Ultra X Morocco, live.

Two days of desert trail around Ouarzazate

Ultra X Morocco is a desert trail race over three distances in and around Ouarzazate, at the edge of the Sahara, finishing at Atlas Film Studios.

Ultra X Morocco is a desert trail race in and around Ouarzazate, the town the organiser calls the door of the desert, on 14 and 15 November 2026. Ultra X presents it as its most accessible desert ultra, a way to get a genuine desert race experience without committing to a full week in the Sahara. It rates the event 2/6 for difficulty, and the 2026 edition is sold out.

The course runs past kasbahs, fortified villages, palm groves, desert oases and open valleys at the edge of the Sahara. The organiser describes it as varied and runnable, on rocky desert trails rather than flat road. The route is marked with blue paint and arrows, with glow sticks after dark, and checkpoints roughly every 10 km offer drinking water, shade and medical support. Mid November usually brings warm days and cool evenings, from around 8°C at night to highs that can reach 30°C.

There are three distances. The 110 km is a two-day stage race. The first stage starts at 07:45 on Saturday from Taourirt Kasbah in Ouarzazate and finishes at the overnight campsite at L'Escale de Ouarzazate in Tazentout. On Sunday the 110 km field sets off again at 07:45 from the campsite, together with the single-stage 50 km, on the same route to Atlas Film Studios. The 25 km starts at 10:00 on Sunday from Ait Ben Haddou, the UNESCO World Heritage ksar, and joins the main route to the same finish. The route itself measures 27 km.

For anyone following, the field passes a chain of numbered checkpoints, and each participant is logged by the checkpoint team before leaving. On Sunday the 25 km field joins the main route before CP3, so its participants share the last stretch, and CP4, with bananas and Coca-Cola, with the 50 km and 110 km fields. Cut-offs average 2.5 hours per 10 km. Each checkpoint has a time by which participants must have left it, and the organiser publishes these times in its race pack.

Supporters who travel can wait at the finish at Atlas Film Studios, where return buses run to the race hotel in the afternoon. Race HQ is the Hotel Karam Resort in Ouarzazate, where the post-race buffet and the awards ceremony take place on Sunday evening.

Every participant is tracked through the LiveTrail app, and the organiser links its live timing from the Timing button on the event page. The organiser says results will appear on that page as people cross the finish line, and official results come only from Ultra X.

Separately, a person taking part can choose to share their own live position on Livebib from the phone they carry, so friends and family can follow along. This is not the organiser's timing and does not replace it.