Gobble gobble. Our post-American Thanksgiving version is filled with Kosciuszko, SaintéLyon, and València.
Pumpkin spice or peppermint spice, keep heat and skim up on all of it.
SaintéLyon – Saint-Étienne, France
The occasion is likely one of the largest in France, run at nighttime throughout 5 distances and with a relay possibility. The premier race is 82 kilometers (51 miles) and goes point-to-point to attach the cities of Saint-Étienne and Lyon.
Thomas Cardin (France) shook free from Ben Dhiman (U.S., lives in France) within the race’s second half to win in 5:52. Dhiman was second in 6:03 and Andrzej Witek (Poland) was third in 6:12.
Wanting again on Dhiman’s yr forward of potential “UltraRunning Journal” (North American) Ultrarunner of the 12 months voting, in 2024, the American ex-pat gained the Madeira Island Extremely-Path 115k, was second on the Andorra by UTMB 105k, third at Diagonale des Fous, and second at SaintéLyon, however dropped at UTMB.
Marie Goncalves (France) was one of the best within the girls’s race at 7:03, and Adeline Martin (France) was second in 7:10. Eleanor Davis (U.Ok.) was a bit off the lead tempo however completed third in 7:32.
Kosciuszko by UTMB – Snowy Mountains Nationwide Park, Australia
Kosci Miler
Yard all-star Sam Harvey (New Zealand) is fairly fast in different race codecs too. Harvey took the lads’s crown in 16:39 and that was approach forward of everybody else. Luke Nichols (Australia) was second in 19:09 and Aaron Smith (Australia) was third man in 20:51.
Sabrina Stanley (U.S.) steamrolled the ladies’s race in 19:51, and it wasn’t shut, both. Stephanie Auston (Australia) and Emily Gilmour-Walsh (Australia) had been second and third in 23:10 and 24:31, respectively.
Sabrina Stanley on her strategy to profitable the 2024 Extremely-Path Kosciuszko by UTMB 100 Mile. Picture: Tim Bardsley-Smith
Kosci 100
This one went 66 miles and with virtually 10,000 ft of climbing. Solely the primary three males got here in underneath 11 hours. Quinton Gill (Canada) was out entrance in 10:12, and Aussie runners Matt Gore and Josh Chugg had been subsequent in 10:31 and 10:37.
Abby Corridor (U.S.) led for all of it and was victorious within the girls’s race in 13:05. Juliette Soule (New Zealand) was an in depth second in 13:22, and Buha Bali (Australia) was third in 14:29.
Abby Corridor profitable the 2024 Kosci 100k by UTMB. Picture Tim Bardsley-Smith
Kosci 50
The 50k race had practically 1,000 starters. The lads’s podium was all Australian with Tait Hearps scoring a 64-second win over Ben St. Lawrence. The 2 got here via the end in 4:10 and 4:11, and Tom Driscoll took third in 4:21.
Kate Avery (U.Ok.) took the ladies’s crown in 4:43. Kimber Mattox (U.S.) noticed her first extremely motion in over a yr with a second place in 4:51, and Vilde Moser (Norway) was third in 5:00.
Tait Hearps profitable the Kosci 50 by UTMB. Picture: Sportograf
Quad Dipsea – Mill Valley, California
The double out-and-back totaled 28.4 miles, 9,200 ft of elevation achieve, and 1000’s of stairs on the well-known Dipsea Path. It was the race’s forty first yr.
Nick Handel was approach out entrance in 3:47 for the lads’s win. It was his third straight win. Subsequent yr, he could be a quad Quad Dipsea winner. Nolan Hosbein and Matthew Mitchell had been second and third in 4:15 and 4:22, respectively.
Girls’s winner Sylvie Abel gained the lead on the third interval and completed in 4:38. Abel simply missed the course document that dates to 2010 by three seconds. Ruby Lindquist and Zuzana Trnovcova completed in 4:51 and 4:53 for the following podium spots.
Sylvie Abel profitable the 2024 Quad Dipsea. Picture courtesy of race.
Further Races and Runs
Soochow 24-Hour Invitational – Taipei, Taiwan
I couldn’t find a very good translation or outcomes hyperlink, however social media factors to Phil Gore (Australia) and Camille Herron (U.S.) as race winners. Gore, a former Yard world record-holder, totaled 270.82k. That’s 168 miles, and Herron ran 263.00k, or 163.42 miles. It was a brand new observe world document. Herron’s private finest for twenty-four hours is 167.84 miles. Six weeks earlier, she ran 14:08 for 100 miles on the Pumpkin Holler Hunnerd.
València Marathon – València, Spain
València’s taken on the “Ciudad del Working” nickname and its half and full marathon races are hotspots for quick occasions. Within the girls’s race, Stella Chesang (Uganda) was second in 2:18:26. In 2015, she was the World Mountain Working Champion. Comrades Marathon course document holder Gerda Steyn (South Africa) ran 2:28:14 to complete twentieth. Full outcomes.
3 Días Path Ibiza – Ibiza, Spain
Ibiza’s actually not finest recognized for its operating, however the three-day competition had some aggressive races. Miguel Heras and Eli Gordón gained the mixed three-day occasion with 8:22 and 10:05 totals throughout 93k of racing. Full outcomes.
Seattle Ghost 50k – Seattle, Washington
Zach Rowland and Christine Mosley completed on prime in 4:09 and 4:31. Full outcomes.
The Derby 50k – Ellerbe, North Carolina
Joel Shores scored a brand new males’s course document in 3:14 and Michelle Grey gained the ladies’s race in 4:58. Full outcomes.
Name for Feedback
- How’d your turkey trot go?
- Did you see different path runners or ultrarunners within the València Marathon outcomes?
- Southern Utah will get a whole lot of consideration, however yesterday I used to be at Dinosaur Nationwide Monument in northeastern Utah and, wow, that’s actually spectacular too. Have you ever been?