The celebrities are out. We bought our first 2025 appears at Jade Belzberg, Janelle Lincks, Rod Farvard, and Hannes Namberger, and a few money and course information to go together with it.
Joyful St. Patrick’s Day, mates, to those that have fun!
Chuckanut 50k – Bellingham, Washington
It was the longtime race’s thirty first operating. A prize purse despatched $550 to the winners, with cash going three deep. Situations have been characteristically U.S. Pacific Northwest with muddy trails and wet skies.
Ladies
Second in 2024, Jade Belzberg edged Klaire Rhodes for this 12 months’s crown. Belzberg completed in 4:22 and Rhodes in 4:24. Belzberg will transfer south in April for Oregon’s Gorge Waterfalls 100k, and Rhodes shall be there too. Sarah Carter was third in 4:29.
The ladies’s high 10 was:
- Jade Belzberg – 4:22:40
- Klaire Rhodes – 4:24:44
- Sarah Carter – 4:29:07
- Abigail West – 4:34:22
- Sarah Paxson – 4:35:16
- Heidi Ohrling – 4:37:45
- Jenny Quilty – 4:44:17
- Mercedes Vince – 4:45:09
- Katherine Boere – 4:46:13
- Sarah Trautman – 4:46:32
Males
The primary seven males went below 4 hours, but it surely wasn’t that shut at that high. Chris Myers crushed it with a 3:39 end that was 10 minutes sooner than everybody else. Myers was earlier third on the Black Canyon 50k in February and is returning to the Western States 100 in June, the place he was tenth in 2024.
Karl Augsten (Canada) and Andrew Rylaarsdam chased to second- and third-place runs in 3:49 and three:51.
The lads’s high 10 was:
- Chris Myers – 3:39:10
- Karl Augsten (Canada) – 3:49:04
- Andrew Rylaarsdam – 3:51:13
- Tracen Knopp – 3:51:41
- Ryan Sullivan – 3:54:02
- Chris Balestrini – 3:58:48
- Matt Seidel – 3:59:19
- Will Murray – 4:00:56
- Greg Krathwohl – 4:01:07
- Gus Gibbs – 4:01:32
SkySnow European Championships – Tarvisio, Italy
The primary SkySnow European Championships had Vertical and Basic races. The uphill-only race went 3.6 kilometers and with nearly 1,000 meters of climbing, and the Basic self-discipline went 15k however with solely 515 meters of elevation achieve. Runners from 16 totally different nations took half, and solely nationwide crew members have been championships eligible. That brought about some mingling between the open race and championships podiums.
Vertical
Benedetta Broggi (Italy) received her first of two golds on the weekend in 42:01. Corinna Ghirardi and Lena Hofer, each additionally from Italy, have been subsequent in 42:12 and 42:14. Hofer wasn’t within the championships race although and that vaulted fourth-place Emily Collinge (U.Ok.) onto the championships podium in 43:35.
Italy’s Daniel Thedy and Tadei Pivk went one-two within the males’s championships race, and Luca Kovacic (Slovenia) was third. The three ran 33:53, 34:41, and 34:44. Slotted in between the group because the second finisher, however not within the championships classification, was Christian Hoffman (Austria) in 34:14.
The 2025 SkySnow European Championships Vertical race males’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Tadei Pivk, 1. Daniel Thedy, and three. Luka Kovacic. Picture: Worldwide Skyrunning Federation
Basic
Once more, the championships have been restricted to nationwide crew athletes, however Elisa Desco (Italy) ran unattached and completed first in 71:24. [From 2010 to 2012, Elisa Desco served a two-year doping ban from the IAAF after she tested positive for EPO at the 2009 World Mountain Running Championships.]
Whereas second, third, and fourth throughout the end line, the subsequent three runners have been first, second, and third within the official championships outcomes then. That meant that Benedetta Broggi once more scored ladies’s gold for the host nation in 72:42, and Joana Soares (Portugal) and Silvia Lara (Spain) have been second and third in 73:35 and 74:24.
The 2025 SkySnow European Championships Basic race ladies’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Joana Soares, 1. Benedetta Broggi, and three. Silvia Lara. Picture: Worldwide Skyrunning Federation
It was once more an Italian one-two within the males’s race. This time, Lorenzo Rota Martir and Luca Del Pero led the best way in 60:56 and 61:40, and Alvaro Osanz (Spain) was third in 61:52.
Extra Races and Runs
Mountainman Wintertrail – Reit im Winkl, Germany
Kim Schreiber and Hannes Namberger, each of the house nation, received huge over 31k in 2:23 and a pair of:05. Namberger, final 12 months’s UTMB fourth-place finisher, is predicted to race the Canyons by UTMB 100k in California in April. Full outcomes.
9 Trails 35 Mile Endurance Run – Santa Barbara, California
For the ladies, Charlotte Cox took house the win in 6:46, with oodles of actual property between her and second place, in her second victory within the occasion. For the boys, Jim Walmsley’s 5:12 course document had stood since 2019. Rod Farvard was fourth that 12 months in 5:43. Farvard’s now a special runner than he was in 2019 although, and the course document’s not the identical now both. Farvard went 5:08 to win and set a brand new course greatest. Full outcomes.
Outdated West Path Runs 50k – Julian, California
On the Mohave Desert race in Southern California, Olivia Horgan set a brand new ladies’s course document in 4:24, and Robert Webber was the boys’s winner in 3:48. Full outcomes.
Olivia Horgan, 2025 Outdated West Path Runs 50k ladies’s champion. Picture: Outdated West Path Runs/Paksit Pictures
Robert Webber, 2025 Outdated West Path Runs 50k males’s champion. Picture: Outdated West Path Runs/Paksit Pictures
XTERRA Black Canyon Path Run – Black Canyon Metropolis, Arizona
Black Canyon, Arizona, we’ve been right here earlier than, final month. The half marathon ran by way of the path’s water crossings, desert mountain views, and spring wildflowers, and it was the 12 months’s seventh XTERRA Path Run World Collection race, too. Janelle Lincks had her first outcomes of 2025 with a 1:48 win alongside males’s champ Caleb Kirchhoff in 1:45. Full outcomes.
Mid South 50k – Stillwater, Oklahoma
Held as a part of a gravel biking occasion, the 50k run noticed Sofie Schunk and Aaron Taylor pace to three:30 and three:34, respectively, because the winners. Full outcomes.
Grasslands Path Run – Decatur, Texas
The North Texas occasion dates again to 1999. Lindsay Duffield and Nick Petterson received the 100 miler in 22:48 and 15:25, and Sarah Loch-Take a look at and Brantley Grantham led the 50 miler in 9:15 and seven:47. Full outcomes.
Get Fortunate 50/50 – Canal Fulton, Ohio
The 50-mile winners have been Hannah McCorkle and Alec Cline in 8:02 and 5:33, and Alex Borsuk and Zach Crim received the 50k in 3:54 and three:14. Borsuk’s time was a brand new course document for the seventh-year race. Full outcomes.
Rabid Raccoon 100 Mile – Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
Rachel Moore and Oliver Bieser have been tops in 23:43 and 20:49. Full outcomes.
The Cove 50k – Chickamauga, Georgia
The second-year race had Shannon Wheeler-Deboef and Mac Dean go 5:51 and 4:54 for the wins. Full outcomes.
Bel Monte Endurance Races – Waynesboro, Virginia
The Blue Ridge Mountains race noticed Tricia Denardis and Matthew Wilson lead the 50 miler in 12:57 and 9:37, and Erin Schneider and Adam Schwendt out entrance within the 50k in 6:05 and 5:00. Full outcomes.
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