There have been longtime races and first-year races just like the Quito Path by UTMB, and brief stuff just like the FlettaTrail and 100 milers like Angeles Crest.
It’s one other various set for our weekly rundown.
FlettaTrail Malonno – Malonno, Italy
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The uphill race climbed 1,000 meters over 3.4 kilometers in distance, and no one does it higher than Andrea Mayr (Austria). Mayr gained right here for the seventh time, topping out in 38:28. She was just a little over a minute again from her personal course file from 2023. Third in 2023, Philaries Kisang (Kenya) moved up one spot to complete second in 40:20, and Susanna Saapunki (Finland) was third in 40:45.
Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) gained the boys’s race in 34:42. That’s over two minutes again of Patrick Kipngeno’s course file run from 2023. Italian runners Tiziano Moia and Henri Aymonod went up second and third in 33:26 and 33:43.
FlettaTrail
A day later, the up-and-down race went 21k with 1,100 meters of elevation achieve, and celebrated its 61st 12 months. Orienteering professional Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) led the ladies 1:38 and took 30 seconds off the earlier course greatest. Philaries Kisang doubled again from the vertical race to once more end second in 1:41, and Vivien Bonzi (Italy) was third in 1:43.
Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) raced for the third weekend in a row, and identical to final week, gained once more. He champed the boys’s race in 1:27, and Alric Petit (France) and Marco Moletto (Italy) had been second and third in 1:31 and 1:32.
Angeles Crest 100 Mile – Wrightwood, California
The longtime race had taken a couple of cancellations lately, together with final 12 months when injury from the 2020 Bobcat Fireplace and subsequent rainstorms left the course out of attain.
Megan Eckert was the category of the sphere. She ripped by way of the course in 22:02. Sarah McMahon and Yumi Vielpeau had been second and third in 26:25 and 27:49.
Second in 2022, Michael Eastburn was awarded bib #1, and he backed it up with a first-place 18:49 males’s end. Clark Messman and Rene Dorantes had been second and third in 19:11 and 19:54.
Waldo 100k – Oakridge, Oregon
Air high quality from regional wildfires threatened the race’s twenty third version, nevertheless it went off in a giant loop from the Willamette Cross Ski Space. 5 climbs totaled greater than 11,000 ft of elevation achieve.
The highest seven girls all got here by way of below 13 hours. On the entrance, Molly Schmelzle overtook Brianna Grigsby simply over mile 50 and gained in 12:04. Grigsby stayed shut and was second in 12:13. Third-place Mandi Goudie was proper there too in 12:23.
Molly Schmelzle on her strategy to profitable the 2024 Waldo 100k. Photograph courtesy of Waldo 100k
Males’s winner Casey Weinman put a giant hole on the sphere and completed in 10:18, 36 minutes forward of everybody else. Second- and third-place Maxwell Atkins and Eric Colton ran 10:54 and 10:56. Colton simply edged out Luke Garten by 53 seconds for that final podium spot.
Casey Weinman, the 2024 Waldo 100k males’s winner. Photograph: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Images
KAT 100 by UTMB – Fieberbrunn, Austria
Endurance Path
The 50 miler totaled almost 16,000 ft of elevation achieve on muddy trails within the Kitzbühel Alps. German runners took 4 of the primary 5 spots with solely the host nation Austria breaking apart that group. Sylvie Geißler (Germany) was victorious in 11:50, Michaela Pilat (Austria) and Karola Rennhack (Germany) had been second and third in 11:57 and 12:31.
Males’s winner Daniel Jung (Italy) completed in 9:40. Tomas Macecek (Czech Republic) and Goar Lopetegui (Spain) had been second and third in 9:59 and 10:06, respectively.
Marathon Path
The 31-mile race gained over 10,000 ft of elevation on its mountain route. Valerie Arsenault (Canada) escaped Claudia Chmielowska (Poland) for the ladies’s win in 6:16. Chmielowska was second in 6:20, and Anke Friedl (Germany) was additional again in third at 6:37.
