We’ve received observe and singletrack, Gran Path and the Buckeye Path, Silver Rush and Silverton.
It’s one other enjoyable mashup of one of the best from the previous weekend.
Extremely Path Côte d’Azur Mercantour – Cote d’Azur, France
There have been three extremely distances races on the occasion, however the 30k race was a part of the Skyrunner World Sequence and ran as essentially the most aggressive. Each 30k race winners set new course data.
Leire Fernández (Spain) edged out Maria Christen (Switzerland) to win the ladies’s race in 3:30. Christen was 62 seconds again in 3:31. The pair broke away from everybody else and Martina Cumerlato (Italy) was a distant third in 3:39.
Leire Fernández on her method to successful the 2023 Extremely Path Côte d’Azur Mercantour 30k. Picture: Christian Retaggi
The lads sprinted it out with each Damien Humbert (France) and Shoma Otagiri (Japan) ending in 2:46. They have been solely six seconds aside, with Humbert in first. Sebastian Poesy (France) was simply over a minute again in third at 2:47. Poesy received final yr’s race and was the previous course-record holder.
Damien Humbert, the 2023 Extremely Path Côte d’Azur Mercantour 30k males’s winner. Picture: Christian Retaggi
Silver Rush 50 Mile – Leadville, Colorado
Virtually 800 runners raced 50 miles on the high-altitude course. The course ran out and again, totally on filth roads, and picked up 7,503 toes of elevation acquire.
Devon Yanko outran Alisyn Hummelberg on the entrance of a detailed girls’s race. Barely three minutes break up the pair on the end with Yanko successful in 7:55 to Hummelberg’s 7:58. Third-place Barrett Grey completed in 8:29.
The lads have been even nearer. The primary 4 have been lower than three minutes aside. Brad Miles escaped the group to win in 7:01, and Will Murray was solely 54 seconds again in second at 7:02. After which Joel Shores was 66 seconds behind Murray in 7:03 for third.
Mount Marathon Race – Seward, Alaska
It was the race’s ninety fifth yr, all the time on July 4 for a 5k journey up and down Mount Marathon. This yr’s run was particularly wet and muddy.
Girls
Christy Marvin was second to the highest, 38 seconds behind then-leader Meg Inokuma, however then ran her down on the best way again to city. Marvin completed in 52:52, her third win at this race, and Inokuma was second in 53:07. Marvin additionally received in 2013 and 2016. Denali Strabel had the day’s finest downhill and that pushed her to 3rd in 54:21. All three of the rostrum finishers have been from Palmer, Alaska, three hours north.
In June Klaire Rhodes was twenty first on the Path World Championships 40k race, and he or she completed fourth right here in 54:52.
The 2023 Mount Marathon Race top-five girls (l-to-r): 5. Sophie Wright, 3. Denali Strabel, 2. Meg Inokuma, 4. Klaire Rhodes, and 1. Christy Marvin. Picture: Matias Saari
Males
On July 1, David Norris was second on the Cirque Sequence race in Utah. He made it to Alaska in time for the July 4 Mount Marathon Race and received for the fourth time. Norris, who set the course file at 41:26 in 2016, received this yr in 44:51. Norris additionally received in 2018 and 2021.
David Norris takes the win on the 2023 Mount Marathon Race. Picture: Mick Dees
Darren Thomas and Lars Arneson have been second and third in 46:35 and 46:44, respectively.
Taylor Turney completed ninth total however set a brand new downhill course file at 9:54. It was six seconds higher than Eric Strabel’s outdated downhill file from 2013, and it was 68 seconds sooner than anybody else coming down this yr.
Amongst decrease 48ers, Andy Wacker received to the highest fifth and completed sixth in 48:27. Zach Miller was eleventh up, however completed twenty second in 51:25, and Paddy O’Leary was equally challenged on the downhill towards a Twenty third-place 51:52 run.
Badwater 135 Mile – Loss of life Valley, California
Some 100 baddies chased the white line by means of Loss of life Valley, and 89 received to the end on the base of Mount Whitney.
Girls
Ashley Paulson was sensational. Paulson was the race’s total winner, and a repeat girls’s winner. She gained the final word lead late and completed in 21:44. That’s approach higher than the 24:09 outdated course file she ran final yr. Solely 2019 males’s winner Yoshihiko Ishikawa (Japan) has ever run sooner, and his 21:33 is simply barely sooner than what Paulson ran this yr.
Second-place Sonia Ahuja completed in 25:42, a time that might win this race most years, and third-place Maree Connor completed in 27:49.
[Editor’s Note: Ashley Paulson served a six-month doping sanction, in 2015 and 2016, due to a doping violation in triathlon for a positive test for ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).]
Males
Longtime chief Simen Holvik (Norway) received the boys’s race in 22:28. The aforementioned Ishikawa was second in 23:52 and Harvey Lewis was third in 27:06. It was Lewis’s twelfth consecutive Badwater end.
Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB – St. Bernard, Switzerland
It was the race’s 14th yr and there have been some 3,000 runners throughout its a number of totally different races.
The 140k (87 miles) race went off at 10:00 p.m. Among the many 350 starters of this longest distance, solely 208 completed the difficult course. Corine Kagerer and Mathieu Clément, each of the host nation, received in 25:30 and 20:16. Clément received the Canyons by UTMB 100 Mile in April in a dash. He had time for a extra leisurely end right here, 61 minutes higher than anybody else. Kagerer was even additional forward, successful by 64 minutes.
Katarzyna Solińska (Poland) and Thibaut Garrivier (France) received the 76k race in 10:34 and 9:00.
