There have been longtime races and first-year races just like the Quito Path by UTMB, and brief stuff just like the FlettaTrail and 100 milers like Angeles Crest.
It’s one other various set for our weekly rundown.
FlettaTrail Malonno – Malonno, Italy
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The uphill race climbed 1,000 meters over 3.4 kilometers in distance, and no one does it higher than Andrea Mayr (Austria). Mayr received right here for the seventh time, topping out in 38:28. She was a bit over a minute again from her personal course document from 2023. Third in 2023, Philaries Kisang (Kenya) moved up one spot to complete second in 40:20, and Susanna Saapunki (Finland) was third in 40:45.
Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) received the boys’s race in 34:42. That’s over two minutes again of Patrick Kipngeno’s course document run from 2023. Italian runners Tiziano Moia and Henri Aymonod went up second and third in 33:26 and 33:43.
FlettaTrail
A day later, the up-and-down race went 21k with 1,100 meters of elevation achieve, and celebrated its 61st 12 months. Orienteering professional Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) led the ladies 1:38 and took 30 seconds off the earlier course greatest. Philaries Kisang doubled again from the vertical race to once more end second in 1:41, and Vivien Bonzi (Italy) was third in 1:43.
Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) raced for the third weekend in a row, and identical to final week, received once more. He champed the boys’s race in 1:27, and Alric Petit (France) and Marco Moletto (Italy) have been second and third in 1:31 and 1:32.
Angeles Crest 100 Mile – Wrightwood, California
The longtime race had taken a couple of cancellations in recent times, together with final 12 months when injury from the 2020 Bobcat Fireplace and subsequent rainstorms left the course out of attain.
Megan Eckert was the category of the sector. She ripped by way of the course in 22:02. Sarah McMahon and Yumi Vielpeau have been second and third in 26:25 and 27:49.
Second in 2022, Michael Eastburn was awarded bib #1, and he backed it up with a first-place 18:49 males’s end. Clark Messman and Rene Dorantes have been second and third in 19:11 and 19:54.
Waldo 100k – Oakridge, Oregon
Air high quality from regional wildfires threatened the race’s twenty third version, but it surely went off in a giant loop from the Willamette Cross Ski Space. 5 climbs totaled greater than 11,000 toes of elevation achieve.
The highest seven girls all got here by way of beneath 13 hours. On the entrance, Molly Schmelzle overtook Brianna Grigsby simply over mile 50 and received in 12:04. Grigsby stayed shut and was second in 12:13. Third-place Mandi Goudie was proper there too in 12:23.
Molly Schmelzle on her solution to profitable the 2024 Waldo 100k. Picture courtesy of Waldo 100k
Males’s winner Casey Weinman put a giant hole on the sector and completed in 10:18, 36 minutes forward of everybody else. Second- and third-place Maxwell Atkins and Eric Colton ran 10:54 and 10:56. Colton simply edged out Luke Garten by 53 seconds for that final podium spot.
Casey Weinman, the 2024 Waldo 100k males’s winner. Picture: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Pictures
KAT 100 by UTMB – Fieberbrunn, Austria
Endurance Path
The 50 miler totaled practically 16,000 toes of elevation achieve on muddy trails within the Kitzbühel Alps. German runners took 4 of the primary 5 spots with solely the host nation Austria breaking apart that group. Sylvie Geißler (Germany) was victorious in 11:50, Michaela Pilat (Austria) and Karola Rennhack (Germany) have been second and third in 11:57 and 12:31.
Males’s winner Daniel Jung (Italy) completed in 9:40. Tomas Macecek (Czech Republic) and Goar Lopetegui (Spain) have been second and third in 9:59 and 10:06, respectively.
Marathon Path
The 31-mile race gained over 10,000 toes of elevation on its mountain route. Valerie Arsenault (Canada) escaped Claudia Chmielowska (Poland) for the ladies’s win in 6:16. Chmielowska was second in 6:20, and Anke Friedl (Germany) was additional again in third at 6:37.