Within the males’s race, Hayden Hawks (U.S.) gained a squeaker over Fredrik Bruseth (Norway) and Stian Dahl (Norway). The three frontrunners had been lower than six minutes aside on the end. Hawks gained in 5:00, Bruseth was second in 5:02, and Dahl was third in 5:06.
A runner amidst the sumptuous surroundings at one of many 2024 KAT 100 by UTMB races. Photograph: UTMB
Extra Races and Runs
Fjällmaraton – Vålådalen, Sweden
It was the occasion’s twentieth 12 months, and it’s once more occurring over eight days. Lina El Kott (Sweden) and Eskil Kinneberg (Sweden) gained the 45k race in 4:58 and three:47. Full outcomes.
Quito Path by UTMB – Quito, Ecuador
The occasion’s lengthy race went 46 miles with nearly 15,000 ft of elevation achieve, and each the ladies’s and males’s contests had been shut. Fernanda Maciel (Brazil) led the ladies in 11:13, and Carolina Tania Diaz (Argentina) and Lidia Chalacan (Colombia) each ran 11:20 however with Diaz 22 seconds in entrance. Tyler Andrews (U.S.) gained the boys’s race forward of Remigio Huaman (Peru). Andrews and Quispe ran 8:32 and eight:38, respectively. Marcelo Segovia (Ecuador) was a distant third in 9:45. Full outcomes.
Canadian Loss of life Race – Grande Cache, Alberta, Canada
Final 12 months, Kim Cameron gained the 42k Close to Loss of life Marathon right here, and this 12 months she led the 118k (73 mile) race in 15:25. Matthew Schneider was the primary man on the 118k course in 14:01. The lengthy course hits three mountain summits, crosses a serious river, and 17,000 ft of elevation achieve. Amanda Phillips and Justin Watkins gained the Close to Loss of life Marathon in 4:58 and 4:07. Watkins’s time was a brand new course file. Full outcomes.
The beginning of the 2024 Canadian Loss of life Race. Photograph: Canadian Loss of life Race
Volcanic 50k – Cougar, Washington
The race traversed the paths round Mt. St. Helens. Sarah Allaben dominated the ladies’s run in 6:10. Jaclyn Noshay and Jessica Collentine had been second and third in 6:58 and seven:03. The lads’s race was notably shut with lower than eight minutes splitting the primary three. Kyle Bodnyk was one of the best of the group in 6:00, and Nathan Morgan and Chris McQuivey had been second and third in 6:04 and 6:08. Full outcomes.
Sarah Allaben, the 2024 Volcanic 50k girls’s winner. Photograph: Full Ship Media
Kyle Bodnyk, the 2024 Volcanic 50k males’s winner. Photograph: Full Ship Media
Hood Hundred – Mt. Hood, Oregon
The race was run lollipop type on one of the best of Mt. Hood’s trails, and with almost 18,000 ft of elevation achieve. Race leaders Catherine LeClair and Jace Ives knocked it out in 23:44 and 17:25. Full outcomes.
Badger Path Races – Belleville, Wisconsin
The occasion included 4 extremely distances from 100 miles to 5ok, partly on the Badger State Path. 100-mile winners Julie Uychiat and Steve Byhre completed in 23:31 and 20:31, and within the 100k Rachel Ragona was the general winner in 9:11. Males’s 100k champ Ian Krynski completed in 12:31. Full outcomes.
Race the Cog – Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
The race went 2.75 miles to the highest of Mt. Washington towards a practice. Amber Ferreira scored an upset win over this 12 months’s U.S. Vertical nationwide champ Lauren Gregory. Ferreira topped out in 50:24 and Gregory was second in 52:35. Remi Leroux (Canada) gained the boys’s race forward of Eric Blake. The 2 hit the highest in 41:28 and 43:55. Full outcomes.
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