April 14, 2025 – iRunFar

The scoreboard’s utterly full with racing from Croatia to California. Let’s bounce proper in.

You may also take a look at our race protection from earlier within the week:

Gorge Waterfalls – Cascade Locks, Oregon

30k

The three-day occasion opened on Friday, April 11 with the quick course race.

Anna Gibson ripped by way of the waterfalls in 2:14, ending second general and clipping three minutes from Rachel Drake’s year-old course file. Subsequent up for Gibson is the June 1 U.S. Mountain Operating Championships on the Sunapee Scramble in New Hampshire. Camila Noe and Kristen Schindler had been second and third in 2:22 and a pair of:30.

Males’s winner Nicholas Lightbody (Canada) got here by way of in 2:08, and Joshua Taylor and David McKay had been subsequent in 2:16 and a pair of:17, respectively.

100k

The primary two men and women every earned automated spots on the U.S. group that can compete within the Path World Championships – Lengthy Path race in September in Spain.

Shea Aquilano was the daylong chief within the ladies’s race and ran to a 9:14 end. Aquilano will get an opportunity to enhance on her Thirty third-place end on the 2023 Path World Championships – Lengthy Path race in Austria.

Jade Belzberg (Canada) and Klaire Rhodes ran 9:27 and 9:34 for second and third. With Belzberg competing for Canada on the Path World Championships, all three of the rostrum getters are anticipated to race in Spain in September. All three all ran below Hannah Allgood’s 2022 course file too.

The primary 10 ladies had been:

1. Shea Aquilano – 9:14:49
2. Jade Belzberg (Canada) – 9:27:39
3. Klaire Rhodes – 9:34:25
4. Robyn Lesh – 9:45:14
5. Lea Mulligan – 9:52:47
6. Addie Bracy – 10:20:11
7. Corinne Shalvoy – 10:29:39
8. Brittany Peterson – 10:31:48
9. Jennie Yeaman – 10:41:45
10. Mercedes Vince – 10:48:17

The primary 4 males all beat Jim Walmsley’s 2017 course file. On the high, Adam Peterman pulled away in crunch time for a 7:59 first-place end. Upstart Tracen Knopp hung powerful for second in 8:05, and  Philip Royer was a shock third-place finisher in 8:19.

The primary 10 males had been:

1. Adam Peterman – 7:59:30
2. Tracen Knopp – 8:05:16
3. Philip Royer – 8:19:30
4. Jeff Colt – 8:20:12
5. Ryan Sullivan – 8:28:18
6. Matt Seidel – 8:38:41
7. Blake Slattengren – 8:40:11
8. Anthony Williams – 8:44:59
9. Avery Collins – 8:58:48
10. Dylan Humberger – 9:09:11

50k

The three-day occasion wrapped up with Sunday’s point-to-point 50k. Sarah Allaben was victorious in 4:38, and Taylor Bacon and Kristina Randrup podiumed in 4:46 and 4:52.

Joshua Potvin was three minutes higher than Liam Meirow within the males’s race, 3:49 to three:52, and Adam Loomis ran 4:07 for third.

Full outcomes.

Desert Rats by UTMB – Fruita, Colorado

The occasion passed off in far western Colorado on trails overlooking the Colorado River.

100k

Lotti Brinks was means out entrance in 9:25. Emilie Mann (Canada), final yr’s Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile winner, was second in 10:21, and Geneviève Asselin-Demers (Canada) took third in 10:31.

The primary two males battled solely six minutes aside. Alex Johnson scored the win in 8:57 and Tyler D’Arcy was proper there in 9:04. Third-place Corey Kallembach ran 9:23.

50k

Alison Baca soared by way of the ladies’s run in 3:57. That was adequate for third general too, and it comes two months after Baca gained the Black Canyon 50k. Ashley Brasovan and Sophie Linn ran subsequent in 4:10 and 4:24.

Brian Whitfield outdid the lads’s group with a 3:35 end. He’s obtained the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 46k subsequent. Grant Colligan and Austin Anderson had been second and third in 3:49 and three:57.

