The Thanksgiving vacation dulled the race schedule within the U.S., however Extremely-Path Cape City placed on a full slate of races in South Africa. And we’re excited concerning the path runners and ultrarunners lining up at subsequent weekend’s California Worldwide Marathon too.
Extremely-Path Cape City – Cape City, South Africa
100 Mile
The 100-mile course ran as a giant loop that gained 7,516 meters (24,659 toes) of elevation. Simply over 100 runners began the problem. A wealthy prize purse despatched 60,000 Rand ($3,190) to the winners with prize cash going three deep.
Aleksei Tolstenko (Russia), second final 12 months, received this 12 months’s race in 21:53. That’s 27 minutes slower than in 2022. South Africans Douglas Pickard and Chris Ngaka have been second and third in 23:53 and 25:53.
Aleksei Tolstenko celebrates profitable the 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100 Mile. Photograph: Sam Clark
The ladies’s podium was fully made up of South African runners. Nicolette Griffioen completed in 26:11 to guide the group. Naomi Model, final 12 months’s third-placer, was second in 29:47, and Jo Keppler was third in 31:59.
Nicolette Griffioen on her method to profitable the 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100 Mile. Photograph: Sam Clark
100k
The occasion’s best distance, the 100-kilometer race, pushed two large climbs into the race’s first half. Race winners every earned 40,000 Rand, or roughly $2,100. iRunFar earlier shared the better race dynamics.
A 12 months in the past Dmitry Mityaev (Russia) completed in a first-place tie. This 12 months, nobody may sustain. Mityaev received in 10:43. Caleb Olson (U.S.) and Anthony Costales (U.S.) have been second and third in 11:02 and 11:24.
Dmitry Mityaev on his method to profitable the 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k. Photograph: iRunFar/Neville Sharwood
Ruth Croft (New Zealand) championed the ladies’s race in 12:12. That’s three minutes higher than Camille Bruyas’s 2022 profitable time, although the course has some adjustments. Marianne Hogan (Canada) and Ekaterina Mityaeva (Russia) got here by means of in second and third in 12:39 and 12:44, respectively.
Ruth Croft doing a little bit of seashore working en path to profitable the 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k. Photograph: iRunFar/Neville Sharwood
55k
Nearly 500 runners began the 55k, run as a point-to-point peninsula traverse that totaled 2,706 meters (8,878 toes) of elevation acquire. The 55k gave out prize cash too with 20,000 Rand, or simply over $1,000, going to the winners.
Robbie Simpson (U.Okay.) repeated as males’s victor, this 12 months in 5:31. South African runners Mvuyisi Gcogco and Joshua Chigome have been second and third in 5:43 and 6:10, respectively.
Robbie Simpson takes victory on the 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 55k. Photograph: Sam Clark
Ladies’s winner Toni McCann (South Africa) completed a breakout 2023 with a 5:47 run. That smashed the earlier course file. McCann’s 12 months was earlier highlighted by a win on the OCC in France. Second-place Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) bought below the previous course finest too with a 5:56 run, and Lisa Wimmer (Germany) was third in 6:27.
Toni McCann, the 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City ladies’s champion. Photograph: Devin Paisley
Quad Dipsea – Mill Valley, California
There have been lots of milestone anniversaries this 12 months, and it was Quad Dipsea’s fortieth 12 months. The race is run as a double out-and-back on the famed Dipsea Path, totaling over 28 miles with 9,000 toes of elevation acquire.
Males
Nick Handel repeated as males’s winner in 3:48. That’s the race’s third-best end ever, and 7 minutes sooner than he ran in 2022. Adam Loomis was second in 3:56, and Mario Mendoza completed in 4:01 for third.
Nick Handel, the 2023 Quad Dipsea males’s winner. Photograph: John Medinger
Ladies
There have been 4 lead adjustments within the ladies’s race and it wasn’t till the fourth lap that 2021 winner Arden Younger (Canada) moved to the entrance. Younger received this 12 months’s race in 4:39. That ranks because the course’s second-fastest ever and is eight minutes higher than Younger’s earlier profitable time.
Lindsay Allison was second in 4:41, and Zuzana Trnovcova was third in 4:49.
Extra Races and Runs
Himan Path Run Race – Oman
Approach out within the Center East on a course partly within the Al Hajar Mountains, Hamdan Al Khatri received the 110k race for the host nation in 16:55. Jason Schlarb (U.S.) was second in 17:23. Aziza El Amrany (Morocco) led the ladies’s finishers in 23:53. Full outcomes.
The Derby 50k – Ellerbe, North Carolina
Radha Sahoo and Danielle Soroka received the race in 4:09 and 4:24. Full outcomes.
Subsequent Weekend – IAU 24-Hour World Championships – Taipei, Taiwan
The world’s finest 24-hour runners are descending on Taipei, a metropolis of two.6 million individuals. The race begins on Friday, December 1, at 10:00 a.m. native time and shall be run over a 2k lap. The present 24-hour world-record holders Aleksandr Sorokin (Lithuania) and Camille Herron (U.S.) are each racing and favored to win. Sorokin’s finest for the mounted time is 198.6 miles, run in September 2022, and Herron totaled 167.8 miles in 2019.
Subsequent Weekend – California Worldwide Marathon – Sacramento, California
We don’t discuss an excessive amount of about highway marathons, however the California Worldwide Marathon (CIM) is a good likelihood to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, and several other path runners and ultrarunners will attempt to do exactly that, or to additional enhance their private bests. The lads have to run below 2:18 and ladies below 2:37 to qualify for the Olympic Marathon Trials.
Males
- CJ Albertson – 50k world file holder
- Zack Beavin – 1st 2022 Mad Metropolis 100k
- Seth Demoor – 4th 2023 Pikes Peak Ascent
- Willie Milam – 1st 2023 and 2022 Imogene Move Run
- Rajpaul Pannu – 2nd 2023 Tunnel Hill 50 Mile
Ladies
- Rachel Drake – 4th 2023 Kodiak by UTMB 50k
- Courtney Olsen – 4th 2022 IAU 100k World Championships
- EmKay Sullivan – 1st 2023 Mammoth 50k
- Devon Yanko – 1st 2022 Javelina 100 Mile
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