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Registrations 2024 Are Open

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It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the opening of registrations for the 2024 Marganai Trail.
Get ready for an epic adventure in the wild nature of Sardinia!

Date: 16-17 March 2024
Choose your favorite route:
95 km 4,600m D+
46 km 2,000m D+
25 km 750m D+
17 km 650m D+
Whatever your level, there is a path for you. Here is the opportunity to challenge yourself and overcome your limits.

The Marganai Trail is a special experience made possible thanks to the scouts and volunteers who work tirelessly. This event is also an opportunity to contribute to charity.
All routes are valid for ITRA and UTMB, giving you the opportunity to earn points.
Join us for a weekend of sport, nature, friendship and solidarity. Save the date and sign up now!

6° Trail del Marganai Registration Is Now Open

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Here we are, we start again, from today registrations are open for the 6th edition of the Trail del Marganai.

Who wants to be the first to sign up?

The competitive distances are three:

and for those who do not want to compete but enjoy the day the non-competitive 11 Km.

The news are many and, just to give one, the 25 Km and 45 Km will pass through the enchanting corner of the coast that is Cala Domestica.

In the coming weeks we will tell you everything.

Registrations 2022 Are Open

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In recent months we have not been heard but we have worked hard.

Preparations are underway for the edition of the Trail del Marganai 2022 which will start and finish in Buggerru on 13 March 2022.

If you are not already register you can do at the following link https://krono.run/calendrier.php?id_evt=932, or clic the button.

There are there competitive races:

and one non-competitive:

On the pages of this website you can find all informations of the races, look the maps, read the regulations. You can download the traces in GXP format.

SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS BEFORE REGISTRATION

If you have already registered to one of the previous editions postponed for Covid-19 you don’t have to do anything.

All the old registrations are valid!

If you want to see if your name is in the registered list you can check this link: krono.run.

For any information send us a mail at segreteria@traildelmarganai.org

What else to say, we can’t wait to be able to meet again along the paths.

If you are not already register you can do at the following link https://krono.run/calendrier.php?id_evt=932, or clic the button.

 

ITRA e UTMB

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Nei giorni scorsi abbiamo chiesto, come ogni anno fin dalla prima edizione, la valutazione dei nostri percorsi a ITRA, l’International Ultra Trail Association di cui facciamo parte, e l’inserimento tra le gare qualificanti dell’UTMB.

Andiamo sul tecnico:

  • Alla gara lunga, 58 km e 3000m D+, sono stati assegnati 3 punti e viene stimato che il ranking minimo dell’atleta per concluderla è uguale a 430. Diciamo che è sfidante.
  • Alla gara media, 36 km e 2000m D+, sono stati assegnati 3 punti e viene stimato che il ranking minimo dell’atleta per concluderla è uguale a 340. Già meglio.
  • Alla gara breve, 22 km e 1050m D+, è stato assegnati 1 punto e viene stimato che il ranking minimo dell’atleta per concluderla è uguale a 280. Una passeggiata, insomma.

I giorni scorsi, dopo la certificazione ITRA è arrivata la comunicazione che è stata accettata la richiesta di inserimento del Trail del Marganai tra le gare qualificanti al Ultra Trail del Monte Bianco, per noi ammalati di Trail l’UTMB.

Tra un mese esatto potremo finalmente interrompere questa lunga attesa e incontrarci a Buggerru. Naturalmente, mi pare quasi inutile ricordarlo, senza fare assembramenti, mantenendo la giusta distanza tra le persone e indossando sempre la mascherina.

La Magia di Antas

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Perchè è stato edificato proprio lì più di duemila anni fa?
Ci sono dei luoghi e delle atmosfere che mi fanno stare bene e se non fossi fondamentalmente razionale direi magiche.

Il Tempio di Antas ha un suo fascino perchè è in mezzo al nulla o per essere più precisi è in mezzo alla natura da cui trae energia.

E’ bello arrivarci percorrendo la strada Romana immersa tra lecci, querce e bassa vegetazione mediterranea. Strada costruita sempre in antichità per collegare il Tempo ad un altro luogo magico. Le Grotte di Su Mannau.

Quando il bosco si dirada e lo sguardo riesce ad avere un orizzonte più ampio, si apre una piccola pianura e alla sinistra appaiono le antiche colonne.

La piana con il Tempio che la chiude su un lato si apprezza una volta che, preso il sentiero che porta alle cave, si sale di qualche decina di metri tanto da avere una visione dall’alto.

Quest’anno sono due le gare che passano per Antas, sia la 36 km che la 58 km.

Quando arriverete al ristoro perdete qualche secondo in più, poggiate una mano su quelle pietre millenarie e traetene nuova energia.

Paolo

  • Arrivando dalla Strada Romana
  • Il tempio punico romano di Antas
    Durante la gara
  • Durante la gara
  • Durante la gara
  • Arrivando dalla Strada Romana
  • Il Tempio di Antas
  • Il Tempio e la sua valle
  • La Strada Romana

ITRA certification and qualifying race for UTMB

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As for the previous four editions, the 3 races of the 5th Trail del Marganai are certified by ITRA (International Trail Running Association), which we are members of.

Long trail finishers (58 km with 3000m D +) will award 3 ITRA points, those of the mid distance (36 km with 1900m D +) 2 ITRA points and 1 ITRA point for the runners who reach the finish line of the short race (22 km with 1050m D +).

Furthermore, our request for both the 58 km and the 36 km to be admitted as qualifying races for the UTMB, Ultra Trail del Monte Bianco, has been accepted.

Even if with a little delay compared to previous years, we kept to our commitment to maintain our trail focused on the athletes and their benefits.

Less than 20 days left to register: don’t miss Buggerru and this splendid area of south west Sardinia, called Marganai.

We can’t wait to get the trail party started!

 

Pranu Sartu and the Henry Gallery

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After less than a kilometer from the starting line, you will cross the Henry Gallery in loc. Planu Sartu, the most important mining facility close to Buggerru.

Excavated in 1865, it was used for the rail transport of ores from the underground to distant washeries. Located 50 meters above sea level and the built-up area of Buggerru, it crosses the local plateau for about a kilometer.

If the original purpose was to facilitate the transport of metals from the local mines to the port of Buggerru, now it turns out to be a place of rare beauty, thanks to the breathtaking sea views it offers.

This passageway dug through the rock is impressive: the size was determined by the use in 1892 of a steam locomotive. It was part of a modern railway network that soon replaced the slow and expensive transport by pack animals, such as mules.

The gallery is a sort of suggestive labyrinth: secured, illuminated and endowed with indications, it is now accessible in complete safety. Its uniqueness consists in a perpetual relationship with the cliff on the sea through its minor tunnels and walkways carved, like windows, in the rock. Thanks to these openings you may enjoy suggestive views of the coast overlooking the sea.

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