Emilie Mann has been making a reputation for herself as a budding star of the trail-running scene in western Canada, however this weekend she proved she will compete on the North American scene as nicely, profitable her first 100-miler at Run Rabbit Run 100-Mile in Steamboat Springs, Colo., the place she broke the ladies’s course file by virtually half an hour.
This can be a race that takes place nicely above 2,000m of altitude and entails greater than 6,000 metres of climbing. The Fernie, B.C., native completed in 19 hours, 48 minutes and 5 seconds, demolishing the earlier course file of 20:16:54 set by Michele Yates of Littleton, Colo., in 2013 and ending eighth general.
Leah Yingling of Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, completed second, in 20:19:25 (for ninth general), and Barrett Grey of Issaquah, Wash., was third, in 21:41:29 (twelfth general).
It was a formidable 100-mile debut for Mann, who, in 2023, received the Golden Extremely 60K distance, the Sinister 7 50K and the Squamish 50-Mile (working the third-fastest ladies’s time within the race’s historical past). Again in 2019, she received the Canadian Lengthy Distance Mountain Operating Championship and went on to compete on the World Mountain Operating Championships in Argentina, the place she completed 57th within the lengthy distance (41.5-km) class. Mann at present makes her house in Kelowna, B.C.
The boys’s race
Richard Lockwood of Seattle received his second general title (he additionally received the 2022 race), ending in 17:24:41. Adam Loomis of Kamas, Utah, was second, in 18:12:17, and Christopher Hammes of Durango, Colo., rounded out the rostrum in 18:56:35.
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