September 23, 2024 – iRunFar

That was an enormous weekend. This week’s race recap goes to the highest of Pikes Peak and down below to Australia.

You can too take a look at our higher race protection from earlier within the week:

Mammoth Path Fest – Mammoth Lakes, California

Dragon’s Again Ascent

Friday’s three-mile race went up 2,400 ft and paid $3,400 to its prime finishers. Uphill all-star Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) led the lads to the highest in 33:18, and he was largely alone. Few different Golden Path World Sequence (GTWS) runners selected to tackle the double. Jonas Soldini (Switzerland) and Chad Corridor had been minutes again in 35:01 and 36:12 for second and third. Corridor gained the race in each 2023 and 2022.

Ladies’s winner Abby Lock topped out in 43:53, and Summer season Allen and Pema Franchi Antelme (France) had been second and third in 46:04 and 49:08.

Mammoth 50k

Saturday’s 50-kilometer race stretched 32 miles and with 7,000 ft of elevation achieve for an $8,000 purse. Chad Corridor got here again from the day prior vertical race to win the lengthy course in 4:12. He gained the race in its inaugural 12 months in 2022 too. Chris Myers and Cole Watson had been on the rostrum subsequent in 4:22 and 4:28.

Ladies’s winner Sylvie Abel led Lauren Puretz and Dayna Stimson via the course in 5:23. The chasers completed in 5:26 and 5:30, respectively.

Mammoth 26k

The race was the 12 months’s eighth GTWS contest. It occurred on Sunday and went 16 miles and with 3,900 ft of climbing for a $21,000 prize purse.

Males

Outsprinted on the end line final week on the Headlands 27k, Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) went to the entrance early. Twenty minutes into the race Obogo Kiriago had a few-second hole on Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland), Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco), Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya), and everybody else.

When the actual climbing was finished although, it was Kipngeno that hit the highest first. World-class downhiller Elazzaoui was proper there too although. Bonnet was now third and surprisingly 41 seconds again of Kipngeno. Kiriago, like Elazzaoui a robust downhiller, was fourth and 76 seconds behind the chief.

Ninety minutes into the race on one of many steeper downhills, Elazzaoui did precisely as anticipated and blew previous Kipngeno. Leaning into his downhill energy, Elazzaoui was rapidly out of attain. After which surprisingly, and virtually as rapidly, Kipngeno was again within the lead. Neither may shake the opposite and so they traded the lead forwards and backwards the remainder of the way in which.

For the second week in a row the lads’s race got here all the way down to a dash, and for the second week in a row it was Elazzaoui in first. It wasn’t with out controversy although. Kipngeno went for a go meters from the end and Elazzaoui moved simply to his proper sufficient to interrupt Kipngeno’s kind. They had been a single second aside with Elazzaoui first in 1:49:35 and Kipngeno second in 1:49:36. It was Elazzaoui’s third GTWS win of the 12 months.

Ombogo Kiriago edged out Bonnet for third. He completed in 1:52:30 and Bonnet was fourth in 1:52:59.

The highest 10 males had been:

• • 1. Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 1:49:35
    2. Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 1:49:36
    3. Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) – 1:52:30
    4. Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) – 1:52:59
    5. Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 1:59:31
    6. Marco Filosi (Italy) – 2:00:00
    7. Garrett Corcoran (U.S.) – 2:00:27
    8. Cesare Maestri (Italy) – 2:00:47
    9. Jonas Soldini (Switzerland) – 2:01:57
    10. Rémi Leroux (Canada) – 2:02:46

Ladies

Early on the race seemed like final week’s contest. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) led forward of Mădălina Florea (Romania) and Lauren Gregory (U.S.). These three had been first, second, and third on the Headlands 27k race final week. Together with Gregory, seven Individuals had been inside the highest 10 on the Twin Lakes timing level roughly half-hour into the race. Final week’s fast-finisher Miao Yao (China) was again in twelfth.

