Lisi Trail Festival

After the 2024 event which obviously was one of the most memorable trail races of the year TRAILLAB with the support of Tbilisi City Hall and in partnership with Georgian Trail Running Federation gets back to you with the annual festival!

The event is held on October 12 and hosts all the adventurers, novice and experienced runners. Everyone will have a chance to experience the thrills of trailrunning within their preferred level of difficulty by choosing the race distance from 7km fun race to 62km ultra trail race.

The festival hosts five distances:

Fun Race: 7km, 300m

Sprint: 10km, 700m

Lisi Trail Race: 20km, 1,000m

Lisi Trail Marathon: 42km, 2,250m

Lisi Ultra: 62km 3,000m

The camp of the festival is located at Tsodoreti Lake and all the races will start and finish there.

More detail about each distance:

Fun Race: 7km, 300m

The most crowded and fun race of the festival. The route of the distance goes to the hill located on the opposite side of other distance routes with some river crossings and beautiful forest scenery.

Sprint: 10km, 700m

The festival’s fastest race covers the distance from Tsodoreti lake to Mskhaldidi lake and back. On the way runners will of course climb Natlismtsemeli mountain.

Lisi Trail Race: 20km, 1,000m

Classic Lisi Trail Race distance held annually starting 2019. This is a 20 kilometer loop which starts at Tsodoreti lake, crosses forestry areas, a couple of mountain tops, creaks and gets back to Tsodoreti lake from the other side. Amazing views on Tbilisi, Trialeti and Caucasus mountain range awaits participants.

Lisi Trail Marathon: 42km, 2,250m

Part of the race course coincides with the beginning of Lisi Trail Race but in this case after Bevreti gorge runners climb to Satovlia ridge where they enjoy the views on river Mtkvari valley, Caucasus mountains and surroundings all along the 10km section on the ridge. After this, runners soon turn to the gorge again and head back to the finish location in Tsodoreti.

Lisi Ultra: 62km, 3,000m

Apart from the places covered by other distance participants ultra runners will additionally pass headwaters of river Vere, Didgori Monument and village Ghvevi.

The runners must pass the given control/refreshment points and reach finish in the following cut-off times:

Fun Race - 03:00 hours - 1 checkpoint

Sprint - 02:30 hours - 1 checkpoint

Lisi Trail Race - 04:00 hours - 2 checkpoints

Lisi Trail Marathon - 10:00 hours - 4 checkpoints

Lisi 62 - 13:00 hours - 6 checkpoints

All the distances are registered by the International Trail Running Association (ITRA) and Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB). While three of the distances are qualifiers of international races

Lisi Trail Race

Lisi Trail Marathon

Lisi Ultra