Within the males’s race, Hayden Hawks (U.S.) received a squeaker over Fredrik Bruseth (Norway) and Stian Dahl (Norway). The three frontrunners have been lower than six minutes aside on the end. Hawks received in 5:00, Bruseth was second in 5:02, and Dahl was third in 5:06.
A runner amidst the luxurious surroundings at one of many 2024 KAT 100 by UTMB races. Picture: UTMB
Further Races and Runs
Fjällmaraton – Vålådalen, Sweden
It was the occasion’s twentieth 12 months, and it’s once more occurring over eight days. Lina El Kott (Sweden) and Eskil Kinneberg (Sweden) received the 45k race in 4:58 and three:47. Full outcomes.
Quito Path by UTMB – Quito, Ecuador
The occasion’s lengthy race went 46 miles with nearly 15,000 toes of elevation achieve, and each the ladies’s and males’s contests have been shut. Fernanda Maciel (Brazil) led the ladies in 11:13, and Carolina Tania Diaz (Argentina) and Lidia Chalacan (Colombia) each ran 11:20 however with Diaz 22 seconds in entrance. Tyler Andrews (U.S.) received the boys’s race forward of Remigio Huaman (Peru). Andrews and Quispe ran 8:32 and eight:38, respectively. Marcelo Segovia (Ecuador) was a distant third in 9:45. Full outcomes.
Canadian Loss of life Race – Grande Cache, Alberta, Canada
Final 12 months, Kim Cameron received the 42k Close to Loss of life Marathon right here, and this 12 months she led the 118k (73 mile) race in 15:25. Matthew Schneider was the primary man on the 118k course in 14:01. The lengthy course hits three mountain summits, crosses a significant river, and 17,000 toes of elevation achieve. Amanda Phillips and Justin Watkins received the Close to Loss of life Marathon in 4:58 and 4:07. Watkins’s time was a brand new course document. Full outcomes.
The beginning of the 2024 Canadian Loss of life Race. Picture: Canadian Loss of life Race
Volcanic 50k – Cougar, Washington
The race traversed the paths round Mt. St. Helens. Sarah Allaben dominated the ladies’s run in 6:10. Jaclyn Noshay and Jessica Collentine have been second and third in 6:58 and seven:03. The lads’s race was significantly shut with lower than eight minutes splitting the primary three. Kyle Bodnyk was the most effective of the group in 6:00, and Nathan Morgan and Chris McQuivey have been second and third in 6:04 and 6:08. Full outcomes.
Sarah Allaben, the 2024 Volcanic 50k girls’s winner. Picture: Full Ship Media
Kyle Bodnyk, the 2024 Volcanic 50k males’s winner. Picture: Full Ship Media
Hood Hundred – Mt. Hood, Oregon
The race was run lollipop type on the most effective of Mt. Hood’s trails, and with practically 18,000 toes of elevation achieve. Race leaders Catherine LeClair and Jace Ives knocked it out in 23:44 and 17:25. Full outcomes.
Badger Path Races – Belleville, Wisconsin
The occasion included 4 extremely distances from 100 miles to 5ok, partially on the Badger State Path. 100-mile winners Julie Uychiat and Steve Byhre completed in 23:31 and 20:31, and within the 100k Rachel Ragona was the general winner in 9:11. Males’s 100k champ Ian Krynski completed in 12:31. Full outcomes.
Race the Cog – Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
The race went 2.75 miles to the highest of Mt. Washington in opposition to a prepare. Amber Ferreira scored an upset win over this 12 months’s U.S. Vertical nationwide champ Lauren Gregory. Ferreira topped out in 50:24 and Gregory was second in 52:35. Remi Leroux (Canada) received the boys’s race forward of Eric Blake. The 2 hit the highest in 41:28 and 43:55. Full outcomes.
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