S-Mountain - GTNS37km 2026
Also known as: NIPPON TRGP · NIPPON TRGP NOZAWA · 4100D 37km
Starting and finishing at the Olympic Sports Park in Nozawa Onsen, this course climbs to Yamabiko Station atop the Nagasaka Gondola and returns to the venue. It is the Nippon Trail Running Grand Prix series race, built around speed and competition.
The course tops out at 1,646 m (low point 508 m). There are 2 big climbs: 1,025 m around 0–14 km; 507 m around 28–32 km. The longest descent drops 670 m around 14 km at about 15% on average. Only about 30% is gentle (under 5% grade); most of it is climbing or descending. The median finish was about 7 h.
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Predict in detail from my Strava trainingOverview
- Date
- Sun, 19 Jul 2026
- Start
- 09:00
- Location
- Nagano, Japan
- Distance
- 37 km
- Elevation gain
- 2,212 m
- Time limit
- 9h 30m
- ITRA
- M
- Official website
- s-mountain.com/nozawa/about
Elevation profile
Aid stations and cutoffs
| # | Distance | Aid station | Segment | Cutoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 km | Aid 1第1関門 長坂ゴンドラ山頂やまびこ駅 | 15 km | Day 1 13:004h |
| 2 | 22 km | Aid 2第2関門 オリンピックスポーツパーク | 7 km | Day 1 15:006h |
| F | 37 km | FinishFINISH オリンピックスポーツパーク | 15 km | Day 1 18:309h 30m |
The small figure under each cutoff is the time from the start. Day 1 is the day of the start.
2026 results
366 finishers. Finish times of those who finished:
- Fastest
- 3h 25m
- Top 10%
- 4h 29m
- Top 25%
- 5h 43m
- Median
- 6h 54m
- Top 75%
- 8h 3m
- Top 90%
- 8h 59m
- Last finisher
- 9h 29m
"Top 25%" means one in four finishers had crossed the line by this time.
Years with a different course or different cutoffs are not directly comparable.
Practice courses
See the course on the Runnable map ↗
Runnable has practice courses on this race's trails, split into sections to run and sections to walk (pages in Japanese).
- Runnable practice course (37 km)
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