Race Intelligence · Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy
Forte Village has a bike course that will ask for more than strong legs. A technical 90 km circuit with climbing comes before two coastal run laps. The seconds you do not gamble on a descent may be the smartest ones you save.
Pula, the coastline and mountains.
Your day in Pula
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The course behind your race
The 2026 middle-distance bike visits four southern Sardinian municipalities. Its technical roads and long descent deserve as much preparation as the climbing, because a strong run starts with arriving safely and composed.
Forte Village beach
The swim starts and finishes near the resort. Find a steady effort and sight to the actual buoys. A beautiful beach tells you nothing about the water you will meet on race morning.
Settle into your own stroke. Confirm the buoy line and exit.
Four-municipality bike circuit
The bike circuit runs through Pula, Domus de Maria, Teulada and Sant'Anna Arresi. Stay below your climbing ceiling while you have the freedom to eat and drink regularly.
Cap the harder rises. Eat before technical riding demands attention.
Southern Sardinian technical roads
The 2026 course is described as technical with real climbing. Don't mistake a closed-road event for permission to descend without judgement, and don't race an unverified sequence of individual corners.
Brake before you need to turn. Ride effort rather than speed.
Return to Forte Village
A long descent deserves proper handling, even though its exact position on the 2026 route still needs confirming. Wherever it falls, brake before the bends, leave room for mistakes and bring your legs home for the coastal run.
Ride the descent with margin. Complete fuelling where safe.
Cala d'Ostia, first circuit
The two coastal circuits reward a patient opening after the technical bike. Settle the stride and assess your effort before deciding a pace that still has to work on lap two.
Use the first aid point deliberately. Keep the first circuit controlled.
Cala d'Ostia, second circuit
The second coastal lap passes Cala d'Ostia before finishing in the resort. Run by current form and effort rather than assuming the nominal 21.1 km corresponds to an exactly measured pair of 10.55 km laps.
Choose the final move late. Keep fuelling as planned.
For the 25 October 2026 race, the Saturday 24 October briefing is scheduled for 14:00 and bike check-in runs from 15:00 to 19:00; confirm both in the final athlete message. Also check the technical descents, closed-road arrangements and the sea forecast. Know where the coastal run turns and where you can take aid. This half-distance course is not the separately announced 2027 T100 Challenger format.
A race-day forecast is not meaningful yet; check back closer to the event.
Historical baseline, 2019–2025 · Open-Meteo historical archive · Updated 2026-09-15.Historical comparison only. This is not a forecast for 2026.
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Prepare for Pula
A finish range gives you something to work towards. The preparation is specific to this race: climbing at a controlled effort, descending with confidence and beginning the second coastal circuit with enough strength to hold form.
I’m Tom. With Sense Endurance Coaching, I’ll build that preparation around your life, follow how you respond and adjust the work as you get closer to Pula.
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