Inca Trail Marathon | Machu Picchu Marathon: July 2016

Inca Trail Marathon Description 🏃

Experienced runners, especially racers, designed this Inca Outdoor Activity "Inca Trail marathon." All runners will finish at Machu Picchu in this race!

You can add your name to this elite list of Inca Trail Marathon runners and become a true Chasqui!

The Inca Trail Marathon is the perfect challenge on your sports trip to Machu Picchu. A Cusqueñean person from Cusco, Roman Tinta, 1997 completed it in 3 hours and 34 min. If you're fit and properly acclimatized, 6 or 8 hours is the right time for people who want to run the whole Inca Trail.

Inca Time runners
The great Inca Empire in Latin America communicated with all its citizens through a network of long-distance runners. These corridors traveled by road hard surface of stone or earth elements and geographical context. The messenger runner was called "the Chasqui." The communication of the Inca Empire in Peru was totally entrusted to a group of specialized brokers. The messengers of the Inca runners were between 18 and 20 and were specially trained to cover large parts of the empire. Their movement had encrypted knots in fabrics, parcels, and items of magic or divine origin messages. These corridors were the main reason the Inca government was successful in its decisions.

Distance: 42 km/26.2 mile
Duration: one Day Inca Trail Marathon race
Altitude: 2,720 m/8,817 ft. to 4,215 m/13,818 ft.
Difficulty: The trek is rated as demanding; any reasonably fit runner should be able to cover the route.
Temperatures: From minus 4ºC to 28ºC/ 39° Fahrenheit to 82° Fahrenheit
Service Level: Standard
Rating: Five star
Locations: Cusco state – Peru
Starting point: Cusco / Ending point: Cusco
Trip Style: Inca Trail Marathon – PERU
Physical Grade: Demanding
Trip Type: 10 to 25 participants

ITINERARY

Day 1: Cusco arrival and transfer service.
Today, all runners and spectators arrive in Cusco at different times. We will transfer you from Cusco airport to the Hotel (located in Cusco center), just write us your arrival hours to organize your transfer services. The rest of the day a free time on your own.

Day 2: Cuzco Race Briefing Day.
Brief is in the morning at 9:00 am MEETINGS: one FOR KONDOR RUNNERS, one FOR KONDOR SPECTATORS. These will be held for race packet distribution, review the pre-race logistics for racers in the Inca Trail Marathon, and give spectators finish line information and details. In addition, around 13:00 pm, We have a Cusco city tour (GUIDED GROUP TOUR) to explore four Incan sites. Optional a short Andes run near Pucapucara to Cusco city via Moon Temple (an Ancient Inca Trail).

The rest of the day is free, and at your leisure to relax, explore more of the Cusco center, and prepare your duffle bag pack for the race!

Day 3: Cusco – Ollantaytambo – Km 82 – Llactapata
Departing Cusco after breakfast at 6:30, we stop to visit the Ollantaytambo Inca site (to explore and know how the portions on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu race are?). Then we reach via dirt route to Km 82, where you begin the Inca Trail. This hike is moderate and short to Llactapata camp. In the afternoon, you will have a Kondor-guided tour around the Llactapata Inca citadel.

Spectators will take the train to Aguas Calientes at the foot of Machu Picchu!

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

Day 4: Inca Trail Marathon
Official Inkathon Race Day!

Early breakfast in advance, and at 5:00 am, the race starts. Those that do not complete the race in one day will camp at Wiñaywayna at mile 23! Finishers will sleep in Machu Picchu Pueblo, well known as Aguas Calientes village by Machu Picchu.

Spectators must walk, returning to KM 82 by foot, then by Kondor Transport to Ollantaytambo train station (Your Train departs at 11:15 am Inca Rail). In one hour and forty minutes, you will be arriving at Aguas Calientes Village. Then heading up to Machu Picchu Park to receive the finishers around the Inca guardhouse.

Meals: Runners find three Aid Stations during the Inca Trail Marathon (sandwiches, crackers, fruits, freshwater, dehydrated fruits, and Gatorade).

Day 5: Machu Picchu tour and award of medals
All finishers and spectators will take an early tourist-shared bus up to Machu Picchu Inca citadel to enjoy a lovely sunrise at the ruins "if it is not cloudy" before a full-day site tour. Two-day finishers will continue running the route after breakfast, arriving in Machu Picchu in time to tour the Machu Picchu Inca citadel.

An evening spent all together in Machu Picchu Pueblo (in the Hotel), with prize giving and Inca Trail Marathon medals for all runners of one or two days Inkathon race.
Meals: Runners and Spectator "dinner."

Day 6: Moray -Chinchero – Cuzco
The morning train back to Ollantaytambo, then by transport to Cuzco; on the way back, we visit the Salt mines of Salineras of Maras and Moray (the cycling Ina terraces). We will arrive in Cusco around 17:00 pm the rest of the day, a free evening to explore Cusco.

Meals: Breakfast

Day 7: Cuzco Out
For clients who are flying back to Lima and then to their Home Countries at this stage, we have to transfer you from the Hotel to Cuzco airport for your flight back to Lima.

Meals: Breakfast

Runnable Trail 😀

Llactapata: 2,585 m / 8,480 ft. To Wayllabamba 3000 m / 9,900 ft.
415 m / 1,365 ft. Pretty runnable – steady ascent and descends
Wayllabamba 3000 m / 9,900 ft. To Warmiwañusca first, pass 4215 m / 13,828 ft.
1215 m / 3,986 ft. Demanding – very steep climb (whole steps and some Inca paths) experience levels required of Inca trail running.
Warmiwañusca first Pass 4215 m / 13,828 ft. to Pacaymayo 3600 m / 11,877 ft.
615 m / 2,017 ft. Arduous descent: Challenging to run down fast. Be careful, Kondor Runners!
Pacaymayo 3600 m / 11,877 ft. to Runkuracay second Pass 3945 m / 12,942 ft.
345 m / 1,131 ft. Demanding ascend: very steep grade "full Inca Trail marathon stairs."
Runkuracay second Pass 3945 m / 12,942 ft. to Sayacmarca 3600 m / 11,877 ft.

345 m / 1,131 ft. Steep descent: The Inca Trail has a mix of stone stairs and irregular stone Inca trail Marathon.

Sayacmarca 3600 m / 11,877 ft. to Phuyupatamarca third Pass 3850 m / 11,975 ft.
250 m / 820 ft. Relatively flat, the section of the Inca Trail Marathon "with the great Andes views" is easier to go faster in this part of the previous sections.
Phuyupatamarca third Pass 3850 m / 11,975 ft. To Wiñaywayna 2650 m / 8,694 ft.
1200 m / 3,937 ft.Very steep descent: slippery Inca Trail Marathon section and uneven stone stairs. Be careful with some hikers and porters on the way!
Wiñaywayna 2650 m / 8,694 ft. To Inti Punko (Sun Gate) last pass 2715 m / 8,907 ft.

65 m / 213 ft. Reasonable and easy: flatter with some ascend and descent but exceptional, the Gringo Killer steps are "very steep" before your Sun Gate summit.

Inti Punko (Sun Gate) Last Pass 2715 m / 8,907 ft. to Machu Picchu. End Inca Trail Marathon 2400 m / 7,874 ft.
315 m / 1,033 ft. Last push to the Inca guardhouse, where the race gets Ended "in front of Machu Picchu." Kondor Inca Trail Marathon experience and the Inkathon lifetime race.
Machu Picchu Pueblo overnight 2065 m / 6,774 ft.

Easy we go by bus to Aguas Calientes Pueblo "last bus at 5:20 pm".