Thrace

Nymfaia forest, KomotiniOpen in Maps Sunday, 22 November 2026

A 40 km loop from the forest above Komotini to the Greek–Bulgarian border and back. The first 17 km roll through oak and pine below 400 m to the Parcharia meadows; then comes the race: 860 m of climbing in eight kilometres to the border pyramids at 1,118 m, and a long ridge run home past Lithari and the Kanoni ruins, under the walls of the Byzantine castle that stands over the finish. Nearly nine tenths of it on path, in late-November Thrace.