past the former Pioneer regiment barracks, out and back to Peurunniemi, and along the shore of Keurusselkä. The course is not closed to other users, and the run has only one self-service water point.

That makes this a race where the people at the hotel see almost nothing between start and finish. A runner or rider can share their own Livebib link: it opens in a browser with no account and no app, and shows the position on the course line, distance covered and a finish estimate that updates as they go. Estimates are marked as estimates, and if the phone loses signal under the trees the dot is carried forward along the course instead of freezing.