Puglia by UTMB, live.

Every road ends at the Ionian Sea

Five races start in five different places across the Terra delle Gravine, and all of them finish on the same beach at Castellaneta Marina.

Puglia by UTMB runs from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 October 2026 in the UTMB World Series. The longest course, I Sassi di Matera, leaves Matera at 21:00 on Friday for 145 km and 3,500 m of climbing. Le Maioliche di Laterza starts in Laterza at 08:30 on Saturday (85 km), the Castellaneta Underground Trail in Castellaneta at 07:00 on Sunday (50 km), and the Ginosa Rivolta Trail in Ginosa at 09:45 on Sunday (35 km, although the organiser files it under the 20K category). The Costa Verde Trail is a 10 km run from Castellaneta Marina itself on Saturday at 17:00.

What ties them together is the ground. The organiser describes deep limestone ravines, the gravine, with rock churches, hypogea and villages cut into the stone, and the gravina at Laterza as a gash twelve kilometres long and up to 200 metres deep. The courses climb out of them and drop toward the coast: the climbing figures are modest for the distance, from 3,500 m on the 145 km down to 50 m on the 10 km, and the last kilometres of the long races run along the sand.

For anyone waiting at the finish, that geography makes the day easy to read and hard to guess. The runner shares a link to their own Livebib broadcast. Family and friends open it in a browser, with no account and no app, and see the position on the course line, the distance covered and a finish estimate that updates as the race goes. Down in a ravine, where a phone can lose its signal, the position is carried forward along the course and marked as estimated rather than freezing. The runner decides who gets the link.