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Twenty Thousand Runners at the Foot of the Rwenzori: Inside the Tusker Lite Mt Rwenzori Marathon
Industry News6 min readFeatured

Twenty Thousand Runners at the Foot of the Rwenzori: Inside the Tusker Lite Mt Rwenzori Marathon

On 22 August the fifth edition of Uganda's biggest sports-tourism event took over Kasese — 20,000 runners, 43 countries, a 4am start at the Equator, and a course record. One of our own was on the organising committee. Here is how the weekend actually went, and what to do differently next year.

Jeremiah
|August 31, 2026|
Tusker Lite Mt Rwenzori Marathon, Rwenzori Marathon, Kasese

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