What's Tango Ultramarathon?
3 PROJECTS of International Friendship Ultramarathon
Tango 100km Ultramarathon has got the certificate of silver label from International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) in 2014. Tango 100km Ultramarathon is now changing into the International friendship race.
There is no border in running.
Come and join us at Kyo-Tango city!
1. Friendship alliance with 南横超級(Wulu Gorge Ultra) Marathon in Taiwan!
Mutual exchange of each 2 winners between Tango Ultramarathon and Wulu Gorge Ultramarathon.
★2 winners from Wulu Gorge Ultramarathon in March 2015 will be dispatched to Tango Ultramarathon in Sep 2015!
★2 winners from Tango Ultramarathon in Sep 2015 will be dispatched to Wulu Gorge Ultramarathon in March 2016!
2 winners (1 male and 1 female) of 100km division from Tango Ultramarathon 2015 will be dispatched to Wulu Gorge Ultramarathon in March, 2016.
What is 南横超級(Wulu Gorge Ultra) Marathon?
南横超級(Wulu Gorge Ultra) Marathon is held in March, in Taitung(*), Taiwan. The race categories are 120km, 100km, 60km and 45km. The course include highway and the elevation of the highest point is 2,330m. It is full of superb view include beautiful valley.
20 runners including the race director will participate in Tango Ultramarathon from 南横超級(Wulu Gorge Ultra) Marathon. Let us make the friendship strong through the Ultramarathon!
Taitung（台東県）is in southeastern part of Taiwan, facing the east Pacific Ocean, west to Taiwan Central Mountain Range. Both of the tourism associations of Takao city which has the closest airport and Kyo-Tango city has been sighed a friend alliance from 2011.
Updated on 29 Jul.
Dear all:
I am a Race Director, Rich Fu,Taiwan Southern Cross-Island Road/南横超級 (Wulu George)Ultramarathon.
Thank you for inviting two runners as a guest for International Friendship Race in Historical Road Tango Ultramarathon 2015.
Our home, our land, Taiwan, Taitung County, Haiduan township is inviting you all to our beautiful nature and enriched seafood. Haiduan Province is filled with wonderful scenes, the mountains, the people, the culture and the land of Aboriginal Life. We are also in friendship exchange program with Tango Ultramarathon with both elite participants are invited as well as general participants from both countries. The main goal is to build forever friendship, sports tourism and joy for all.
This year, we will have approximately 20 participants from Taiwan and to enjoy Tango's 100km and 60km ultra event.
Let's us all enjoy the upcoming event in Japan. And again, we welcome you all to come to wonderful Taiwan!
Southern Cross-Island Road /南横超級(Wulu Gorge) Ultramarathon
Race Director
Rich Fu
It has recommended personally, please enjoy good video of the beautiful scenery of Taitung.
美麗的台東
Race detail
Wulu Gorge Ultramarathon
Date：March 12th, 2016
Country：Taiwan, City：Taitung, Venue：Guanshan Elementary School
Categories：120km, 100 km, 60 km, 45 km
Course：Road ,city to mountain, up to 2300m, return to city.
Elevation：See the course map.
【120km】Start：4:00 AM, Cut off：7:00 PM(15hours)
【100km】Start：5:00 AM, Cut off：7:00 PM(14hours)
【60 km、45 km 】Start：9:00 AM, Cut off：7:00 PM(10hours)
The race is to associate sports with sightseeing, marathon with appreciation of the traditional aboriginal culture and the beauty of nature in Wulu Gorge road, in Haiduan township, East Taiwan.
Runners who will be dispatched to Wulu Gorge Ultramarathon in March, 2016 will be…
- First place male winner of 100km division in Tango Ultramarathon 2015
- First place female winner of 100km division in Tango Ultramarathon 2015
The race office will pay for：
The Round-trip ticket (excluding the accompanying expenses)/ accommodation / entry fee
Guest Runners from
南横超級 (Wulu Gorge Ultra) Marathon
5th straight win for 100km
梁文榮（Liang, Wen-Jueng）35yrs
- Champion for 100km division of Wulu Gorge Ultramarathon (2011-2015)
- Member of national team of Taiwan for IAU World Championship in Qatar, 2014
- Champion for 100km division of Jeju City 100 km(KOR), 2012
- PB：100km 7:54:17h
2nd straight win for 108km
柯俞東（Ko, Yu-Tung）32yrs
- Champion for 108km division of Wulu Gorge Ultramarathon (2014-2015)
- Champion of Around Hualien and Taitung Ultramarathon 333km(TPE) , 29:48:07h, 2013
- PB：108km 9:45:07h
2. International Friendship Ambassadors!
Those 2 nice people welcome the participants as the International Friendship Ambassador and Ambassadress.
Those two came to Japan with falling in love in Japanese culture, will introduce Japanese charm, charm of Tango and charm of Ultramarathon.
Chad Mullane (right)
Perth, Australia
Entertainer
He is a member of the most famous comedy company “Yoshimoto” in Japan and very popular as a Manzai-shi among the Japanese comedy.
Not just Manzai, he is known as a TV personality of English conversation for kids and move actor. He would be spread the Japanese Manzai spirits in the whole society from now on too.
Don’t miss it!! Manzai show will be performed on Pre-race day.
Lavrow Xenia
Germany
She is 4th grade student of Meiji University of Integrative Medicine.
This is the 4th challenging the 60km women’s category Tango Ultramarathon for her and she marked 9th-ranking with 5h 34min in 2013.
She is learning the nursing care in University and has been succeeded as a Kyoto Prefecture Friendship Ambassadress from 2 years ago.
