ATM Candidate: Transnaning Ultra Challenge with Milton & Wilsen

There’s many ATM Candidate Races in Malaysia this year and the next one in line is Transnaning Ultra Challenge in Tampin. This is quite a famous hiking and trekking route, renowned for its considerable degree of technicality. 2017 ATM Champion Steven Ong is the race director and designed a true challenge for ultra runners. The Transnaning loop is 33 km long and participants can choose to run one to five loops, the five loops measuring therefore approx 100 miles with an elevation gain of nearly 12000 hm. On paper, the toughest endurance trail challenge in the country therefore. It’s the kind of challenge for the selected few, of course, and most participants in the event content themselves with one or two loops. Amongst those who will attempt the five loops are last week’s winners of the Kadamaian Adventure Ultra 70, Milton Amat and Wilsen Singgin. Both have ample experience over the 100 miles distance, and let’s not forget that Wilsen Singgin won the Ultimate 230 of Ultra Trail Chiang Rai in 2019.

The Transnaning loop is renowned to be highly technical