Spring is right here, and racing is properly below approach. The Manner Too Cool 50k was the weekend’s hotspot, however there have been a lot of different races across the U.S. and elsewhere too.
Manner Too Cool 50k – Cool, California
After final 12 months’s weather-related cancelation, runners got here again for the race’s thirty fifth 12 months.
Ladies
Jennifer Schmidt and Emily Clarke dueled on the entrance of the ladies’s race. Schmidt gained in 3:53 and Clarke was second in 3:54. The 2 frontrunners have been solely 51 seconds aside. Schmidt subsequent goes to the Gorge Waterfalls 100k in April and Clarke has numerous shorter races just like the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k and Mammoth Trailfest 26k on her calendar.
Careth Arnold was third in 4:09.
Jennifer Schmidt, the 2025 Manner Too Cool 50k feminine winner. All images: Joel Corcoran
The ladies’s prime 5 was:
- Jennifer Schmidt – 3:53
- Emily Clarke – 3:54
- Careth Arnold – 4:09
- Rachel Lemcke – 4:35
- Katelyn Kerins – 4:44
Emily Clarke, the 2025 Manner Too Cool 50k second feminine.
Males
Hans the destroyer Troyer took the lads’s crown 3:19. Finnian Jacobson-Schulte completed second in 3:26, and Tommy Sullivan was third on the rostrum in 3:28.
The highest 14 males all ran below 4 hours.
Finnian Jacobson-Schulte, the 2025 Manner Too Cool 50k second man. Lead man Hans Troyer was sadly too quick for the digicam.
The boys’s prime 5 was:
- Hans Troyer – 3:19
- Finnian Jacobson-Schulte – 3:26
- Tommy Sullivan – 3:28
- Mario Mendoza – 3:29
- Jimmy McCue – 3:43
Extremely-Path Xiamen by UTMB – China
LXM 100k
Over 700 runners began the 65-mile race and its 18,251 toes of climbing. It was an all-Chinese language podium in each the ladies’s and males’s races.
Ying Li, Li-Ping Wang, and Wen-Li Jiang went one-two-three in 14:20, 14:37, and 14:45 for the ladies.
Males’s leaders Ji Duo and Jia-Ju Zhao seem to have completed in a tie, each clocking precisely 11:27:22 finishes. Pei-Quan You was a distant third in 12:36.
MXM 50k
Chinese language runners additionally swept the rostrum of the 33-mile race.
The highest three ladies all completed contained in the top-10 general. Fu-Zhao Xiang was first in 6:05, and Wen-Rong Zheng and Ti Ren completed subsequent in 6:35 and 6:43.
Jian-Jian Yang gapped Min Qi for the lads’s win in 5:22, 10 minutes higher than his chaser. Sheng Zhang was third in 5:41.
Extra Races and Runs
Motatapu – Queenstown, New Zealand
Kiwis Hannah Wall and Dean Stewart gained the 52k race in 6:57 and 6:30. Additionally each from New Zealand, Marina Ferguson and Benje Patterson have been quickest within the path marathon in 3:28 and three:04. Full outcomes.
Tokyo Marathon – Tokyo, Japan
Fourth finally 12 months’s Transgrancanaria traditional race, Dominika Stelmach (Poland) did this winter-spring a little bit completely different. She was the thirty first girl in 2:43. Full outcomes.
Iditarod Path Invitational – McGrath, Alaska
The 350-mile race finishes in McGrath and 1,000-mile opponents go all the best way to Nome. This 12 months’s race was marked by heat climate and little snow. The 1,000 milers have fairly a methods to go, however within the 350-mile race, Stacy Fisk and Melanie Vriesman are collectively on the entrance late into the ladies’s race. Fisk and Vriesman are two of simply three within the race, and Scott Hoberg completed first for the lads in 126:18. That’s 5 days, six hours, and 18 minutes. Full outcomes.
Napa Valley Marathon – Napa, California
Garrett Corcoran left the paths to win the Napa Valley Marathon in 2:15:48. Carolina Garcia gained for the ladies in 2:43:24. Each picked up a case of 12 bottles of wine for his or her efforts. Full outcomes.
Grandmaster Ultras – Mesquite, Nevada
Tops within the 100-mile race have been Sandra Spence and Patrick Oborn in 28:07 and 19:59. Full outcomes.
Monument Valley Extremely – Monument Valley, Utah
Race winners Karen Krob and Charles Atsye took the 50k course in 5:52 and 5:04. Full outcomes.
Crimson Mountain 50k – St. George, Utah
Laura Berglind and Braden Perry gained in 4:49 and three:54. Full outcomes.
Mississippi Path – Laurel, Mississippi
Bethany Madson gained the 100 miler in 19:08. She completed second general and set a brand new course file too. Jackson Wolf gained the lads’s 100 miler in 17:24, and that was a brand new course file too for the third-year 100 miler. The 50 miler goes approach again to 1980 and this 12 months’s winners have been Greta Conlon and Joshua Moore in 9:31 and 5:50. Full outcomes.
Music Metropolis Path Extremely 50k – Pegram, Tennessee
A small group of 50k finishers was led by Jewly Hight and Ryan Fina in 5:46 and 4:54. Full outcomes.
Tremendous Bull Path Championships – Wooster, Ohio
The ninth-year race had a $1,300 prize purse throughout three distances. Amelia Kvalheim and Alec Cline gained the 50k in 6:27 and 4:19, respectively. Full outcomes.
Bare Bavarian 40 Mile – Leesport, Pennsylvania
Kalei Hering and John Dragon gained the race at Blue Marsh Lake in 6:07 and 5:11, respectively. Full outcomes.
USATF Street Half Marathon Nationwide Championships – Atlanta, Georgia
Just a few weeks after operating 1:16 on the Mesa Half Marathon in Arizona, Tabor Hemming popped a 1:14:05 end for 74th place. Full outcomes.
Gate River 15k – Jacksonville, Florida
Age 36, Andy Wacker continues to be operating quick. He completed ninth in 43:52 in opposition to a nationally-competitive discipline. Wacker was 4 years older than anybody else within the prime 10. Full outcomes.
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