This week we’re all about Arizona. The Black Canyon 100k and 50k had been excessive spots and the Mesa Half Marathon had some star energy too.
It’s also possible to take a look at our race protection from the weekend:
Black Canyon 100k – Mayer, Arizona
Yearly quicker. Each the ladies’s and males’s course information went down on a quick day within the desert.
This 12 months’s girls’s profitable time was an unimaginable half-hour higher than the outdated course report. After which final 12 months Hayden Hawks set the boys’s course report and went on to win the “UltraRunning Journal” (North American) Ultrarunner of the Yr award. Even just a little identified second-place finisher went quicker than that this 12 months although.
The race was each a World Path Main and a Golden Ticket race with three entries to this 12 months’s Western States 100 awarded to prime finishers.
The beginning of the 2025 Black Canyon 100k. All images: World Path Majors
Girls’s Outcomes
There’s some magic within the Arizona desert for Riley Brady.
Brady chased down a quick begin from Mary Denholm to share the lead close to mile 24, dropped Denholm quickly thereafter, after which led alone for all the race’s second half. Brady completed in 8:16 and it was a brand new course report. That’s extremely virtually half-hour higher than Keely Henninger’s 2023 earlier greatest. Brady earlier received a Golden Ticket on the October 2024 Javelina Jundred, additionally in Arizona.
Riley Brady, the 2025 Black Canyon 100k girls’s winner. Brady identifies as non-binary and competes within the girls’s race.
Tara Dower dropped beneath the outdated course greatest too, and confirmed some spectacular drop-down velocity after final 12 months’s Appalachian Path Quickest Identified Time. Dower completed in 8:25.
EmKay Sullivan avenged a DNF ultimately 12 months’s race to complete third in 8:48.
With Brady having already entered Western States, the third Golden Ticket fell to fourth-place Lin Chen (China). She completed in 8:50.
Tara Dower, the 2025 Black Canyon 100k second-place lady.
Girls’s Prime 20
- Riley Brady – 8:16:18
- Tara Dower – 8:25:08
- EmKay Sullivan – 8:48:50
- Lin Chen (China) – 8:50:40
- Abby Corridor – 8:52:35
- Shea Aquilano – 8:53:48
- Erin Clark – 8:57:47
- Amanda Stalwick – 8:58:04
- Lauren Puretz – 9:08:38
- Madison Liechty – 9:11:02
- Emilie Mann – 9:12:18
- Sarah Gage – 9:24:11
- Jessie George – 9:37:46
- Annie Hughes – 9:43:21
- Heather Jackson – 9:45:49
- Michaela Lishakova – 9:47:43
- Aroa Sio (Spain) – 9:51:24
- Lindsay Allison – 9:53:08
- Caitlin Schindel – 9:58:23
- Sarah Allaben – 9:59:35
Riley Brady identifies as non-binary however competes within the girls’s division.
Key drops included Valérie Arsenault, Mary Denholm, Sawyer Magnett, Kristina Mascarenas, and Jane Maus.
Males’s Outcomes
Seth Ruhling leveled up. Ruhling ran down longtime chief Eli Hemming late and received in 7:24. Ruhling broke into the game with the primary of two JFK 50 Mile wins in 2019, however this Black Canyon course report is actually higher than something he’s accomplished earlier than. He’s now anticipated to make his 100-mile debut at Western States.
Seth Ruhling, the 2025 Black Canyon 100k males’s winner.
Little-known Will Murray was a shock runner-up in 7:26. Murray, age 30, was fourth on the 2024 Leadville Path 100 Mile. A highschool math and baseball coach, Murray’s solely been operating ultras since 2023.
Joe McConaughy earned the third prized Golden Ticket in 7:31 with an enormous come-from-behind second-half push. It was McConaughy’s eighth try at incomes a Golden Ticket.
Eli Hemming led for a lot of the 2025 Black Canyon 100k, however in the end fell again to complete fourth.
