After a uncommon DNF by Courtney Dauwalter 108 miles into this 12 months’s Cocodona 250, and regardless of brutal climate over the primary day and a half of the race, the eventual girls’s winner completed fourth total, decimating the course file by seven hours. Rachel Entrekin of Alabama, who additionally received final 12 months’s race, ran from Black Canyon Metropolis (close to Phoenix) to Flagstaff in 63 hours, 50 minutes, 55 seconds.
West Virginia’s Dan Inexperienced received the boys’s race, additionally with a brand new course file; his time was 58:47:18.
The race started in a spring storm that introduced rain, hail, mud and chilly temperatures properly into the second day. The race continues till Saturday.
In just a few quick years since its beginning in 2021, Aravaipa Operating’s Cocodona 250 has turn out to be one of many longest and most iconic U.S. ultras on the calendar. Its 256 miles (412.16 km) stretching from Black Canyon Metropolis to Flagstaff embrace greater than 12,000 metres of vertical acquire and an identical quantity of elevation loss.
Inexperienced’s time–58 hours, 47 minutes, 18 seconds–was a bit greater than an hour sooner than the course file set by Harry Subertas in 2024. (Subertas raced this 12 months additionally, and led in the course of the early a part of the race, in the end ending fourth.)
iRunFar studies that when Dauwalter dropped at mile 108, Entrekin’s crew initially didn’t inform her, since she was already in second place and so they needed her to “maintain her mindset of chasing somebody down.” The earlier course file was set by Annie Hughes in 2022 at 71:10:22.
Prime 5 girls
- Rachel Entrekin – 63:50:55
- Lindsey Dwyer – 79:35:28
- Sarah Ostaszewski – 80:25:31
- Shelby Farrell – 85:26:23
- Melissa Browne – 85:45:23
Prime 5 males
- Dan Inexperienced – 58:47:18
- Ryan Sandes – 61:21:04
- Edher Ramirez – 63:10:13
- Harry Subertas – 65:28:53
- Finn Melanson – 66:29:40
For full outcomes of the 2025 Cocodona 250, click on right here.