(press note). Also this year, in September, the 50km in Gargano, Cristalda & Pizzomunno Trophy, a national ultramarathon event starting from Monte Sant’Angelo – Bivio di Carbonara (FG) and arriving in Vieste (FG), will be run on September 18, 2022, included in the FIDAL national calendar and valid as a Gran Prix IUTA 2022, organized by the ASD Gargano 2000 Manfredonia with the patronage of the Puglia Region, the Municipality of Vieste and the Municipality of Monte Sant’Angelo in collaboration with the National Park Authority del Gargano and with the collaboration of IUTA Italia – Italian Ultramarathon and Trail Association.
This will be an excellent opportunity for local athletes to try an ultramarathon near home by intervening in large numbers with friends and family and it will also be an excellent opportunity for Italian, European and world ultramarathon runners to get to know a piece of the naturalistic world between sea, mountain, forest, sacred and spiritual.
Through these sporting events there is an exchange of knowledge, cultures, traditions and great opportunities to get involved by experiencing a challenge such as an ultramarathon of greater distance than the marathon.
The start of the race will be near Monte Sant’Angelo, a Unesco heritage site, precisely at the junction SP 52 B Carbonara, reachable by bus provided by the Organization and by own means for the athletes staying in the affiliated hotels on Vieste. .
This event will be a great opportunity to spend a few days of seaside and spiritual holidays in tourist and worship places to discover sea caves and caves in churches and abbeys, such as that of San Michele Arcangelo in Monte Sant’Angelo and Pulsano, which can also be reached with excursions on foot from Manfredonia and Monte Sant’Angelo.
Giovanni Cotugno as well as being an athletics technician is also President of the Manfredonia Sports Association “Gargano 2000 Onlus” which for several years has been aiming to develop education through sport.
In the book “ORA Objectives Resources Self-efficacy, Model of intervention to achieve objectives in life and in sport” Gargano 2000 Manfredonia is mentioned: “There is a transmission of skills, of passion, among the athletes in the town of Manfredonia. … There seems to be a sort of handover, a sort of vocation to ensure that others benefit, draw useful lessons to do well, it is as if there was a longitudinal team game, a sort of devotion and vocation for the country to ensure that there is always someone in the town of Manfredonia who brings prestige in the field of Athletics, and this thanks also to the Gargano 2000 Manfredonia that supports these characters, accompanies them, defends them, protects them, exalts them, does a work of persuasion towards the athletes themselves regarding their abilities, potential. There is something that is being built over time, which has strong, solid roots, which is nourished by the various actors, president, managers, carers, technicians, parents. “
Sport brings people, cultures, worlds together and makes people happy and resilient following goals and directions, but always ready to reshape everything by riding the wave of change and using residual resources that sometimes become surprising and renewable. This is the advantage of sport.
This is the sport we want, a sport that makes us happy despite fatigue.
A good time to spend a few days in Puglia, especially in the Gargano for runner And ultrarunner, walkers and ultra walkers. Now is the time to get information, read up, book, sign up, contact friends to plan a trip to the south, in Puglia where there is always someone ready to welcome you.
Info Organizing Committee: ASD Gargano 2000 Manfredonia
Also this year in September the 50km race will take place in the Gargano