← All eventsTor des Géants (TOR330)
One of the toughest ultras on earth: ~330km / 24,000m D+ single-stage, semi-self-sufficient (no pacers) around the Aosta Valley's Alte Vie, 25+ passes over 2,000m, 4-6 days on the move, 150h limit. Date approximate (mid-September).
One of the toughest ultras on earth. Some 330km and 24,000m of climbing around the Aosta Valley's high routes, run continuously from Courmayeur with the clock never stopping.
Twenty-five-plus passes over 2,000m, several above 3,000m. Most finishers spend four to six days on the move, on short self-managed sleep, with no pacer to lean on.
Nothing here is generous. The 150-hour limit sounds long until you meet 24,000m of technical Alpine descent and several nights of sleep debt. Sleep is the crux, not any split.
Is Tor des Géants (TOR330) for you?
- Experienced mountain-ultra runners. This is a lottery event, and 330km of high Alpine terrain assumes real mountain competence, not a first ultra.
- Runners with durable quads. The 24,000m of technical descent, repeated over days, ends more attempts than the climbing does, so descent-hardened legs matter more than speed.
- Athletes who can keep moving on broken sleep. Over four to six days you manage your own naps at the life bases and grind through the lows yourself.
- The self-reliant. With no pacer and semi-self-sufficiency, you run your own kit, food and morale between the bases.
Training plan for Tor des Géants (TOR330)
A training plan for Tor des Géants (TOR330) isn't a generic base build. Beina reads the event's exact demands, looks at your specific profile and the time you actually have, and maps a highly adapted plan to the start line.
- Relentless vertical: around 24,000m of climbing and equal descent over 25-plus passes above 2,000m.
- Technical high-Alpine terrain: rock, scree, snow and exposed cols, some above 3,000m.
- Multi-night sleep deprivation across four to six continuous days, all self-managed.
- Semi-self-sufficiency: no pacer, strict mandatory kit, and life bases as your only real support.
- Big-vert mountain days of 6 to 10 hours, targeting 2,500 to 4,000m of climbing.
- Back-to-back and triple mountain days (Saturday, Sunday, into Monday) to build multi-day durability.
- Technical downhill repeats to condition quads and footwork for the descending.
- An overnight-into-next-day run with a planned nap, rehearsing sleep debt and self-sufficiency.
- Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
- Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
- Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
- One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