21k

The occasion’s 12-mile race would possibly’ve been its best. Tabor Hemming nabbed the ladies’s win in 1:36. Janelle Lincks was second in 1:39, and Sydney Petersen was third in 1:40. Alison Rudy and Molly Olsen had been subsequent to complete in 1:43 and 1:47.

Eli Hemming gained for the lads in 1:19, and Taylor Stack was a minute higher than Coleman Cragun for second. Stack and Cragun ran 1:22 and 1:23. Jeshurun Small and Devin Pancake had been fourth and fifth in 1:26 and 1:27.

Full outcomes.

Penyagolosa Trails – Castellón, Spain

CSP 106k

The longtime occasion’s lengthy race went 66 miles and with over 18,000 toes of climbing in far japanese Spain.

The primary three ladies gapped the fourth-place finisher by over an hour, but it surely was shut on the high. Elisabeth Ríos (Spain) and Mecedes Pila (Spain) ran collectively for a lot of the day and Ríos waited a number of seconds on the end for the 2 to cross collectively in 14:03. Maria Isabel Fuentes (Spain) was third in 14:25.

Simply 13 minutes separated the lads’s podium on the lengthy course. Ivan Calvo (Spain) led the group in 11:01, and Hirokazu Nishimura (Japan) and Arnau Segui (Spain) completed in 11:09 and 11:14.

MIM 60k

This one was a fairly aggressive course too, totaling virtually 11,000 toes of climbing in 37 miles.

It was an all-Spanish ladies’s podium with Inés Astrain beating Gemma Arenas and Mireia Pons for the highest spot. The three ladies completed in 6:07, 6:27, and 6:30, respectively. Astrain broke Laia Cañes’s occasion file that had stood since 2016.

José Ángel Fernández (Spain) gained for the lads forward of Abel Carretero (Spain) and Miguel Arsenio (Portugal). The race winner ran 5:14 and the subsequent two ran 5:20 and 5:24. It was Fernández’s third straight win.

Full outcomes.

Istria by UTMB – Umag, Croatia

The occasion’s 5 race distances introduced 2,500 runners to Croatia’s northwestern peninsula.

168k

The lengthy course went for 105 miles and with 21,620 toes on a point-to-point course.

Ivana Siric gained the ladies’s race for the host nation in 22:59. Maja Bonačić (Croatia) and Lenka Hiklová (Slovakia) scored subsequent in 24:11 and 24:18.

The lead males had been fairly unfold out. Alex Westenberger (Germany) gained in 18:09. Croatian runners Pavel Kruljac and Matija Meštrić had been second and third in 19:24 and 20:48.

110k

The primary 4 ladies took the course in below 13 hours with Nicol Guidolin (Italy) profitable in 12:17. Alena Pabortsava (Russia) and Julie Lesage (Canada) got here subsequent in 12:33 and 12:45.

Zan Zepic (Slovenia) zipped by way of the course for the lads in 9:56. Martin Halasz (Slovakia) and Tomasz Kik (Slovakia) hit the rostrum in 10:38 and 11:04.

Full outcomes.

Mad Metropolis Ultras – Madison, Wisconsin

The occasion is a longtime house of the USATF 100k Highway Nationwide Championships, however as an alternative hosted the USATF 50k Highway Nationwide Championships this yr. The shorter of the 2 races then delivered the extra aggressive discipline.

100k

Amber Arvidson was hours forward within the ladies’s race in 8:17. That was good for third general. Males’s winner Martin Erl completed in 7:14.

50k

For each the ladies and the lads, you needed to be a 50-mile world file holder to win right here.

Courtney Olsen edged out Sophie Seward for the ladies’s crown. The 2 ran 3:16 and three:17 and had been 50 seconds aside. The mark bettered Olsen’s 3:19 former private greatest from 2019. Lindsay Prescott was third in 3:20. Lower than 10 minutes separated the primary 5 ladies.

