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AlUla Trail Race in AlUla
The AlUla Trail Race is an annual multi-distance trail running event through AlUla's desert canyons and rock formations in northwestern Saudi Arabia, opening registration each winter and drawing international runners for an extreme endurance challenge across dramatic sandstone terrain, part of AlUla's broader positioning as an adventure sports destination.
AlUla has spent recent years building a reputation as one of Saudi Arabia's premier adventure sport destinations, and the AlUla Trail Race sits at the center of that push, drawing runners willing to tackle canyon and desert terrain that Esquire Middle East, describing the associated AlUla Ultramarathon, called an extreme test of endurance.