July 22, 2024 – iRunFar

Huge mountains around the globe characteristic this week. There have been gorgeous races at Mont Blanc in France, the Eiger in Switzerland, and Colorado’s Sawatch Vary, amongst different excessive spots.

Observe alongside because the outcomes rundown skips across the globe.

La Montee Du Nid D’Aigle – St. Gervais, France

The World Mountain Working Affiliation World Cup is on a heater. It was their third race in as many weeks and fifth race of the yr. This race, translated as The Ascent to the Eagle’s Nest, was meant to run as much as the mountaineering begin of a Mont Blanc climb. Nonetheless, work to increase the Mont Blanc Tramway saved this yr’s race from that historic end.

The race went 20 kilometers with 1,850 meters of elevation acquire, or 12.4 miles and 6,070 ft.

Girls

The ladies’s podium was a repeat of final week’s Montemuro Vertical Run. Scout Adkin (U.Ok.) received once more, and Gloria Chebet (Kenya) and Philaries Kisang (Kenya) had been once more second and third. Adkin’s superior climbing become a 2:08 end. Chebet ran up in 2:12 and Kisang in 2:14.

Males

Kenyan runners swept the boys’s podium. Richard Omaya Atuya outpaced Josphat Kiprotich and Michael Selelo Saoli on the uphill course. The three had been nearly a minute aside, with 1:46, 1:47, and 1:48 end occasions.

After successful final yr’s Sierre-Zinal, Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) hasn’t raced like that since. He was fifth right here in 1:52.

Full outcomes.

The following WMRA World Cup race is Giir di Mont on July 28 in Italy — simply subsequent weekend!

Speedgoat Mountain Races by UTMB – Snowbird Resort, Utah

The 28k race, 20 miles with 6,561 ft of climbing, went on Friday, and the extra well-known 50k adopted on Saturday with 11,318 ft of elevation acquire.

28k

Simply over a minute was all that separated the entrance two ladies. Robyn Lesh edged out Sarah Carter for the win, with the pair working 3:34 and three:35, respectively. Third-place Jaycie Thomsen was a methods again in 3:54.

Second finally week’s U.S. Mountain Working Championships, Hawk Name was victorious in 3:13. The Friday race date labored for Name. He doubled again the subsequent day on Saturday and received the Spartan Utah Beast impediment course race and $2,500. Second- and third-place Cole Besser and Blaise Miller completed in 3:19 and three:22.

50k

iRunFar earlier recapped the 50k race in higher depth.

Girls

Jazmine Lowther (Canada) is on the street again from a long-term damage. She took the ladies’s crown in 6:15. Lowther rocketed up the ranks in 2022 after successful the Canyons by UTMB 100k, and this may’ve been her first extremely end because the February 2023 Transgrancanaria 128k.

Mali Noyes and Kodi Kleven made it shut. Noyes was second in 6:22, and Kleven was third in 6:24. Each are multi-time Speedgoat 50k finishers, with Noyes having been second additionally final yr and Kleven transferring as much as a podium end this yr.

Males

Put some respect on David Sinclair’s identify. He received the boys’s race in 4:57 and blew the doorways off the sphere. That’s manner up on Christian Allen’s 5:23 2023 successful time and higher than Adam Peterman’s 5:04 2021 course report. Sinclair has some historical past right here, too. He received the 2022 race in 5:09, was second in 2021 in 5:18, and received in 2018 in 5:27. Earlier this yr, Sinclair was second on the Silver State 50k and received the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 46k in late June.

Sam Hendry (Canada) and Scott Patterson had been second and third in 5:24 and 5:32. Former course report holder Peterman continues to search out his manner again from damage. He was sixth in 5:46.

Full outcomes.

Eiger Extremely Path – Grindelwald, Switzerland

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Eva Maria Sperger (Germany) bumped into bother late, and Hannah Allgood (U.S.) took the lead solely 4 kilometers from the end. Allgood received in 13:09. The course went for 63 miles and 21,981 ft of climbing. Sperger held on to second in 13:36, and Sandra Sevillano (Spain) was third in 14:45.

Solely the primary three males completed beneath 12 hours and had been fairly unfold out. Andreas Reiterer (Italy) was all proper in first at 11:05. Ramon Manetsch and Aleix Toda, each of Switzerland, had been second and third in 11:17 and 11:52. It was not less than Reiterer’s seventh extremely distance race of the yr.

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Individuals swept the highest spots of the 32-mile race with 10,170 ft of climbing. Sophia Laukli (U.S., dwelling in Norway) received a detailed one in opposition to Holly Web page (U.Ok.) and Kim Schreiber (Germany). The three leaders ran 5:51, 5:56, and 6:01, respectively.

The boys’s race was extra stretched out, and Jeshurun Small (U.S.) squeaked beneath the five-hour mark. Small, the boys’s winner, completed in 4:59:43. Paul Mathou (France) and Sindre Buraas (Norway) had been second and third in 5:07 and 5:12.

Full outcomes.

Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile – Salida, Colorado

The seventh-year race has some large views of Colorado’s Sawatch Vary and packs in 23,500 ft of climbing.

Each races had frontrunner duels that went late.

Girls

McKendree Hickory was the race’s daylong chief, however by mile 85, Laura Hansen had closed to inside 4 minutes of her. Hickory discovered one other gear to complete the race and stretched it out by the end. Hickory was victorious in 22:19. That’s manner up on Annie Hughes’s former 23:40 course report from 2022. It was solely Hickory’s second 100 miler after a sixth-place run finally yr’s Javelina 100 Mile.

Hansen held on to complete second in 23:06, additionally higher than the previous course finest, and Sarah Ostaszewski was third in 24:56.

