Highland Fling Race
| Entry Fee | £120.00 |
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Welcome to the 17th Highland Fling Race.
The 2025 race takes place on Saturday 20th September and is a point-to-point trail ultramarathon along the southern 53 miles (85 km) of Scotland’s iconic West Highland Way trail through the Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park from Milngavie (close to Glasgow) to the highland village of Tyndrum.
EVENT DETAILS
- Distance: 53 miles (85 km)
- Ascent 2300m / Descent 2100m
- Terrain: 90% trail / 10% road
- Point to point way-marked route (no navigation required)
- Chip-timed
- There is a drop bag system in operation - 3 food drop bags available
- Free showers at race finish
- Free home-made food & drinks at event finish
- Heated marquees to relax in at event finish
- Event Afterparty in marquee at race finish (BYOB & Donation Bar)
- Free post-race massage
- Free official event photos
- Free Luggage transport from start to race finish
- Sponsor stalls at race finish
- Event Buses available pre-race to the start from Tyndrum and Glasgow West End, and post-race back to the start in Milngavie from the finish (extra cost)
ENTRY DETAILS
- The event accepts female, male, and non-binary runners
- Entry Fee: £120
- All runners must be at least 20 years old on race day
- No deferrals or transfers of entries are available
Active Gender Entry System
When entries open, we will initially be allocating race places by gender. There will be 500 places for women and 500 places for men, as well as the option to enter as nonbinary. If a particular gender sells out, a waiting list will then be opened for that gender. The aim of this is to balance and equalise the final male/female gender split and also encourage nonbinary participation.
This process is a trial and we will be continually monitoring entries. Depending on entry numbers after a period of time has passed, we may open up any remaining places to all genders at a later date.
ENTRY CRITERIA
To qualify for the 2025 event, you must at some point in the past have completed an ultramarathon, a road marathon or a trail marathon. If your longest race is a road marathon, the finish time must be under 5 hours. If you have completed an ultramarathon on road or trail, any finish time is acceptable. If you have done a road marathon in over 5 hours BUT it was at the end of an Ironman, that's acceptable.
If you haven't already completed such an event then you have until 1st June 2025 to do so.
Long fell/hill races and very long distance walking events may be accepted at our discretion. Please note that GPS data such as Strava/Garmin/Suunto logs from training runs are not accepted.
IMPORTANT EVENT RULES
- Runners are not allowed external support at any time. No support runners/pacers. Spectators are welcome at specific locations.
- All runners must carry an emergency foil blanket, a waterproof jacket with hood and taped seams, waterproof trousers and charged/switched on mobile phone.
- It is strictly FORBIDDEN for any participant to run in place of another runner. No one is allowed to run using another runner's race number.
- Limited earphone use allowed.
- No dogs accompanying runners.
- If you decide to withdraw during the race, you MUST let us know about it before going home.
- The use of ibuprofen, diclofenac, or any other NSAID as a race-day painkiller is forbidden.
- Do what the marshals tell you. At all times. And especially at road crossings.
- Race numbers must be worn on your FRONT, and must be visible to marshals at all times.
- Absolutely NO LITTERING- carry your rubbish with you and use the big litter bins at checkpoints.
RUNNER AGE LIMIT
Minimum age for entrants is 20 years old (on race day).
REFUND POLICY
- A 14 day cooling off period will apply. Withdrawal in this period will result in a £5 administration fee.
- After 14 days a 50% refund of the entry fee is offered up until 1st July 2025.
- After the 1st July 2025 no refunds will be given.
- No deferrals to 2026 are available.
- No transfers of places to other runners are available
- In the event of withdrawal from the event, any charity donations made at the time of entry are NOT refundable.
There is optional insurance available through XCover which can cover you for a range of issues to protect your entry fee, such as:
- Injury or illness happening to you, or a member of your immediate family.
- Adverse weather including snow, frost, fog or storm where the Police or Government have issued travel warnings.
- The mechanical breakdown, accident, fire or theft en route of a private vehicle taking you to the booked event.
Please check their terms and conditions to see exactly what is covered.
2025 EVENT CHARITY PARTNER
INCLUSIVITY, EQUALITY & DISCRIMINATION
We are continuing our efforts to make our events more inclusive. We want everyone to feel welcome, comfortable and safe at our events. The steps we are taking to achieve this include:
- Active gender entry
- Early start option for slower runners
- Free female-focused training runs
- Event team is over 60% women
- Pregnancy/adoption deferral available
- Support for breast/chest feeding runners
- Period products provided in event portaloos
- Sweeper team is over 50% women
- female and male fit t-shirt option
- Medical/first aid team is around 50% women
- Anonymity available on start list/results
- Disabled parking available at race finish
- Low income support available
- LGBTIQ+ inclusive
The event is LGBTIQ+ friendly. We are also QIA+ friendly. You can enter our race as female, male, or non-binary. If you are trans, you are welcome to run in the gender category with which you identify. If you would like more information on this, please email us or give John or Noanie a call on 07941 670623.
We are fully committed to upholding all principles of the Scottish LGBT Sports Charter and have a zero tolerance policy to all forms of discriminatory language and behaviour. We have signed up to the Scottish LGBTI+ Rainbow Mark.
Many thanks
John & Noanie
Highland Fling Race
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View the Event Cancellation / Refund Policy.
This event offers the option to purchase XCover, so that participants may be able to get a refund if they are unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances.