Holy cow, Marcela Vašínová (Czech Republic) likes to race. She raced the Path World Championships 80k on June 9, received the Minotaur Skyrace in Canada two weeks later, after which received the 50k right here in 5:29. Daniel Antonioli (Italy) led the boys in 4:38.
Marcela Vašínová wins the 2023 Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB 50k. Picture: Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB
Daniel Antonioli takes the win on the 2023 Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB 50k. Picture: Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB
Val D’Aran by UTMB – Lleida, Spain
The 100-mile race was stopped earlier than anybody completed as a consequence of hostile climate.
The 110k lower brief too, however 47 runners received to the end earlier than it was stopped. The primary 4 girls have been among the many finishers group, and Azara García (Spain) triumphed in 14:14. Mari Klakegg Fenre (Norway) and Núria Picas (Spain) have been second and third in 14:38 and 15:32, respectively. Raul Octavian Butaci (Romania) was the boys’s winner in 12:45. Alban Berson (France) was second in 12:57, and Sebastian Krogvig (Norway) was third in 13:12.
The whole thing of the 55k podiums was stuffed with Spanish runners. Oihana Kortazar lined the observe in 6:32, quarter-hour sooner than second place, and males’s winner Raúl Criado completed in 5:41.
Gran Path Courmayeur – Courmayeur, Italy
The race’s eleventh version hosted 1,500 runners from 40 nations for its races in entrance of Mont Blanc. Italian runners, nevertheless, received each race.
Lisa Borzani and Simone Corsini received the 100k race in 17:28 and 15:02.
Lisa Borzani breaks the tape to win the 2023 Gran Path Courmayeur 100k. Picture: Alessandro Zambianchi
Simone Corsini, the 2023 Gran Path Courmayeur 100k males’s champion. Picture: Alessandro Zambianchi
The 55k winners Giuditta Turini and Gianluca Galeati completed in 6:36 and 5:35.
Fabiola Conti and Mattia Reggidori triumphed within the 30k at 3:22 and a couple of:57.
Restonica Path by UTMB – Corte, France
These races have been all on Corsica, a mountainous French island within the Mediterranean Sea.
The 100-mile winners Eva Marie Sperger (Germany) and Lambert Santelli (France) completed in 20:59 and 15:15. Santelli was 85 minutes higher than his closest pursuer.
Louise Serban-Penhoat (France) and Thibaut Baronian (France) received the 50k in 3:59 and three:11, respectively.
Further Races and Runs
Brisbane Path Extremely – Brisbane, Australia
The race was a part of the Spartan Path World Championships. Cecilia Mattas (Australia) and Piotr Babis (Poland) received the 100-mile race in 22:23 and 18:59, and Courtney Gilfillan (Australia) and Ben Duffus (Australia) received the 30k in 3:02 and a couple of:36. Full outcomes.
Sinister 7 Extremely – Crowsnest Go, Alberta, Canada
Rugged and distant within the Canadian Rockies, the race celebrated 100-mile winners Claudia Blandford and Scott Cooper in 25:58 and 19:16. The 50-mile winners Mandi Goudie and Tristan Chart completed in 10:15 and eight:57, and Emilie Mann and Brandon Miller received the 50k in 5:22 and 4:15. Full outcomes.
Knee Knackering 50k – North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Chessa Adsit-Morris and Brandon Gardiner received the longtime race in 5:20 and 4:42. Full outcomes.
Ultramook 50k – Tillamook, Oregon
Madalyne Staab and Kyle Peterson set new course data in 4:47 and three:39. Full outcomes.
Siskiyou Out Again – Ashland, Oregon
Official outcomes aren’t but out, however social media factors to Timothy Olson turning again the clock to win the 50-mile race. Can somebody share who received the ladies’s race? Full outcomes (when out there).
U.S. Observe and Subject Championships – Eugene, Oregon
There was slightly little bit of crossover with path working.
It was simply three weeks in the past that Anna Gibson received the Damaged Arrow Skyrace Vertical Kilometer and took second within the 23k. And now, Gibson, who additionally simply signed with the Brooks Beasts observe membership, ran a 4:11 1,500-meter within the prelims and adopted it up with a 4:09 private finest within the ultimate spherical, putting tenth.
That very same weekend three weeks in the past, Marybeth and Sam Chelanga have been each second on the Mount Washington Street Race. The married couple completed 14th and ninth within the 10,000-meter observe race right here in 34:01 and 28:52.
Silverton Alpine 50k and Marathon – Silverton, Colorado
The Aravaipa Working occasion topped Corinne Shalvoy and Nicholas Parton as 50k winners in 5:15 and 4:35, and Jaycie Thomsen and TJ David have been the marathon’s finest in 3:53 and three:41. Full outcomes.
Kendall Mountain Run – Silverton, Colorado
Additionally an Aravaipa Working occasion, this one goes 12 miles up and down 13,066-foot Kendall Mountain. Lara Hamilton received the ladies’s race in 2:03, and Noah Williams repeated as males’s champ in 1:45. Full outcomes.
Whiterock Extremely 50k – Coon Rapids, Iowa
Lindsey Burton and Kevin Tiffany have been the 50 miler’s quickest in 11:17 and seven:59, and Elizabeth Krupicka and Jason Downing received the 50k in 5:34 and 4:13. Full outcomes.
Buckeye Path 50k – Brecksville, Ohio
Stacy Billig went slightly below 5 hours with a 4:59 successful time, and Israel Merkle was simply over 4 hours with a 4:00 males’s successful time. Full outcomes.
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