This week’s highlights embrace New Zealand and a brand new 24-hour world file, and races like Cloudland Canyon and Crooked Creek.
However first, a recap from the IAU 24-Hour World Championships, that includes a brand new ladies’s world file.
IAU 24-Hour World Championships – Taipei
Japan’s Miho Nakata received the ladies’s particular person race and set a brand new world file, and Lithuania’s Aleksandr Sorokin repeated as males’s world champion. It was the primary time since 2019 that the IAU 24-hour World Championships had been held. iRunFar earlier lined the larger race particulars, and honed in on Nakata’s world file.
Girls
Miho Nakata was in entrance nearly all through, and went additional than another girl. Nakata’s day completed with a 167.996-mile complete (270.363 kilometers), and her first-place end outdistanced her closest competitors by over 9 miles. The end gave her a slim 807-foot (246 meters) lead over Camille Herron’s former world file. Nakata, 34 years outdated, earlier received the 2022 Soochow 24-hour Ultramarathon, additionally in Taipei, with a 159-mile complete.
Japan’s Miho Nakata working laborious throughout the remaining hour of her world-record-setting effort on the 2023 IAU 24-Hour World Championships, held in Taipei on December 1 and a couple of. Picture: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners
The following six ladies all completed with over 150 miles. Olena Shevchenko (Ukraine) was second with 158.116 miles (254.463k) and former world file holder Patrycja Bereznowska (Poland) was third with 155.058 miles (249.541k).
The primary U.S. finisher was Tenth-place Aly Allen (U.S., lives in Barbados). Former world file holder Camille Herron dropped about 12 hours into the race.
A rustic’s first three runners scored within the crew competitors. Poland, with two runners inside the highest 10, received crew gold and Japan and the Czech Republic had been second and third.
The U.S. ladies completed fifth within the crew race.
Males
The lads began quick too and pre-race favourite Aleksandr Sorokin didn’t transfer into the lead till after six hours of operating. Sorokin would go on to complete 187.524 miles (301.790k) as the person winner. That’s higher than the 173 miles (278.972k) that he ran in 2019 to win the final world championships, however is lower than his 198-mile (319.614k) world file from 2022.
Lithuania’s Aleksandr Sorokin on his approach to successful the 2023 IAU 24-Hour World Championships. Picture: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners
Fotis Zisimopoulos (Greece) was second in 181.598 miles (292.254k). Solely 9 weeks earlier Zisimopoulos received and set a course file at Greece’s Spartathlon 153-mile race.
Third-place Andrii Tkachuk (Ukraine) totaled 176.805 miles (284.540k).
Chad Lasater was the highest U.S. finisher. He ran 155.831 miles (250.785k) for twenty third place.
Lithuania, Poland, and the U.Okay. earned crew gold, silver, and bronze.
Gold medal winners in 2019, the U.S. males’s crew completed thirteenth this version.
SaintéLyon – Saint-Étienne, France
You may’t be scared to run at midnight right here. There’s a bunch of various distances and relay contests, however the premier race runs at nighttime and connects the cities of Saint-Étienne and Lyon on a 78k (48 miles) route.
Girls
The highest two ladies completed beneath seven hours and the primary six finishers had been all French. Julie Roux led countrywomen Marie Goncalves and Maryline Nakache on the headlamp run. Roux completed in 6:39 and Goncalves in 6:54. Nakache was on the opposite aspect of seven hours at 7:18.
Males
Lower than eight minutes separated the entrance three males and the primary six had been all quicker than six hours. The rostrum was completely French with Thomas Cardin lighting the way in which in 5:41. Antoine Charvolin was second in 5:45 and Baptiste Chassagne ran 5:49 for third.
California Worldwide Marathon – Sacramento, California
The street marathon runs level to level and with a web downhill. The ladies wanted to go beneath 2:37 to qualify for the February 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, and the lads beneath 2:18.
Girls
Solely twenty first at midway in 1:18:08, Rachel Drake completely crushed the second half. Drake unfavourable break up it — not straightforward to do after the race’s downhill first half — for a 2:35:28 end. Drake chewed up 16 runners over the race’s second half and bought into the prize cash. Peyton Thomas was simply behind in sixth at 2:35:50, and each at the moment are into the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.
To shut the hole on final week’s quick preview, Courtney Olsen, EmKay Sullivan, and Devon Yanko had been all entered, however didn’t begin the race.
Males
CJ Albertson for the win in 2:11:09. Albertson, the 50k world file holder, handed path upstart Christian Allen close to mile 23 for the last word lead. Albertson received a $10,000 first-place prize plus a $500 Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time bonus. Albertson was an almost two-minute winner when it was all finished.
Allen was one in every of three leaders at midway in 1:04:46, eight seconds forward of Albertson. He shook free from longtime co-frontrunner Amanuel Mesel (Eritrea) after 35k and led the race outright, however then fell again to Albertson’s cost and struggled late. Allen fell again to eighth in 2:15:01.
The entire males’s path runners and ultrarunners we noticed had been:
- CJ Albertson – 1st, 2:11:09
- Christian Allen – eighth, 2:15:01
- Craig Hunt – forty fourth, 2:19:29
- Liam Meirow – 89th, 2:23:18
- Chikara Omine – 126th, 2:25:00
- Matt Seidel – 137th, 2:25:48
- Seth Demoor – 176th, 2:28:11
Zack Beavin dropped earlier than the end, and Rajpaul Pannu and Willie Milam didn’t begin the race.
