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Broken Arrow Skyrace

The Broken Arrow Skyrace is a skyrunning event held in Olympic Valley at Palisades Tahoe, California. It offers five distances, from 11K to 46K, and features on both the Golden Trail World Series and WMRA World Cup calendars.

Prepare for Broken Arrow Skyrace

A plan built from your answers and your race date.

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The Broken Arrow Skyrace is run in Olympic Valley, on the Palisades Tahoe terrain in California's Sierra Nevada. The ground is high-mountain: steep pitches, exposed ridgelines, lingering snowfields early in the season and sections where hands come into play. Altitude is a factor in its own right for anyone arriving from sea level.

Five formats are offered: 46K, 23K, 18K, 11K and an Ascent race, a pure uphill event.

The formats

4 formats on the program.

Format	Distance
46K	29 mi
23K	14 mi
18K	11 mi
11K	7 mi

Organizer information, checked on September 21, 2026 · brokenarrowskyrace.com

When to start

At this distance, a build usually runs 12 to 24 weeks. The 2027 date is not published, so counting back from December puts the start around June 28, 2027.

These ranges are working conventions, not a research finding — no trial has compared plan lengths against each other. What matters more is that the plan was built for the weeks you actually have, rather than shrunk down from a longer one.

How to choose your start date

When to start

June 28, 2027

→ September 20, 2027

Worth reading before you enter

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Questions

What is the date of Broken Arrow Skyrace in 2027?

The organizer has not published the 2027 date for Broken Arrow Skyrace yet. The race is usually held in December, in Olympic Valley (Palisades Tahoe).

What distances does the Broken Arrow Skyrace offer?

Five events are on the program: a 46K over 46 km, a 23K over 23 km, an 18K over 18 km, an 11K over 11 km, plus an Ascent race, a pure uphill format with no distance listed.

What level do you need for the Broken Arrow Skyrace?

This is high-mountain skyrunning, with steep gradients, exposed sections and real altitude. The 11K stays within reach of a trained trail runner, but the 46K calls for genuine mountain racing experience.

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