Xtrail 100K

Xtrail 100K

The organiser’s line for this course is “begin with the wind: run to the southern edge of the island”. The route crosses the Hengchun Peninsula over coral plateaus, tropical hills and wind-swept ridges, where coral reef rises into limestone plateau and the ground underfoot is described as fossil and volcanic earth. The Luoshan-Feng wind is named as a defining feature of the race. The course is listed as a loop, starting and finishing at Howard Beach Resort, and carries three Running Stones as a UTMB World Series 100K.

The race page does not list cutoffs or aid stations in its text, and the mandatory equipment list is published separately. Read both on the organiser’s site before the start. What the published numbers already say is that 3,291 m of climbing on a 98 km loop is relentless rather than alpine, and that a 04:00 start puts the first hours on the ridges before daylight.

This page belongs to the 2027 Xtrail 100K. Twenty-four hours is a long time to wait at a beach resort, so the useful thing for family is knowing roughly where the runner is and when to walk down to the finish. With a shared Livebib link they see the position on the course line, the distance done and a finish estimate that updates as the race goes. In the gorges and forest, where the phone loses signal, the position is carried forward along the course and marked estimated rather than standing still.