S1 Family Hike & Trail 14.8 km
New for 2027! A brand-new course!
The S1 Family Hike & Trail is designed for anyone who wants to experience the Corsa della Bora in a simple, enjoyable way: plenty of beauty and atmosphere, without chasing a time or having to deal with demanding sections. It’s the right choice if you want a ‘full’ day out that’s still within reach. It also suits first-timers, or anyone who would rather take in the landscape at an easy pace and head home, above all, with the views, the wind and that sense of a journey you feel here right from the start.
📍 Logistics
🧳 Bag storage
🚧 Time barriers, refreshment points and checkpoints
- 🥤🍴🍲 ⏱️ Duino, km 5.8
- 🥤🍴 ⏱️🚧 Visogliano, km 11.3 14.45
🎒 Mandatory kit
- Enough food and water to run 4 km
- Your own cup or mug for drinking at the refreshment points
- Survival blanket (emergency foil blanket)
- Mobile phone
🚌 Shuttles
💶 Entry fees
- €14 up to and including 1 June
- €20 up to and including 1 September
- €22 up to and including 1 November
- €25 up to and including 15 December
- €30 up to and including 10 January
- €0 – free for under-16s
🏅 Awards
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Course and elevation profile
Time barriers and refreshment points
Can’t find the GPS track?
Everything you need to prepare for the race is already on this page: the map, with the ITRA-certified distance and elevation gain, and the point-by-point checkpoint table, showing the kilometre mark, the ascent and descent of each section, the refreshment points and, where there are any, the time barriers and their closing times. These are the official race figures — the ones that count under the regulations and for ITRA points — and they are final: with that table you can plan your pacing, your split times, what to carry and where to refuel.
We hold the GPX back for two reasons, and neither is an oversight.
The first is your safety. People who download the track weeks in advance don’t go back and check it, and in exceptional cases the course can change at the last minute: a road closed, a path no longer passable, extreme weather. Set off with an old track on your device and you’ll find yourself following a line that no longer exists — and that’s where the risk becomes very real.
The second is that some sections cross private land. They are open for the race under agreements made for that day: they aren’t routes you can go out and do whenever you like.
Holding the track back for now isn’t a shortcoming: it’s how we make sure you have the right course on race day. The official GPX is released in the week before the race, in its final version, ready for you to load onto your device. On the day, the course is marked in any case: GPS is an extra check, not what you navigate by.
We often publish training loops and segments covering the stretches that are open all year round, so you can get to know the terrain before the race.
In the meantime, we recommend:
- looking at previous years’ tracks online, which help you get to know the terrain — though the course changes from year to year and some sections are only open on race day;
- consulting the interactive map to plan your recces;
- checking our Facebook page and the articles on the site for updates and recce loops.
CAI trail network
This course takes in CAI trails on the Karst
The race alternates trails listed in the CAI FVG trail register — Sector 0, Karst — with connecting sections specific to the course, waymarked by the organisers.
- CAI 001
- CAI 001a · Sentiero del Mitreo
- CAI 033
- CAI 008
The course
The same start as the S1 Half Trail and the S1 Borderless Trail, from the Bora Village at PortoPiccolo — but with no hurry at all. You go down to Sistiana Bay, climb on the road up to the Sentiero Rilke and then walk the Sentiero Rilke: two kilometres between white rock and the Adriatic, with a view that on clear days reaches as far as Istria.
At Duino stand the castle and the White Lady, the rock shaped like a veiled woman: a legend that is easy to tell a child. Then the woods, the lower slopes of Monte Ermada, the return through Visogliano and the descent to the sea. The same finish line, the same party and the same medal as the other races of the day.
It’s the Corsa della Bora for those who want to walk it, as a family.
Who this course is for
The S1 Family Hike & Trail is designed for anyone who wants to experience the Corsa della Bora without chasing a time: families with children, people who are happy to walk for hours, and trail newcomers looking for a real first taste of the Karst, with no technical sections or big climbs to deal with.
No medical certificate required. No medical requirements to take part: the S1 Family Hike & Trail has no rankings and is open to everyone, walkers included.
Dogs allowed. On a lead, as in the S1 Borin and the non-competitive S1 Half Trail (all starting together at 10:00) — but not on any other distance of the Corsa della Bora.
Free for under-16s. No entry fee is due below this age, but you still need to register to receive a bib and a medal at the finish.
Fast hiking is the ideal way to do it, not second best. At a brisk walking pace (around 5 km/h) you’ll cover the 14.8 km in about 2 h 58 min, comfortably within the maximum time of 5 hours 10 minutes and the Visogliano time barrier (14:45). If you keep walking steadily, without lingering too long at the refreshment points, you have nothing to fear from the time barriers.
Something shorter, without leaving the Corsa della Bora. If you’re looking for something even shorter at the same event, the S1 Borin (5.5 km) is the most accessible distance on the programme, with the same start time (10:00) and the same finish.
Sister races — the ≤14 km band. In terms of physical effort, the S1 Family Hike & Trail is the longest distance in the ≤14 km band of our family of events, and serves as its benchmark. The band also includes Sardonzin (7 km) on sardon.run; Grego (8 km) and Valbruna (10 km) at the Winter edition of Alpe Adria Ultra Trail; and Oitzinger (12 km) at the Summer edition of Alpe Adria Ultra Trail. They are equivalent alternatives for anyone looking for a comparable experience at other events in the group.
Fancy walking the paths of the S1 Family Hike & Trail outside race weekend too? The guide Trail Running in Trieste brings together Karst routes you can run or walk all year round.
In Trieste, you never know.
One year in short sleeves drinking beer by the sea after the race. The next year, wrapped up to the eyeballs. The weather changes; the fun doesn’t. Check 10 editions’ worth of stats, then decide at the last minute what to wear.
Gallery
PortoPiccolo — Bora Village
Start and finish for almost every race. The Bora Village at PortoPiccolo is the event’s base: a fully covered, heated venue overlooking the Gulf of Trieste, with everything you need before, during and after the race.
One place for bibs, expo, showers, food and prize-giving — no moving from place to place, nothing spread out. Arrive, run, celebrate.
Accommodation
Apartment or hotel: book it yourself or straight from your Runner Profile. At the Corsa della Bora you can share an apartment with other runners — we’ll take care of matching you up with flatmates.
PortoPiccolo and Sistiana have places to stay just a short walk from the start. Trieste is 20 minutes away by bus.
Shuttles
Dedicated shuttles run from Trieste Central Station to the Bora Village and back: the outward trip costs €4 and the return is free. Each distance has its own timetable — check the page for your race.
The Bora Village is also on the regular Airport–Trieste bus route, so you can get there by public transport without the shuttle.
Getting to Trieste
The Bora Village is ideally located: two minutes from the motorway exit, 15 minutes from Trieste Central Station and 20 minutes from Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport.
By car, train, bus or plane — Trieste is closer than you think. It’s 90 minutes from Ljubljana and less than two hours from Venice.
PortoPiccolo, Sistiana · Duino-Aurisina (TS) · 2 min from the A4 motorway · 45.7633° N, 13.6350° E
🩺 Medical certificate: competitive and non-competitive races
✅ No medical certificate needed
🚧 Medical certificate required
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- NOT a member of an Italian sports club recognised by CONI