Moreover, she loves Japanese culture, especially “Wagashi”. She had worked at an old established Japanese sweets store in 2 years after learning confectioner special school in Japan. What an amazing her personal history!!
Tango-Ultramarathon will be held with the several international friendship events on Pre-race day, let’s enjoy with Ambassadors!!
We will update the Ambassadors messages on middle of August. Check it out!!
3. International Friendship Events!!
■Supported by phiten
Self-body check session
Under the concept “Enjoy running more with self-care” , how to minimizing runner’s injury risks and recovery from exhaustion. We recommend you conditioning check before the performance. If you need an interpreter, don’t hesitate to ask us.
■Let’s make the Japanese Sushi Roll Supported by Okami-san
(First 30 applicants only)
■Pre-Race Briefings about the latest Information and Course Tips
English session available.
■Japanese Traditional Dancing Show
“Manzai” Presented by Chad Mullane.
Event time table will be up date soon!! Don’t miss out!!
◆Tango 100km Ultramarathon are introduced in following sites.
・ahotu Marathons: International Running Calendar and runners’ resources (U.S)
・RUN SOCIETY (Singapore)
・Ministry Of Run (Singapore）
・Deutsche Ultramarathon Vereinigung（Germany）
WORKOUT REPORT
International Friendship Ambassadress Lavrow Xenia x Official MC WAKA-chan
International Friendship Ambassadress Ms.Lavrow Xenia participated in WAKA-chan’s workout* held by Tango ultra’s official MC Junko Wakabayashi(WAKA-chan) on 31th July.
The report from WAKA-chan has just arrived!
- * What is WAKA-chan’s workout?
- ・speed training every week
- ・pace training every month
- The workout menu were
- *1,500m x 3times
- *1,000m
- *mile relay
Xenia enjoyed her training with her new friends even though she said ‘I just want to enjoy running , I don’t like the hard trainig’ before the training. She looked so excited!
WAKA: What’s your feedback?
XENIA: It was fun! I didn’t think I could run this much! It’s good to practice hard!!
Her face was pleased.
There are a lot of members who will be participating in Tango Ultramarathon, and they talked up a storm about it like ‘So nice of you to run 100km!’, ‘Let us see again on the course of Tango!’, ‘Please cheer me up if I was in difficult!’
Interview to Xenia!
WAKA: You came to Japan 9 years ago. Why did you come to Japan?
XENIA: I learned Japanese in Dusseldorf, Germany for 3 years when I was in high school, since a lot of Japanese were there. So I had an interest in Japan and wanted to come.
WAKA: How do you like Japan?
XENIA: I love Japanese! They are so kind! Kyoto is the best place for runners. There are many world heritages and I can go to see those by running. It is good for trail running because we have a mountain area. I like to run by Kamogawa-river, too!
WAKA: When do you train usually?
XENIA: I usually run in the night because I’m studying at school. I like night view at Kamogawa-river.
WAKA: What about in Germany?
XENIA: I was in track and field team and I was a long-distance runner since I was a junior high school student, but I didn’t like running so much. There was something changed my mind when I was 15. I suddenly realized that ‘Running is exciting!’, when I was running along Rine river. Running distance of my training was getting longer and longer day by day.
WAKA: That’s why you joined Ultramarathon?
XENIA:
Yes. My priority is not speed but long distance. I would like to run with seeing nice view of nature, just feeling like driving!
WAKA: What’s the charm of Tango?
XENIA: Tango has a glorious sea views different from Kyoto city. When the view of Japan Sea spread in front of me is my happiest moment. In addition, the local people are very warm. I felt close to tears when they say me ‘Welcome back’.
I’m linked by fate, I was under the midwife training for 4 weeks last November at Yasaka hospital which is one of the Aid station in Tango ultramarathon and I will be there again from 17th to 28th August. Some of the doctors and nurses there are ultra-runners and that is encouraging me.
WAKA: Oh, so they must cheer for you. Then, what’s your target goal of this Tango Ultra?
XENIA: I couldn’t train enough, but I want to enjoy the race and finish with smile with everyone!
WAKA: I will wait for you at the finish line! Have fun!
Interview to WAKA-chan!
■The number of participants in Tango ultramarathon is increasing. What’s your impressed episode?
I feel the participants are getting younger. Some of them take part in ultramarathon as their memories of graduation of school, others try to run ultramarathon even though they have no experience of full marathon. I was surprised by their challenging mind.
After the runners in 100km division started, I move 23km; to Kumihama venue (60km start) from Amity 
Tango (100km start) by running so that I can communicate with runners on the course. Almost 3 years ago, 2 boys whose ages are about 18 asked me ‘How fast should we run for 100km?’ Then I asked them how much they had trained, so they told me that they had run only 10km for their training! I was amazed by that… and told them ‘run until where you can run, and walk after that.’ I thought they can’t reach more than 40km, but I heard they were at 51km point. I thought they did their best, nicely.
Another impressed episode was the typhoon 2 years ago. I was calling runner’s name at the finish area with holding the table, while the canvas of the MC booth was flown away! I was moved very much by those who reached the finish line during that heavy rain. Human is awesome! Ultraranners are AWESOME!!
What makes them such strong? That’s eternal question…
I’m going to be there to see them again!
■What’s the charm of Tango Ultra?
Scenery, people and course.
■What do you want to do from here on?
I want to make my goal announcement for ALL finishers!
Sometimes when the timing is off, I miss the goal announcement for them, but the finish area is runner’s best place and moment after their long long running. I do want to congratulate on those best moment with calling their name one by one. I will do my all the best. See you there!