Muthoni Njeru pushed her lead additional to the course’s excessive level, summiting over two minutes sooner than second-place Florea. Rachel Drake (U.S.), making her GTWS debut for the 12 months, was third to the highest.

Nothing modified on the entrance the remainder of the way in which, Muthoni Njeru gained in 2:11:56 and Florea was second in 2:14:51. It was Muthoni Njeru’s third GTWS win of the 12 months.

It was an enormous battle although for third. Anna Gibson (U.S.) and Drake traded the lead a number of occasions over the downhill second half as every discovered their benefit. Gibson gained the combat with a third-place 2:20:03 and Drake was fourth in 2:20:40.

The U.S. would place six ladies inside the highest 10.

The highest 10 ladies had been:

• • 1. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 2:11:56
    2. Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 2:14:51
    3. Anna Gibson (U.S.) – 2:20:03
    4. Rachel Drake (U.S.) – 2:20:40
    5. Tabor Hemming (U.S.) – 2:21:47
    6. Lauren Gregory (U.S.) – 2:21:57
    7. Oria Liaci (Switzerland) – 2:22:31
    8. Allie Ostrander (U.S.) – 2:23:15
    9. Emkay Sullivan (U.S.) – 2:23:39
    10. Miao Yao (China) – 2:24:39

(In 2023, Ostrander was suspended for 4 months after testing constructive 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.)

Full outcomes.

Pikes Peak Ascent – Manitou Springs, Colorado

Saturday’s uphill race was a 13.3-mile climb to the highest of Pikes Peak. That’s a 6,300-foot begin, 7,815 ft of elevation achieve, and a end close to the 14,115-foot summit. A $10,500 prize purse awarded $2,000 to the winners with cash paid 5 deep.

Males

The race wasn’t a part of the Golden Path World Sequence this 12 months in fact, however the males’s race was nonetheless a little bit of a Colorado mountain working showdown. Joseph Grey and Seth Demoor have starred on Pikes Peak for the final decade. Demoor is a two-time Pikes Peak Marathon winner, however Grey was a four-time Pikes Peak Ascent winner. Regardless of Grey’s higher report, Demoor’s 2:06 climb as a part of the 2021 Marathon was minutes sooner than any of Grey’s Ascent occasions lately.

Grey seems to be to have dominated this 12 months’s match-up although. He jumped to the lead immediately and it was by no means that shut. Grey gained the race to the highest in 2:11. It was his fifth win on Pikes Peak.

Demoor overtook Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau for second place late. Demoor completed in 2:14 and Beaudoin-Rousseau was third in 2:15, 50 seconds behind Demoor.

Cam Smith got here again from final weekend’s double at The Rut in Montana to complete fourth in 2:19 and Joseph Demoor was fifth in 2:22.

The highest 5 was:

• • 1. Joseph Grey – 2:11:13
    2. Seth Demoor – 2:14:58
    3. Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau – 2:15:48
    4. Cam Smith – 2:19:44
    5. Joseph Demoor – 2:22:45

Ladies

The ladies’s race ran as a little bit of a rematch from final 12 months too. In 2023 through the race’s aggressive Golden Path World Sequence 12 months, Hali Hafeman was eleventh and Allie McLaughlin was twelfth. The 2 had been once more collectively this 12 months, but it surely was McLaughlin that gained the match up, and the race with 2:45 on the prime. It was McLaughlin’s third Pikes Peak Ascent win. Hafeman closed exhausting up excessive to complete simply 34 seconds again, having made up over a minute on McLaughlin within the final two miles.

Kristin Johnson was third in 3:01, and Anna Mae-Flynn and Kasey Sutherlin took the opposite prize cash spots in 3:07 and three:08, respectively.

The highest 5 was:

• • 1. Allie McLaughlin – 2:45:36
    2. Hali Hafeman – 2:46:10
    3. Kristin Johnson – 3:01:40
    4. Anna Mae-Flynn – 3:07:06
    5. Kasey Sutherlin – 3:08:17

Full outcomes.