The highest 5 males all ran below three hours. Charlie Lawrence outpaced the group with a 2:49 end, and Jeffrey Seelaus and Adam Vadeboncoeur each ran 2:53 and solely 13 seconds aside. Fourth-place Ryan Root ran 2:53 too and was solely 4 seconds behind Vadeboncoeur. Lawrence’s time ranks among the many top-10 quickest Individuals ever.

Full outcomes.

Lake Sonoma – Healdsburg, California

50 Mile

Tara Dower’s street to the Western States 100 runs by way of Lake Sonoma. Dower was out entrance in 7:36, and Jane Maus and Robyn Mildren ran 7:54 and eight:07 for second and third. The three ladies earned $1,250, $750, and $500 in prize cash.

The boys ran it actually shut. Stephen Kersh beat Ryan Raff and Chris Myers to the road in 6:50. Raff and Myers had been in at 6:52 and 6:53.

Marathon

Lindsay Allison went sub-4 with a 3:46 profitable time. Selena Langner and Nicole Valentine had been second and third in 4:01 and 4:05. The marathon paid prize cash too with $3,000 being cut up among the many ladies’s and males’s podiums.

As within the males’s 50 miler, simply three minutes separated the primary three males. Dan Jones (New Zealand) edged out Ryan Becker and Sven Koch with the three ending in 3:02, 3:04, and three:06.

Full outcomes.

Further Races and Runs

Marathon des Sables Legendary – Morocco

There’s a number of totally different Marathon des Sables sequence races now, however that is the OG and it went for six self-supported days and 250k by way of the desert. Maryline Nakache (France), the race’s 2023 winner, used a powerful lengthy stage on day 4 to place a giant hole on Aziza El Amrany (Morocco), the race’s 2024 winner. Nakache went on to complete 23:57 and regain the championship crown, and El Amrany was pushed to second in 25:36. Tomomi Bitoh (Japan) was third in 29:38. For the lads it was once more Rachid El Morabity (Morocco) and Mohamed El Morabity (Morocco) on the high. Rachid gained in 20:55 and Mohamed was second in 21:00. It was Rachid’s eleventh win right here, all since 2011. Ahmed Ouikhalfen (Morocco) was third in 22:27. Full outcomes.

Andes Skyrace – Santiago, Chile

4 races in 4 weeks, the Skyrunner World Collection comes at you quick. This one went 35k on a loop course that totaled 3,500 meters of climbing. That’s 22 miles and 11,500 toes and all at excessive altitude. Blanca Llumiquinga (Ecuador) scored an upset win over Anastasia Rubtsova (Russia), 6:07 to six:09. Rosalia Zegarra (Peru) was third in 6:36. The boys went all the way down to the buzzer. Damien Humbert (France) was two seconds higher than Jose Manuel Quispe (Peru), each in 5:11. Joel Pumacayo (Peru) was third in 5:12. Collection regulars Frederic Tranchand (France), Manuel Merillas (Spain), and Abraham Hernandez (Mexico) had been again in fourth, fifth, and seventh in a surprisingly aggressive males’s group. Full outcomes (when out there).

XTERRA Path des Balcons d’Azur Mandelieu – Mandelieu la Napoule, France

It was the yr’s eleventh XTERRA Path Run World Collection contest with 47k and 23k races on the Path des Balcons d’Azur occasion. It was all French runners within the high spots. Marion Joly Testault and Benoît Galli gained the lengthy course in 4:48 and 4:04. Alexia Serpantié and Jenny Hausmann tied on the entrance of the ladies’s half marathon in 2:02, and Benjamin Berkoukchi gained the lads’s race in 1:40. Full outcomes.

Peterson Ridge Rumble – Sisters, Oregon

The race had three distances. Ashley Nordell and Evan Moreau went 5:32 and 4:50 on the 40-mile course, and Felice Kelly and Alex Fierar championed the marathon in 3:40 and three:38. Grace Perkins and Kyle Bodnyk had been greatest within the 20 miler in 2:30 and a pair of:13. Full outcomes.

Whiskey Basin Path Runs – Prescott, Arizona

Rachel Entrekin and Jordan Bramblett gained the 91k race in 9:07 and eight:02. Full outcomes.

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