TransLantau™ by UTMB® 2026
Four races, one island, 44 hours of continuous racing from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Everything starts and finishes at River Silver Garden in Mui Wo; only the 100 km goes west into the dark — Tai O, the Big Buddha and Lantau Peak — and it is the race that owns the night and the dawn.
Times are Hong Kong local (UTC+8). Start times, cut-offs and the fastest/slowest curves are taken from the official race pages. First-runner and peak-flow windows are Daedalum Films’ working estimates from the 2025 results — easy to tighten with your registration numbers and start format.
What is on the course, and when
First-finisher and “bulk of finishers” are estimates; the profile is the official GPX.
Who is where, hour by hour
Each bar runs from the estimated first runner to the official last-runner time; the solid band is where the bulk of the field passes. Hover any bar for the numbers.
The island, the routes, the money moments
Race by race
Official checkpoints with our estimated flow windows. “Light” is the condition at the middle of the peak window (sunrise 06:35 · sunset 17:41 · golden ≈ 35 min either side).
Where the film is
How the weekend reads from behind the camera, and what shapes a coverage plan.
1 · Three zones and a hub
Mui Wo is the hub: every start, every finish, the TL100/TL50 mid-race pass at km 85 / 26, bib pick-up, drop bags, prize-giving.
- West (TL100 only, all at night): Pak Kung Au → Shui Hau → Shek Pik → Tai O → Ngong Ping → Lantau Peak → Pak Kung Au. ~46 km of the course, 20:15 Fri – 09:35 Sat.
- South-east (all four races, daytime): Radio Hill → Ham Tin / Pui O → Chi Ma Wan peninsula → Lo Yan Shan. Ham Tin is the one aid station used by all four races.
- North-east (TL100 + TL50): Mui Wo → Discovery Bay → Lo Fu Tau (465 m) → Olympic Trail → finish.
2 · The clock
Racing is continuous from Fri 19:30 to Sun 15:45. Saturday is the crunch: from 09:00 the TL100 mid-pack, the TL50 field and the first TL100 finishers are all moving at once, and the last TL100 runner is still out until 22:59 — after the TL50 course has closed.
- Six published cut-offs, all TL100/TL50 on Saturday plus TL25/TL15 on Sunday — each one is a small drama at a known time and place.
- The published slowest curve leaves the start 15–30 min after the gun; if the start is waved, start-line coverage is shaped around the waves.
3 · Light
- Night start 19:30, ninety minutes after dusk. New moon was 9 Nov → no moonlight: headlamps, floodlights and Tai O’s lanterns are the only light sources on the TL100 night.
- Dawn on Lantau Peak (sunrise 06:35): the mid-pack summits ≈ 02:40–05:55, the tail ≈ 08:20 — dawn-to-golden crossings for a large slice of the field.
- Golden-hour finish for the TL100 winner (≈ 05:58) and sunset finishes for the bulk of the TL50 (15:50–18:30; golden 17:10–17:56).
4 · Crowd flow
- Ham Tin Sat 09:30–12:45: TL50 peak (≈ 800 runners) lands on top of the TL100 mid-pack — the densest aid-station window of the weekend, and a cut-off at 12:45.
- Mui Wo Sat 11:00–18:30: TL100 finishers, TL50 through-traffic (km 26) and TL50 finishers share one venue.
- Sunday festival: TL25 and TL15 start an hour apart and finish together 12:00–15:45 — families, first-timers, prize-giving.
- Tai O, Shui Hau, Shek Pik: no daylight traffic at all — these are night sequences by design.
5 · Moving between locations
- Every aid station except Lantau Peak is road-accessible via South Lantau Road or Tung Chung Road; Discovery Bay is reached from Tung Chung or its own ferry.
- Trail-only positions — Lantau Peak summit, Lo Fu Tau, Lo Yan Shan, Radio Hill — are hike-in positions with a lit descent, chosen deliberately for the summit and ridge sequences.
- Ham Tin and Chi Ma Wan sit 1 km apart, and Mui Wo is the pivot for the whole east side: the geography rewards a few well-placed positions over constant movement.
6 · To align together
- Start format (single gun or waves) and expected field size per race — these set the start-line and finish-line coverage.
- Aid-station layouts and camera positions inside them, within the assistance-zone rules.
- Accreditation and image use for on-course footage, plus any aerial work within Hong Kong CAD and Country Parks rules.
- Prize-giving time on Sunday and access to live tracking for coordinating positions against the real race.
Where the cameras would be
“Live” windows span the first arrival to the last runner across all races that use the site.
A coverage plan shaped to this schedule
Daedalum Films will follow this analysis with a proposed coverage plan and deliverables for the weekend — start-line and finish-line coverage, the night and dawn sequences on the TL100, and the Saturday and Sunday flows through Ham Tin, Chi Ma Wan and Mui Wo — together with a quote.