Edmonton’s Alissa St Laurent tamed the extremely technical 100-mile course at Grindstone by UTMB in Virginia over the weekend, working 24:39:02 to dominate the ladies’s race and end greater than 90 minutes forward of her closest competitor.
St Laurent’s commanding win Saturday provides to an astounding string of podium-topping finishes for the 39-year-old. Throughout an ultrarunning profession that now spans greater than a decade, St Laurent has distinguished herself as the primary girl to change into the general winner of the Canadian Loss of life Race in Grande Cache, Alta., which she achieved in 2015 in 13:51:21.
She’s additionally been the highest girls’s finisher at races together with Edmonton’s Blackfoot Extremely 50 miler (2013), Edmonton’s Quick Trax 50K (2013), the Misplaced Soul Extremely 100K in, Lethbridge, Alta., (2013), the Harriers Elk/Beaver 100K in Victoria, B.C. (2014), the Run for the Toad 50K in Cambridge, Ont. (2015), the Capitol Peak Mega Fats Ass 50K (2016), Arizona’s Monument Valley 50K (2019), the Huge Chief 50K in North Tahoe, Calif. (2021), the Klondike Extremely 100K in Fort Assiniboine, Alta. (2022) and the Kodiak Extremely Marathons by UTMB in Huge Bear Lake, Calif. (2022).
The Canadian’s newest victory unfolded on what has been billed as one of many hardest programs on the U.S. east coast. Starting Friday from Pure Chimneys Park and Campground in Mt. Solon, Va., the Grindstone Extremely Operating Pageant by UTMB 100 miler featured greater than 6,400 metres of vertical acquire over steep ridges and peaks within the Shenandoah Valley.
Following behind St Laurent to spherical out the ladies’s podium had been People Shelby Johnson (26:17:52) and Serena Eley (27:53:39).
With their finishes, St Laurent, Johnson and Eley have secured their spots for subsequent yr’s UTMB World Collection Finals, in addition to a lottery probability to enter subsequent yr’s Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run and Hardrock 100.
Within the males’s 100-mile race, Mike McMonagle ran 19:10:06 to greatest fellow American runners Grant Barnette (19:50:53) and Joey Miller (20:54:00).
People swept the podiums in Grindstone’s 100K race, which supplied over 3,350 metres of vertical acquire. Operating 8:54:43 to position first total within the 100K was Caleb Olson. Caleb Bowen ran 8:59:29 to position second and Justin Grunewald positioned third, ending in 9:12:46. Lotti Banks ran 10:37:25 to prime the ladies’s podium, adopted by Devon Yanko (10:43:46 ) and Anna Fisher (11:11:51).
The 21K occasion, in the meantime, noticed one other Canadian crack the American-dominated podium. Toronto’s Shad Uadiale ran 1:51:09 to complete between winner Brandt Boggs and Steven Larick. Hollyann Swann, who completed second total in 1:49:18, topped the ladies’s podium. She was adopted by Aimee Kohler 1:55:21 and Brittany Blitzer (2:00:43).
This yr’s Grindstone Extremely Operating Pageant by UTMB featured 800 registered runners from 46 states and 19 nations, areas and territories.
