"It was the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and after writing the article and with no races to run, Paco realized that the time had come to organize something in Italy that would bring back that intimate and essential dimension to our sport that he felt Nolan's 14 embodied. And so he thought up the Translagorai Classic, a challenge to complete an 80-kilometer route traversing the Lagorai mountain range in Trentino in northern Italy in under 24 hours."
"In 1999, Vance, along with his friends Blake Wood and Gordon Hardman attempted the crossing. While none of them finished that August, the following year they succeeded in organizing a start that was limited to a few participants and that had very few and simple rules: no pacers allowed, travel route alternating each year, a final cutoff of 60 hours."
In 2020 Francesco Gentilucci (Paco) created the Translagorai Classic after encountering Nolan's 14. The route crosses the Lagorai range east to west from Rolle Pass to Panarotta, covering about 80 kilometers and over 5,000 meters of elevation. The event adopted minimal rules emphasizing independence and a collective start held in July 2020. Luca Forti, who previously ran the route solo, co-organized. Nolan's 14 history inspired a format that privileges a small, informal challenge with few rules and a focus on self-supported mountain crossing, echoing a tradition that has produced numerous FKT attempts.
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