On Saturday at Tunnel Hill 100 in Vienna, Sick., Toronto’s Julie Hamulecki crushed each the Canadian girls’s 100-mile and 12-hour data, ending third total in 13:32:07 (the earlier file was 14:45:51, set in 2022 by Woodstock, Ont.’s Amanda Nelson). Hamulecki dominated the ladies’s 100-mile race, with the second-place finisher, Michigan’s Erica Aikman, greater than three hours behind her in 17:01:30, and Mallory Servais of Berkley, Calif. taking third in 17:47:15.
The Tunnel Hill 100 is a 50-mile loop course that runners full twice for the complete 100-mile race. In keeping with the race web site, the character of the course has sparked loads of debate, particularly after Camille Herron’s world record-breaking efficiency within the girls’s 100-mile (12:42:40). The course is assessed as each a highway and a path; it’s sanctioned by USATF and IAU licensed and ratified as a highway or open course. As a result of it’s unpaved, it’s additionally labeled as a path by the American Path Runners Affiliation and the Worldwide Path Runners Affiliation.
Julie Hamulecki wins Ontario’s Sulphur Springs 50-mile outright, breaks course file
In Could, Hamuleckiwas the primary finisher total within the 50-mile race at Sulphur Springs in Hamilton’s Dundas Valley, finishing the space in 7:08:00–virtually 40 minutes forward of the primary male finisher, and capturing the course file. Hamulecki can also be the Canadian 100K file holder on the highway.
Hamulecki wasn’t the one girl crushing data at Tunnel Hill on Saturday. Courtney Olsen of Bellingham, Wash. set a brand new girls’s 50-mile world file, operating 5:31:56 to beat Anne Trason‘s long-standing file of 5:40:18, set in 1991. In June, Olsen took third on the iconic Comrades Marathon in South Africa; and she is going to compete within the IAU 100K World Championships in December.
Within the males’s 100-mile race, Iowa’s John Donovan took first in 12:36:26, adopted by Phil Younger (additionally of Iowa) in 12:48:45; Ohio’s Adam Gloyeske took third (and fourth total) in 14:25:46.
For full outcomes of the 2024 Tunnel Hill 100 and 50-mile races, head right here.