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Morat Fribourg

Murten
Murten
© OpenStreetMap Murten. Photograph by Tony Castle, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons . Course line © OpenStreetMap contributors

The course

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A long climb of 160 m to km 13.

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  1. Photo: Conceptuel, CC0
  2. Photo: Norbert Aepli, Switzerland ( User:Noebu ), CC BY 3.0

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Murten

The race starts in Murten's Hauptgasse at 453 m, the old town where the 1476 victory over Charles the Bold is remembered.

Photo: Conceptuel, CC0

Height drawn many times taller than life. Heights: GEDTM30.

Course elevation profile, 8× vertical exaggeration Elevation along the course from km 0 to km 17. The trace runs between 447 and 611 metres, a range of 164 metres, drawn at 8 times vertical exaggeration so the shape is legible. Smoothed over 1 km before this profile was derived. An unsmoothed urban surface carries the buildings and would assert a climb that is not there. The dashed stretches are bridge decks: Route de Morat, km 14.2 to 14.4. A bare-earth model reads the ground or the water beneath a bridge, not the deck the runner is on, so those runs are interpolated between the ground either side rather than measured, and they under-report the real climb across a span.
0 5 10 15 17.2 km
0 2.5 5 7.5 10 mi

Dashed: bridge

  • long climb to 13

Your 2 gels, at the orange marksFor a 1:35 finish, one every 40 minutes

  1. km 7.2mile 4.5
  2. km 14.5mile 9

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The course in short 2 lines
  • Seventeen kilometres of 147617.17 km from Murten to Fribourg, run in memory of the 1476 victory.
  • From 453 m to 615 mStart 453 m in Murten, finish 615 m in Fribourg.
Course notes 2 short reads on the course
Whole courseLandmarkSeventeen kilometres of 147617.17 km from Murten to Fribourg, run in memory of the 1476 victory.

The organiser traces the race to that victory, after which the canton of Fribourg was born. The 2026 race was the 92nd edition and the next is the 93rd, on the first weekend of October 2027.

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Whole courseGradientFrom 453 m to 615 mStart 453 m in Murten, finish 615 m in Fribourg.

The 2026 race had three aid stations: water at Courlevon (5 km), water and Isostar at Courtepin (8 km) and water, Isostar and oranges at Granges-Paccot (13.5 km), then water, Isostar and apples at the finish in Fribourg.

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Race fuel

Energy gel
An energy gel sachet
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2 gels for Murten, plus 1 spare

Finish

One every 40 minutes, the orange marks on the profile, by the clock:

  1. km 7.2mile 4.5
  2. km 14.5mile 9

Our pick: SiS BETA Fuel gel, box of 6, strawberry and lime. 40 g of carbohydrate a gel, about twice a usual gel, from two kinds of sugar your body takes up side by side.

Easy to forget on race morning: pack them with your bib the night before.

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In Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Salted Caramel, 24-pack, the best seller there.

Outside the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the UK and Ireland, Spain and Portugal, Italy, the rest of the EU and Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Chocolate Outrage, 24-pack on Amazon.com, the best seller there.

Anti-chafe
Compeed Anti-blister stick
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Compeed anti-blister stick, 8 ml

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An invisible layer before the start keeps seams, straps and shoes from rubbing skin raw.

Put it on before you leave for the start: heels and toes, inner thighs, under a bra or heart-rate strap.

Try it on a long run first, like everything you use on race day.

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Number belt
A race number belt
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Compressport Race Belt

Holds your bib without safety pins through your top, with loops for up to 8 gels.

Clip the bib on the night before, so it goes on with your shorts in the morning.

Keep the number on the front, where officials and photographers can see it.

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Electrolytes
A tube of electrolyte tablets
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SiS Hydro electrolyte tablets, tube of 20

One tablet in a bottle puts back some of the salt you sweat out.

One tablet in 500 ml of water in the hour before the start.

Only if you have used them in training: nothing new on race day.

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Blister plasters
Compeed Blister plasters, medium, 6
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Compeed blister plasters, medium, 6

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One in a pocket cushions a blister if one starts.

Put it on clean, dry skin and leave it until it comes off by itself.

Give a couple to whoever comes to cheer, so they are there at the km you need them.

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distance
17.2 km10.7 mi
climb
245 m804 ft

The Morat Fribourg is a hilly course of 17.2 km with 245 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 447 m and its highest 611 m above sea level. Next race: Sunday 3 October 2027.

Trip

Getting a place

Entry through the organiser

morat-fribourg.ch: this address did not answer when we last checked it, so it is not linked.

The organiser, a third party. We take no entries and have no part in the race.

Sources and licence

Last checked.

Course line matched onto OpenStreetMap road geometry: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL). Elevation sampled from GEDTM30, Global Ensemble Digital Terrain Model at 30 m (v1.2): Elevation: GEDTM30 (Ho & Hengl, OpenGeoHub), CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Elevation gain computed by us from that line, smoothed over 1 kmsmoothed over 0.6 mi.

The line follows the road down its middle, so it measures 1.42% longer than the certified distance, which is measured on the shortest legal line through every bend.

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