Pikes Peak Marathon – Manitou Springs, Colorado

Sunday’s up-and-down, out-and-back marathon was minimize brief attributable to snow on the upper components of the mountain. The race rotated at Barr Camp midway up and as an alternative went for simply 15 miles.

The prize purse matched that of the day prior Ascent, $10,500 in whole with $2,000 to the winners.

Males

The course was totally different than the final two years, however the consequence was the identical. Jonathan Aziz gained for the third 12 months in a row. Aziz completed in 1:46, and bought out entrance from an enormous chase group. The shorter distance actually made the end occasions nearer this 12 months and fewer than a minute separated the second via second- via fifth-place finishers. Tate Knight was second in 1:49 and 24 seconds behind him, Kevin Vermeulen (France) was third additionally in 1:49.

The complete prime 5 was:

• • 1. Jonathan Aziz – 1:46:10
    2. Tate Knight – 1:49:25
    3. Kevin Vermeulen (France) – 1:49:49
    4. Anthony Williams – 1:49:59
    5. Darren Thomas – 1:50:05

Ladies

Second in 2023, Sarah Guhl stepped as much as the highest spot this 12 months. The ladies’s race mirrored the lads’s with a frontrunner out entrance and a tightly packed group behind. Sarah Biehl was on the entrance of the chasers in 2:13 after which lower than a minute cut up third-, fourth-, and fifth-place. Shannon Dowlearn was the most effective of that group in 2:15 for third.

The highest 5 had been:

• • 1. Sarah Guhl – 2:10:55
    2. Sarah Biehl – 2:13:22
    3. Shannon Dowlearn – 2:15:13
    4. Flannery Davis-Love – 2:15:53
    5. Marcela Vašínová (Czech Republic) – 2:16:08

Full outcomes.

Grindstone by UTMB – Swoope, Virginia

The Seventeenth-year occasion hosted 1,000 runners throughout its 4 race distances. The programs found excessive ridges, deep valleys, and the most effective of the Shenandoah Valley between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains.

100 Mile

The 100-mile race was uniquely a Western States 100, Hardrock 100, and UTMB qualifier. The race was practically 105 miles and with over 20,000 ft of climbing.

It wasn’t till 90 miles into the race that the leaderboard confirmed Gavin Prior on the prime. He gained in 21:23. After a drop on the Canyons by UTMB 100 Mile in April, this seems to be to be Prior’s first 100-mile end. And he ran down a legend to get the win. Anton Krupicka was second in 21:52. This was his first 100-mile end since a third-place run on the 2021 Leadville 100 Mile and solely his second 100-mile end in over a decade. Alex Proctor was third in 22:17.

Katti Jackson topped Jill Dennes within the ladies’s race. Each ran below 24 hours with 23:31 and 23:54 end occasions. Tatiana Rypinski was third in 24:51.

50k

Dan Curts gained his 50k debut in 3:57. Per week earlier, Curts gained and broke a David Sinclair course report at New Hampshire’s Kismet Cliff Run. Alex Forte and Brian Atkinson trailed the winner in 4:02 and 4:12, respectively.

Sarah Bergeron-Larouche (Canada) separated from Ashley Brasovan within the second half to win the ladies’s race in 4:31. Brasovan closed in 4:34 and Karin Strickland was third in 5:31.

Full outcomes.

Julian Alps Path Run by UTMB – Kranjska Gora, Slovenia

Hayden Hawks (U.S.) gained the CCC 101k three weeks in the past, and Francesco Puppi (Italy) was second on the OCC 55k that very same week. Each may’ve known as it a 12 months after these stellar runs, however as an alternative they got here again to race the 34-mile Sky Path distance and its 8,000 ft of climbing.

The 2 had been collectively for the early miles, however then it was all Puppi. He completed first in 4:31. Hawks was second in 4:52, and Dimitri Chapelle (France) was third in 5:08.