Males’s Prime 20
- Seth Ruhling – 7:24:55
- Will Murray – 7:26:53
- Joe McConaughy – 7:31:37
- Eli Hemming – 7:32:41
- Can-Hua Luo (China) – 7:36:38
- Elliot Cardin (Canada) – 7:48:21
- Gavin Prior – 7:53:11
- Canyon Woodward – 7:54:16
- Blake Slattengren – 7:54:18
- Ferdinand Airault (France) – 7:54:27
- Zach Perrin – 7:55:48
- Tyler Fox – 8:09:43
- Cole Campbell – 8:10:35
- Darren Thomas – 8:11:04
- Tony Rodriguez – 8:16:34
- Tim Nooney – 8:23:08
- Matt Belus – 8:34:36
- Brandon Gardiner – 8:34:18
- Jean-Philippe Thibodeau (Canada) – 8:35:49
- Cody Jordan – 8:39:27
Notable drops included Makai Clemons, JP Giblin, Mark Hammond, Jared Hazen, Ryan Raff, and Erik Sorenson.
Black Canyon 50k – Mayer, Arizona
Final 12 months’s 60k race gave strategy to a brand new 50k distance, and it was a part of the first-year World Path Majors Quick Collection. The 50k was a day after the marquee 100k race.
Girls
Allison Baca led all the girls’s race and received in 3:45.
Second-place Caroline Alcorta got here by way of nicely beneath 4 hours too at 3:53, and Robyn Lesh was simply over that mark in third at 4:00.
The highest 5 girls had been:
- Allison Baca – 3:45:09
- Caroline Alcorta – 3:53:37
- Robyn Lesh – 4:00:38
- Imogen Ainsworth – 4:05:22
- Kristin Schindler – 4:09:33
Allison Baca, the 2025 Black Canyon 50k girls’s winner.
Males
Jeshurun Small took the win in 3:22. Eric Lagerstrom and Chris Myers overtook early pacesetter Brian Whitfield late as nicely to complete second and third in 3:25 and three:30.
The highest 5 males had been:
- Jeshurun Small – 3:22:52
- Eric Lagerstrom – 3:25:41
- Chris Myers – 3:30:50
- Brian Whitfield – 3:34:16
- Chris Leiferman – 3:36:48
Extra Races and Runs
Coyote Wall Path Races 55k – White Salmon, Washington
Race winners Marianne Wilburn and Peter Buckley completed in 5:46 and 4:33. Full outcomes.
Mesa Half Marathon – Mesa, Arizona
The half marathon is a quick course going point-to-point and with a internet downhill. The race paid $1,000 for the win with cash three deep. Lauren Gregory received the ladies’s half in 69:12 and Allie Ostrander was fourth in 71:10. Tabor Hemming was just a little additional again in eleventh in 76:21. 50-mile world record-holder Courtney Olsen ran 78:34.
(In 2023, Ostrander was suspended for 4 months after testing optimistic for canrenone, a metabolite of spironolactone, after it was decided that she mistakenly took the drug with out first acquiring a World Anti-Doping Company Therapeutic Use Exemption.)
Within the marathon, Addie Bracy was fourth lady in 2:49 and 24-hour all-star Nick Coury ran 2:32 for twelfth.
Operating Up for Air – Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah
There have been six-, 12-, and 24-hour occasions for the charity collection run up and down Grandeur Peak. Anna Fisher and Benjamin Stout did 4 and 5 laps in six hours, respectively, with 5:28 and 5:50 end occasions. Sarah Humble went seven laps within the 12-hour race and Tyler Inexperienced and Zachary Garner did 9 in 11:28 and 11:38, respectively. Full outcomes.
Rocky 50 – Huntsville, Texas
Every week after the Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile, they had been again at Huntsville State Park for 2 shorter races. Within the 50 miler, Rosie Rigas and Joshua Getega had been tops in 8:58 and eight:17 and within the 50k it was Nicole Bitter and Jordan West main in 4:26 and 4:16. Full outcomes.
Algonquin 50k – Pocomoke Metropolis, Maryland
It took an alliterative title to win this 12 months’s race. Maria Miller and Darrel Dorsey led the group in 4:39 and 4:15. Full outcomes.
Mill Stone 50k – Fort Mill, South Carolina
Heidi Sides and John Olar had been the race’s quickest in 4:35 and 4:21. Full outcomes.
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