April 21, 2025 – iRunFar

Hippity, hoppity, it was Easter weekend, for individuals who have a good time.

There’s no golden egg right here, however we’ve acquired the beginning of this yr’s Golden Path World Collection, extra from the Skyrunner World Collection, and several other different races worldwide. Hop on!

Kobe Path – Kobe, Japan

It was the occasion’s second yr on the Golden Path World Collection, and this yr’s race marked the beginning of the 2025 sequence. The race was run on a four-loop, 21-kilometer course that totaled 2,109 meters of climbing. That’s 13 miles and nearly 7,000 ft of achieve.

Males

The lads began the race 20 minutes after the ladies, and Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) rocketed to the lead on the early downhill stair sections. As they took the second loop, uphill all-star Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) climbed into the lead and comfortably stayed in entrance the remainder of the way in which. Kipngeno received for the second-straight yr with a 2:29 end.

Behind Kipngeno, Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) held off Bogdan Damian (Romania) for second. The 2 each completed in 2:31 and solely three seconds aside. Eighth right here in 2024, Damian had his best race but on the circuit. Early pacesetter Hadorn was fourth.

This yr’s races won’t have been as deep as final yr with a number of sequence regulars absent. There was almost a 20-minute hole between the first- and Tenth-place finishers, whereas a yr in the past the unfold was 11 minutes.

The highest 10 males have been:

1. Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 2:29:46
2. Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:31:53
3. Bogdan Damian (Romania) – 2:31:56
4. Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) – 2:33:45
5. Ryunosuke Omi (Japan) – 2:35:49
6. Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 2:37:21
7. Theo Bourgeois (France) – 2:39:38
8. Koken Ogasawara (Japan) – 2:39:48
9. Ruy Ueda (Japan) – 2:46:45
10. Juho Ylinen (Finland) – 2:49:11

Girls

Second in 2024, Sara Alonso (Spain) aced this yr’s run in 2:53. Alonso was almost three minutes higher than everybody else. Mădălina Florea (Romania) overcame closely taped quadriceps to complete second in 2:59, and Malen Osa (Spain) was third in 3:02.

Early chief and race favourite Joyce Njeru (Kenya) was pushed again to sixth after a mid-race mistaken flip.

As within the males’s race, the ladies’s race appeared much less deep than in 2024. There was a 34-minute window between the first- and Tenth-place finishers, and that compares to solely 14 minutes in 2024.

The highest 10 ladies have been:

1. Sara Alonso (Spain) – 2:53:57
2. Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 2:59:46
3. Malen Osa (Spain) – 3:02:10
4. Takako Takamura (Japan) – 3:02:55
5. Sara Willhoit (U.Ok.) – 3:17:15
6. Joyce Njeru (Kenya) – 3:21:19
7. Honoka Akiyama (Japan) – 3:21:55
8. Yoshimi Tanaka (Japan) – 3:24:28
9. Betty Bergstrand (U.Ok.) – 3:26:19
10. Courtney Coppinger (U.S.) – 3:27:57

Full outcomes.

The tour subsequent strikes to China for the April 26 Nice Wall 24k.

Skyrace des Matheysins – La Mure, France

Snow and excessive winds stored the course off its most technical ridge and steepest climb, however the race nonetheless ran on a 27k course with over 2,000 meters of climbing, and it was the yr’s fifth Skyrunner World Collection race.

Males

Luca Del Pero (Italy) and Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) have been the boys to beat on the Skyrunner World Collection this yr. Del Pero had received two of the primary 4 races and Delorenzi was second in those self same two races. Each have been upset right here although by Alex Oberbacher (Italy). Oberbacher gapped the sector on the primary climb and completed 90 seconds forward of everybody in 2:25:50.

Solely 17 seconds separated the second- by way of fourth-place finishers and Delorenzi led this chase group in 2:27:20. Jan Torrella (Spain) was third in 2:27:28 and sequence chief Del Pero was fourth in 2:27:37.

The lads’s prime 5 was:

1. Alex Oberbacher (Italy) – 2:25:50
2. Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) – 2:27:20
3. Jan Torrella (Spain) – 2:27:28
4. Luca Del Pero (Italy) – 2:27:37
5. Frédéric Tranchand (France) – 2:28:05

Girls

The ladies’s race wasn’t as shut on the prime. Lucille Germain (France) took the lead on the race’s first climb and pulled away towards a dominant 2:51:20 win.

Julie Roux (France) and Marta Martínez (Spain) have been second and third in 2:59:39 and three:02:04. It was Martínez’s third sequence race on the yr and he or she earned factors to leap to the highest of the early sequence rankings.

Spanish and French runners took the primary 9 end spots.

The ladies’s prime 5 was:

1. Lucille Germain (France) – 2:51:20
2. Julie Roux (France) – 2:59:39
3. Marta Martínez (Spain) – 3:02:04
4. Greta García (Spain) – 3:02:13
5. Patricia Pineda (Spain) – 3:03:13

Full outcomes.

The Skyrunner World Collection retains going subsequent weekend on the Penang Skyrace in Malaysia.

Further Races and Runs

Belfast to Dublin Extremely – Dublin, Eire

Regardless of heavy rain all through, Mark Walker (U.Ok.) received in a speedy 16:42 and Jo Zakrzewski (U.Ok.) set a brand new ladies’s course report in 17:15 on the 107-mile race. Full outcomes (when out there).

Squak Mountain 50k – Issaquah, Washington

DJ Remi (Canada) was the boys’s winner in 6:22, however Isabella Poulos received general in 5:44. Full outcomes.

Path Combine 50k – Rockford, Minnesota

Girls’s winner Breanne Hegg squeaked beneath the 5-hour mark with a 4:59 end and males’s chief Ted Heikkila was nearly half-hour higher than everybody else with 3:40 on the clock. Full outcomes.

Loud Thunder 50 – Illinois Metropolis, Illinois

Nate Truckenbrod scored a brand new 50-mile course report in 7:55 and Ellyse Ungs received the ladies’s race in 9:53. The 50k winners Brent Blanchard and Nora Bosslet ran 5:16 and 6:15. Full outcomes.

Traprock 50k – Simsburg, Connecticut

It was the race’s sixteenth yr and James Boeding and Lila Gaudrault received in 5:18 and 6:49. Full outcomes.

Name for Feedback

Each 50k world report holders Des Linden and CJ Albertson are racing at the moment’s Boston Marathon, and so too is 2015 IAU 50k World Championships fifth-placer Jesse Davis. After which there’s 2:05 man and 2017 World Mountain Operating champion Victor Kiplangat (Uganda) on the elite entrant checklist too. What different trail- and ultra-adjacent runners might be at Boston?