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Mountain racing on the Turaco Trail

SkyRun Zimbabwe is a single track mountain trail running event on the Turaco Trail in Nyanga National Park, in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands.

SkyRun Zimbabwe is a mountain trail running event on the Turaco Trail, which runs through protected wilderness in Nyanga National Park in the Eastern Highlands. Far and Wide Zimbabwe built the trail in 2008 and opened it to its first sky running event in 2015. The organiser calls SkyRun Zim Zimbabwe's first ultra mountain race. The trail opens for one day a year for the race, under a special permit from National Parks.

The organiser describes the course as single track all the way, across escarpments, indigenous forest, waterfalls and technical mountain ground. Routes pass the Mutarazi Falls and the SkyWalk suspension bridge, Ringing Rock and the Pungwe Gorge, and several go over Mt Nyangani, Zimbabwe's highest mountain at 2,593m. Most races start at the Far and Wide Mountain Centre and finish at Aberfoyle Lodge in the Honde Valley. The Challenge starts at Golden Pools, and the Mutarazi Traverse finishes back at Far and Wide.

There are five races: The GOAT 126km, The Epic 70km, The Ultra 56km, The Challenge 32km and The Mutarazi Traverse 30km. The Back2Back combines the Traverse on Friday with the Challenge on Saturday. People entering The GOAT or The Epic must send in a running CV with their entry.

Race weekend is 4 and 5 December 2026. On Friday the Mutarazi Traverse starts at 05:00 and The GOAT at 10:00. On Saturday The Epic starts at 03:30, The Ultra at 04:00 and The Challenge at 08:00. Participants can choose to share their own live position on Livebib from their phone, so family and friends can follow them from home. This is not the organiser's timing, and official results come from the organiser.