The XTERRA Grabouw mountain bike route has become iconic and much revered by XTERRA enthusiasts globally.

Over the past winter I - Conrad Stoltz, 7x World Champion and Trail Builder - have built a brand new trail called The Dream Trail, featuring fast, flowy trails on mostly hard packed clay soil. Access to this single track is via a 2km long jeep track climb, gaining 170m. After this 9km opening jaunt, its back out on the familiar XTERRA trails from previous years. A significant change is the Rock Garden and surrounding sandy trails will be excluded from the race. 

The clover leaf design consists of a 20km loop, where once back to the Race Village, you’ll go through the Spectator point and Enduren Aid station before tackling the final 10km loop.  

 This iconic Grabouw course with its white sandstone rock formations and sandy patches features tons of single track - which makes this ride a real mountain bikers' dream, despite it “only" being 29km with 850m of vertical gain.

 
Download the GPX file and practice on the course in your preparation for the event. You can also hire a guide at Trails End Bike Hotel. The trail will be fully marked and ready to ride a week before the event.

This 10km trail run with “only" 190m of vert gain is a trail runners’ extravaganza - it is vary varied - sweeping trail in the Fynbos, dense woods with wooden bridges, a steep jeep track climb, some technical bundu bashing and even a 80m Swamble down a knee to hip deep mountain stream. As always the run finishes on the Moon Landscape next to the Eikenhof Dam.