Kepler Problem – Te Anau, New Zealand
The race is one in every of New Zealand’s high mountain runs and traces the 60k Kepler Observe by way of Fiordland Nationwide Park. The race paid out prize cash three deep with $1,800 to the winners. The ladies’s and males’s podiums had been all from New Zealand.
Girls
The highest three ladies all completed beneath six hours. Katie Morgan gapped the group with a 5:36 run. It was her second straight win, and fairly a bit quicker than final yr’s 5:59. Nancy Jiang edged Robyn Lesh for second. The 2 had been solely 23 seconds aside in 5:47 and 5:48, respectively.
Males
Daniel Jones received for the sixth straight yr. He received in 4:41, and that was two minutes higher than final yr. Jones received the Queenstown Marathon in 2:31 final month too.
This yr’s Kepler race was shut and Jones was solely 4 minutes higher than second-place David Haunschmidt. Third-place Daniel Balchin closed the mountain loop in 4:50.
Further Races and Runs
El Cruce – Bariloche, Argentina
The three day stage race totaled 100k throughout the mountains. Three ladies completed the primary stage collectively. Grayson Murphy (U.S.), Michelle Reddy (Canada), and Keelah Barger (U.S.) all ran 3:04. And Miguel Heras (Spain) and Andrew Rodrigues (Portugal) had been aspect by aspect on the finish of the lads’s race in 2:24.
On the longer stage two, Murphy opened a ladies’s lead and completed six minutes in entrance at 3:45, and Heras did too. He was 42 seconds higher than second place on the race’s second day.
Murphy, Reddy, and Barger had been once more collectively on the end of day three, however Murphy received total. Rodrigues pipped Heras by 10 seconds on day three, however Heras received the general race by two minutes. Full outcomes.
The 2023 El Cruce ladies’s podium: (l-to-r) 2. Michelle Reddy, 1. Grayson Murphy, and 3. Keelah Barger. Picture: El Cruce
The 2023 El Cruce males’s podium: (l-to-r) 2. Sergio G. Pereyra, 1. Miguel Heras (Spain) and 3. Andrew Rodrigues. Picture: El Cruce
Valencia Marathon – Valencia, Spain
Gerda Steyn (South Africa), the Comrades Marathon two-time winner, ran 2:24:03 for eleventh place. It was a brand new private greatest, a brand new South African nationwide file, and a end that doubtless will get her a spot within the 2024 Olympic Marathon discipline. Steyn was fifteenth on the 2020 Olympic Marathon. Full outcomes.
Ray Miller 50/50 – Malibu, California
The 50-mile race topped Jade Lenning (Canada) and Cody Jordan as winners in 9:30 and seven:45, and Kelly Motyka and Jonathan Metcalfe had been greatest over 50k in 5:34 and 4:13. Full outcomes.
Anza Borrego Cuyamaca 50 Mile – Julian, California
Isabelle Biase led the ladies in 9:46 and Michael Dominguez set a brand new course file at 7:07. Full outcomes.
McDowell Mountain Frenzy – Fountain Hills, Arizona
The 50-mile winners Nicole Hanson and David Roche completed in 7:27 and 6:28, and each received $1,500. Kristina Mascarenas and Chris Myers received the 50k in 4:10 and three:30. Full outcomes.
Colossal-Vail 50/50 – Vail, Arizona
The race begins and finishes on the Colossal Cave Mountain Park. Susie Stephen and Michael Tomchaney had been first within the 50-mile race in 7:54 and seven:31, and Sara Aranda and John Trongard received the 55k in 5:30 and 4:37. Full outcomes.
Jackson County 50-50 – Brownstown, Indiana
A small discipline of 25 fifty-mile finishers was led by Majel Wills and Scott Fihma in 11:13 and 9:34. The 50k frontrunners Katy Baumgartner and Adam Togami got here by way of in 5:57 and 4:41. Full outcomes.
Crooked Creek Extremely 50 Mile – Shepherdsville, Kentucky
Brooke Gibbons and Gavin Prior had been victorious over 50 miles in 11:21 and eight:02. Full outcomes.
Cloudland Canyon – Rising Fawn, Georgia
The Run Bum race begins and finishes inside its namesake state park, and places plenty of climbing in between. The 50-mile winners Jill Dennes and Alex Dedels completed in 8:51 and seven:37, and the following day Mary Roberson and Brandon Sullivan received the 50k in 5:30 and 4:36. Full outcomes.
Satan Canine Ultras – Triangle, Virginia
Outcomes haven’t but hit the online, however social media factors to Karl Meltzer successful one more 100 miler. Maybe a reader can share full outcomes and the ladies’s winner? Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Festivus 50 Miler – Middleburg, Florida
The race had 50- and 37.5-mile feats of power. Sarah Lewis and Zack Fischer received the lengthy course in 9:50 and eight:01, and Alex Wetherill and Andy Farina received the eight-lap 37.5-mile race in 7:46 and 6:56. Full outcomes.
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