Transgrancanaria course maps and aid stations

The organizer gives 126 km and 6,764 m of climbing, with 30 hours to finish. You start at 23:59 on Friday from Las Canteras beach and spend the night climbing inland through Tenoya, Arucas and Teror to Fontanales. Tenoya serves only liquids. El Hornillo, Artenara and Tejeda take you through the middle of the island. Between Tejeda and El Garañón the course passes the foot of Roque Nublo, then drops past Tunte and the Ayagaures dam to Parque Sur.

The longest gaps are El Hornillo to Artenara and Ayagaures to the finish, about 14 km each, and crews can't reach El Hornillo or Ayagaures. You get life bags at Fontanales and El Garañón.

The Advanced starts at 09:00 on Saturday in front of the basilica in Teror. It follows the Classic's course to Fontanales, goes straight to Artenara where the Classic detours by El Hornillo, and shares the rest of the way. The organizer gives 82 km and 4,314 m of climbing, and 21 hours. The first half takes in Artenara, the Tejeda Caldera, Tejeda and the Nublo Rural Park, and the course file's high point, about 1,740 m, is right below Roque Nublo. After that the south face is drier and mostly downhill to Maspalomas.

Your one life bag is at El Garañón. Crews can meet you at Artenara, Tejeda, El Garañón and Tunte, but not at Fontanales or Ayagaures.

The Marathon is the festival's most popular race, with its field capped at 2,000. It's in the Short Series of the World Trail Majors. It starts in Tejeda on Friday morning in three waves, at 09:30, 09:40 and 09:50, with 1,784 m of climbing over 47 km and an 11 hour limit. The early climb is followed by a technical descent that includes the La Plata trail. Tunte and Ayagaures break up the way down, and two gentle climbs come before Maspalomas.

The cutoffs here are the first wave's: the organizer adds up to 20 minutes depending on your wave.

The Half starts in three waves from Santa Lucía de Tirajana on Thursday at 09:00, crosses the Caldera de Tirajana and the Llanos de la Pez, and climbs the Paso de La Plata. A technical descent through La Culata brings you to the finish on Tejeda's main street. It's 22.9 km with 1,817 m of climbing and 6.5 hours to finish. Crews can meet you only at El Garañón.

The Open Agáldar opens the week on Tuesday at 09:00 at the church square in San José de Caideros. It runs 21.4 km with 613 m of climbing and 1,368 m of descent, past the red soils of Pico Viento, through cardón cacti toward El Agazal, across the El Juncal ravine and around Amagro Mountain. It finishes in Gáldar. There's no crew access on this course.

The Promo joins the island's two highest villages: it leaves Plaza de San Matías in Artenara on Thursday at 10:30 and finishes in Tejeda. In between it goes through the Pinos de Gáldar pine forest and along the edge of the Caldera de Tejeda, with one aid station at the Parador de Cruz de Tejeda. It's 12 km with 869 m of climbing, and runners under 18 can enter.

KV El Gigante climbs 1,090 m in 5.5 km, from the Valle de Agaete up the wall of the Tamadaba massif, on Wednesday from 15:00, with each runner given a start time. The limit is 1 hour 45 minutes. Poles are allowed once you reach the trail. There's no transport back from the finish at the Tamadaba picnic area, so you walk down, giving way to runners still racing. The organizer recommends a headlamp for the slower runners on the way down.

The Short starts and finishes in front of the basilica in Teror on Saturday at 10:00. It's 5 km with 264 m of climbing and one aid station at El Álamo, and it has youth categories. The Family Trail for family teams runs on the same course at the same time.