The ladies’s race ran nearer on the prime with barely three minutes separating the rostrum. Eliska Sieglova (Czech Republic) gained the race in 6:23, and second- and third-place Anne Barber (Germany) and Federica Zuccollo (Italy) each completed in 6:26 and solely three seconds aside.

Full outcomes.

Maga SkyMarathon – Zorzone, Italy

The race was the 12 months’s 14th Skyrunner World Sequence contest and it went for 39k and three,000 meters of achieve via the Orobie Alps. That’s 24 miles and 9,800 ft within the Italian Alps within the northern a part of the nation.

There have been 4 steep climbs on the right track to the summit of 4 peaks and, as per typical for Skyrunner races, there have been extraordinarily technical sections aided by mounted ropes.

The highest three males and the highest three ladies all broke the previous course report. Italian males swept the primary 5 end spots. Native runner Nadir Maguet was first in 4:21, and Cristian Minoggio and Gianluca Ghiano had been subsequent in 4:24 and 4:35.

Hillary Gerardi (U.S., lives in France) beat again a problem from Ioana Madalina Amariei (Romania) on the entrance of the ladies’s race. Gerardi gained in 5:31 and Amariei was second in 5:36. Oihana Kortazar (Spain) was third in 5:45.

Full outcomes.

Extra Races and Runs

La Skyrhune – Ascain, France

The technical 21k mountain run gained 1,700 meters, or 5,577 ft, on a course spiked by three massive climbs. Race winners earned €500. Sylvain Cachard (France) championed the lads’s run in 1:56. Robin Juillaguet (France) and Daniel Alonso (Spain) had been second and third in 1:59 and a pair of:00, 50 seconds aside. Sara Alonso (Spain) took the ladies’s crown in 2:13. Cecile Jarousseau (France) and Malen Osa (Spain) ran 2:16 and a pair of:20 for second and third. Full outcomes.

Surf Coast Century – Anglesea, Australia

The race’s thirteenth version occurred with 1,500 runners throughout the 100k, 50k, and relay races. The races occur partly alongside the Nice Ocean Street. Nigel Hill and Holly Ranson gained the 100k in 8:49 and 9:03, and Ranson’s time broke an eight-year-old course report. Matthew Whitaker and Miah Noble gained the 50k in 3:28 and three:53, respectively. Full outcomes.

Three Sisters Skyline 50k – Sisters, Oregon

The Alpine Working race is highlighted by unbelievable views of the Three Sisters and different excessive Cascade peaks. The race hits a excessive level close to mile 10 after which runs downhill the remainder of the way in which. Mario Mendoza gained the lads’s race and simply missed the course report in 3:47, and Carmen Bango was first lady in 4:28. Full outcomes.

Mountain Lakes 100 Mile – Olallie Lake, Oregon

Sixty miles of the 100-mile race are on the Pacific Crest Path, and the route takes in dozens of mountain lakes. Will Guzick and Julija Soryte gained in 17:15 and 19:45, respectively. Full outcomes.

Flagstaff to Grand Canyon Stagecoach Line 100 – Flagstaff, Arizona

Edwin Miller and Andrea White led the point-to-point 100 miler in 19:53 and 21:17. Full outcomes.

IMTUF 100 Mile – McCall, Idaho

He didn’t match his 2018 course report time, however David Ayala gained for the third time with 22:17 on the clock. Madison Liechty gained the ladies’s race in 24:22. It was the race’s second-fastest end ever. Full outcomes.

Barkley Fall Basic 50k – Wartburg, Tennessee

Tim Landy (U.Ok.) ran his method into the 2025 Barkley Marathons with a first-place 9:06, and impediment course racing professional Chris Rugloski repeated as ladies’s winner in 9:32. Full outcomes.

Georgia Jewel – Dalton, Georgia

James Ebert and Debbie Boyett went the quickest throughout the 100 miler in 22:03 and 26:54. Full outcomes.

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