A course file on the Leadville 100 Mile, the USATF 50k Path Nationwide Championships, and the most recent from the Cirque Collection are amongst this week’s go-to highlights.
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Leadville 100 Mile – Leadville, Colorado
Ladies
Mary Denholm raced throughout the sky in 18:23. She was over three hours higher than everybody else, and it was the race’s second-fastest time in historical past, trailing solely Ann Trason’s 18:06 mark that dates to 1994. Denholm’s been unbeatable in Leadville this summer season. She gained the Leadville Path Marathon and the Silver Rush 50 Mile, additionally in Leadville, in June and July. Denholm can also be a two-time Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier, however this may’ve been her 100-mile debut.
Zoë Rom and Julie Wright respectively completed second and third in 21:27 and 21:48 after an in depth, all-day race.
Mary Denholm takes the win on the 2024 Leadville 100 Mile. Photograph: Life Time
Males
David Roche stands alone on the lads’s all-time chart. Roche rewrote historical past with a 15:26 first-place run. That bettered Matt Carpenter’s legendary 19-year course file by 16 minutes. As with girls’s winner Denholm, Roche too gained this yr’s Silver Rush 50 Mile, and this positively was his debut on the 100-mile distance.
iRunFar earlier detailed Roche’s race with key splits.
David Roche profitable the 2024 Leadville 100 Mile and setting a brand new course file. Photograph: Life Time
Two-time winner Adrian MacDonald ran sooner than he ever had earlier than, however his 15:56 run was solely good for second this yr behind Roche’s heroics. Ryan Sullivan was third in 17:21.
Ryan Montgomery was first non-binary runner, third total, in 16:09.
Headlands 50k – Muir Seashore, California
The occasion was the USATF 50k Path Nationwide Championships and there was a $10,000 prize purse with $2,500 to every of the winners. The coastal race climbed 6,500 ft.
Lindsay Allison was out entrance within the girls’s race with a 4:30 end time. Sylvie Abel and Sarah Biehl pushed to second and third in 4:36 and 4:45, respectively. Abel was third and Biehl was second in final yr’s race.
The lads’s race was a blowout. Cole Campbell completed in 3:40, 17 minutes sooner than everybody else. It was the race’s second-fastest end in its lengthy historical past. The 25-year-old subsequent has the IMTUF 100 Mile in Idaho on his calendar. Finnian Jacobson-Schulte and Andrew Rylaarsdam have been second and third in 3:57 and three:59.
Tatra Sky Marathon – Kościelisko, Poland
The race was meant to be the yr’s sixth Golden Path World Collection race, but it surely was canceled on account of climate. The beginning time was first adjusted and the ladies’s race did begin in heavy rain. The group was stopped 11k into the race although and the lads by no means began. Lightning on the race’s excessive sections in the end led to the entire cancellation.
The subsequent Golden Path World Collection is the September 14 Headlands 27k within the U.S.
Thunder and lightning with heavy rainfall prompted the Tatra Sky Marathon to be canceled 11k into the ladies’s race. Photograph: Golden Path World Collection / Tatra Sky Marathon / Colin Olivero / @rising.story
Extra Races and Runs
Run Larapinta – Alice Springs, Australia
The four-day, four-stage race marked its tenth yr. There have been once more each lengthy and brief course choices that totaled 128k and 83k, or 80 and 52 miles. Jessica Jenke and Ariarn Huston each ran the lengthy race in 15:39, lower than a second aside, maybe a meant-for tie, and Yun Phua was the primary man within the lengthy race at 12:48. Gillian Turnbull and Brett Godden gained the brief choice in 10:41 and 10:49, with Turnbull the general winner. Full outcomes.
Runners having fun with the ultimate stage of the 2024 Run Larapinta. Photograph: Forktail
Squamish 50 Mile – Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
The occasion has each 50 mile and 50k races, and the choice to double. Priscilla Forgie and Marcus Ribi gained the 50 miler in 8:27 and seven:17, and Jade Belzberg and Alexandre Ricard have been tops within the 50k in 5:16 and 4:32. The occasions served because the Canadian Path Working Nationwide Championships 50 Mile and 50k. Full outcomes.
Backcountry Rise – Toutle, Washington
Dawn Racing’s 50k topped Elisabeth Phillips-Jones and Mino Giunta as this yr’s winners in 6:34 and 5:05. Full outcomes.
Bulldog 50k – Calabasas, California
The race dates again to 1992. Eva Frieden and Anthony Fagundes gained this yr in 4:46 and three:30, and Fagundes’s time was a brand new course file. He beat Chris Myers’s 2022 mark by solely 10 seconds. Full outcomes.
Lean Horse 100 Mile – Custer, South Dakota
Jane Murowski and Daven Oskvig went 20:47 and 18:05 on the entrance of the 100-mile race. Full outcomes.
Cirque Collection – Alta, Utah
The yr’s fourth Cirque Collection race went 7.1 miles with 2,545 ft of climbing. Race winners collected $1,000 every. Rachel Drake was nearly a minute higher than Giselle Slotboom for the ladies’s crown. The 2 ran 1:08 and 1:09, and Alexa Aragon was third in 1:12. Mason Coppi was on the high of the lads’s podium in 58:19, and Talon Hull and Andrew Knapik have been second and third in 1:01 and 1:04. Full outcomes.
Mid Mountain 50k – Park Metropolis, Utah
Many of the race is run on the Mid Mountain Path. Kristin Johnson and Thomas George led the sphere in 4:28 and three:46. Full outcomes.
Cloudcroft Extremely 53k – Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Sari Stolp and Henry Harris gained in 6:39 and 4:57. Harris’s time was a brand new course file for the seventh-year race. Full outcomes.
Transrockies Run – Buena Vista, Colorado
The three- and six-day stage run totaled 116 miles on a one-way run from Buena Vista to Beavercreek, Colorado. There have been each solo and two-person workforce races. The ladies’s solo six-day race was among the many best with the ladies ending second, third, and fourth total. Emilie Mann (Canada) beat out Shea Aquilano and Brittany Peterson for the win. The three totaled 18:35, 18:49, and 19:19. Solely males’s winner Brandon Miller and his 16:39 run was forward of the ladies’s podium. Full outcomes.
Marquette Path 50 Mile – Marquette, Michigan
The races are run in far northern Michigan. Lily Medina and Benjamin Drexler gained the 50-mile race in 11:34 and 9:04, and Kate Dohnal and Tyler Kobilarcsik gained the 50k in 5:32 and 4:22. Full outcomes.
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