Males

Chris Hammes adopted Alex Nichols by way of the center of the race and gained the final word lead close to mile 83. Hammes went on to win the race in 20:16 and Nichols was second in 21:06. Hammes’s time ranks second finest on the race behind Jimmy Elam’s 2023 19:42 course report. His is perhaps a much less acquainted identify on the high of the ranks, however Hammes was the highest American at UTMB in 2018, and he’s subsequent registered for the September 2024 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile.

Elan Lieber ran 21:45 for third.

Full outcomes.

Further Races and Runs

XTERRA European Path Run Championships – Arinsal, Andorra

The occasion’s 36k and 24k races had been a part of the XTERRA Path Run World Collection and paid out €5,200 in prize cash. Roser Español (Spain) and Martí Lázaro (Spain) received the difficult lengthy course contained in the Comapedrosa Pure Park in 6:42 and 4:45, and Laura Orgue (Spain) and Fabián Venero(Spain) led the half marathon course in 4:14 and three:08. The races had been technical mountain runs with nothing flat. Full outcomes.

Cascade Crest 100 Mile – Easton, Washington

Katherina Laan received the ladies’s race in 23:34, and Jesse Lang turned a five-time winner within the males’s race. Lang earlier received in 2022, 2018, 2016, and 2015, with a run of 19:08 this yr. Remarkably, Lang was solely seven seconds off of his 2022 successful time. Full outcomes.

Wy’east Trailfest 50k – Authorities Camp, Oregon

Sawyer Magnett ran 5:59 to beat the ladies’s subject and the six-hour mark by 10 seconds. Males’s winner Matt Seidel overtook late race chief Nick Hirdt on the ultimate downhill to win in 5:08. Hirdt was second in 5:10. Sunday’s 28k race was a part of the Golden Path Nationwide Collection for the U.S. and Canada. Jade Belzberg led the ladies in 2:41, and Carolina Alcorta and Mariah Bredal got here subsequent in 2:44 and a couple of:45. Liam Meirow was a minute higher than Darren Thomas within the males’s race at 2:13 to Thomas’s 2:14, and Max King was third in 2:16. Full outcomes.

Tahoe Rim Path – Carson Metropolis, Nevada 

Maria Man received her 100-mile debut in 24:06, and the 2021 males’s winner Grant Hotaling did it once more, however quite a bit quicker. Hotaling received this yr’s race in 18:31, and that was over two hours higher than what he ran to win in 2021.  The 56-mile winners had been Rachael Banton in 12:20 and Ben Tedore in 9:09, and 50k finest Jenny Jacox and Amaury Avatar ran 6:28 and 5:53. Full outcomes (when accessible).

Energy of 4 Path Run 50k – Aspen, Colorado

The course hyperlinks up Aspen’s 4 ski areas. Race winners Anne Flower and Ethan Kirk did it in 6:09 and 5:26, respectively. Tabor Hemming and Jacob Dewey received the occasion’s 25k race in 2:13 and 1:52. Full outcomes.

Barr Path Mountain Race – Manitou Springs, Colorado

The 12.6-mile race runs midway up Pikes Peak after which again down. Ashley Brasovan received the ladies’s race in 1:54. For the boys, each Joseph Grey and Jonathan Aziz present end occasions of 1:33:10, however Grey is listed first and Aziz second. Was it a tie, or did Grey get the lean? Full outcomes.

Ouray 100 Mile – Thistledown, Colorado

Protecting greater than 40,000 ft of elevation acquire over the course of 100 miles, Elizabeth Butler and Seth Orme took dwelling dominant wins on the Ouray 100 Mile with occasions of 35:28:46 and 29:25:54, respectively, with Orme’s run a course report. The comparatively delicate climate yr for the race solely noticed intermittent rain and thunderstorms within the San Juan Mountains, a far cry from the generally torrential climate that has shut down the highways within the space with mudslides in the course of the occasion up to now.

Different performances of notice embrace Howard Worton ending in 50:37:37 after lacking final yr’s cutoff by over six hours however having no selection however to get himself again and Simone Austin ending in 49:59:57 after DNFing on the climb-heavy course the prior 4 years. Monitoring.

Vol State 500k – Dorena Touchdown, Missouri

The 314-mile point-to-point run began on July 11 and at last completed on July 21, working from Missouri by way of Tennessee to Georgia. Shawna Wentlandt and Chris Varnadoe had been this yr’s first finishers in 4 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes (4:10:40), and three days, 11 hours, 29 minutes (3:11:29). Monitoring.

Jigger Johnson – Waterville Valley, New Hampshire

The Aravaipa Working race is known as for a legendary trapper all through the American East, and the race programs traverse the White Mountains. The 108-mile contest totaled a difficult 32,000 ft of elevation acquire, and the race was received by Katja Fink and Keith Nadeau in 37:47 and 30:27. The 50 miler was virtually as daunting with 16,000 ft of climbing and 4 4,000-foot summits. Larisa Dannis MacFadden and Mead Binhammer led the 50 milers in 15:05 and 13:10. Full outcomes.

Vermont 100 Mile – West Windsor, Vermont

The race was pandemic canceled in 2020 and 2021 and climate canceled in 2023, and so this was the one the second time within the final 5 years for the Vermont 100 Mile.

Sarah Gage received the 100-mile ladies’s race in addition to the race general in 17:19:45, whereas Spencer Imbach led the boys’s subject in 17:24. As an occasion placed on by Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports activities, the 100-mile noticed Ben Simanski win the male visually impaired class in 24:50, whereas Jon Maaroiri received the male mobility impaired class in 29:09. (There have been no corresponding ladies’s finishers in these classes.) In the meantime, John Geesler completed his twenty ninth Vermont 100 Mile.

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