Preparation FAQs

No – for safety and planning purposes, you cannot register for the first time on the morning of the event – you must have registered prior to the event and registration for Monster 2012 is now closed.

Registration for Monster 2013 is now open!  Be one of the first to join Monster on its 10th anniversary.  Early bird registration is £75 per person.  Please complete and return our early bird registration form with a cheque payable to 'Maggie's Centres' to Maggie's Monster, 1st Floor, One Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 6AY. 

Yes, you can do this right up until the registration on Friday 4 May 2012 but you cannot replace people on the morning of the event. This is for the purposes of insurance and safety.

Please ensure you contact us on 0300 123 1801 if you wish to change or cancel anyone’s place. Unfortunately registration fees are non-refundable if you have to cancel someone’s place without replacing them.

For the safety of our walkers we only allow a minimum of 3 people in a team.

You must be with a minimum of 2 people when leaving each checkpoint.  You will be held at the checkpoint until at least 2 members of your team join you or until you are joined with another team of at least 2 people leaving the same checkpoint.

Monster is a team event and we want to encourage you to stick together as a team throughout the event. This will help you keep safe as well as keep up morale and get you and your team to the finish line together. By training together as a team it will help you set a realistic pace that each of the team members are comfortable with. 

We do understand that it is natural that each person within a team has different fitness levels and walking paces.  We will be at the checkpoints and on route to ensure that hikers are not walking alone and join hikers who have broken away from their original team with another team walking at their pace to the next checkpoint.

We would encourage you to join Maggie’s Monster Bike & Hike Facebook page where you can post a request to other Monster participants to join their team.

Please refer to the full Event Terms and Conditions.

• Participants must check in and out of all checkpoints.
• Participants must wear their participant number throughout the event.
• You must have only one support vehicle per team, due to space restrictions at some of the checkpoints.
• Please inform a marshal at a checkpoint if any of your team decide to retire from the event for whatever reason. • The time of the last team member to check in at a checkpoint counts as the team time.
• Dogs can only accompany you on the walking section of the route from Fort Augustus to Drumnadrochit and must be kept on leads. This is in line with the Scottish Outdoor Access code and is a requirement of the event organisers.
• Please deposit all litter at checkpoints - not on the Great Glen Way!
• Please contact our main Event HQ emergency telephone number in case of emergency. This telephone number will be given to you at registration on the eve of the event and will also be printed on your participant number.

This is the warm up on the eve of the event and it is essential every participant attends. It runs from 5 - 10.30pm; you can attend at any time during these hours.

The party includes entertainment, a buffet dinner and the all important safety briefings. The safety briefings last about an hour (one at 7pm and one at 9pm – same briefing) and every participant must attend one of them.

The buffet dinner is included for every participant and two members of their support team – if you wish, you can buy additional tickets for other family or friends who are with you. Tickets for them to attend are £5 and can be bought when you register on the Friday night.

We will allocate your start time 2 weeks before the event and will send confirmation of your start time in an email along with final details and important event information.

Please note that you cannot request to change your allocated start time to the earlier slot. If you have been allocated the 6.30am start time and would prefer to start later in the 7.45am start time, please let us know and we will see if we can switch your team to a later start time.

The first two start times are the most popular and will also be full to capacity. So if you are allocated the 9am or 10am start, you cannot change your start time to be in one of the earlier ones. If you have been allocated the 6.30am or 7.45am start time and would prefer to start later, please let us know and you can switch to a later start time.

Please contact us on 0300 123 1801 – it may mean you will need to move en masse to a later start time. Where possible we have endeavoured to put all joint teams together in one start time. Or it may mean waiting for your team mates en route to ensure you all reach the checkpoint together!

Yes, we do have cut off times that participants must reach each checkpoint by in order to be allowed to continue to the next.  However, we have allowed for more than enough time for you to reach each checkpoint so this shouldn't be a worry to you.

Participants cannot leave the location and continue with the event after these times.  

Fort Augustus: 16h00

Invermoriston:  20h30

Drumnadrochit:  02h00

Yes, Athlete's Angels have prepared a training guide for Monster participants going to Bronze, Silver and Gold.

Take a look under Get Prepared and then Fitness Levels and Training on the website.

If you are hiring a bike from Maggie's you will need to bring your own spare inner tube as stipulated on the Compulsory Kit List and in case replacement is needed on route.

The specification for the hire bikes used by Maggie’s on this event is: 24 speed front suspension mountain bikes.  A 26'' x 2'' standard mountain bike inner tube is the required spare ('presta' valve although a standard inner tube this size would be fine).