The Devil's Key Trail Race

This course is the real deal. You need to do some hill training for this beast. This is not your typical trail race and you won't find anything else like this in the province. Expect some seriously slow kilometres and don't expect to make up any time on the descents - they are long and steep. The kind that of descents that jam your toes into the end of your shoes and cause you to lose toenails a couple weeks after the race.

It's probably going to be hot. There will probably be some bugs. You will earn your finisher's medal with this race.

Runners will get to do it all - Devil's Glen Ski hill climb and descent, crawl through the keyhole (or take the longer way around), ascend the brutal climbs of Pretty River up to the highest point of the Bruce Trail and then shuffle down.

There are 4 "major climbs" and lots of "medium climbs". In total, there will be close to 6000' cumulative feet of climbing.

The cut-off time for this event is 13 hours, which is 5.12km per hour (a 11:43/km). It will be dark by 8:30pm on race day and all runners must be off the course before dark.

All participants will receive a Skeleton Key before the start of the race. You will be required to show your key at various checkpoints throughout the race. It's a really cool keepsake after the race but, be warned, if you lost your key - your race is over!