Austria introduced two massive races to the weekend, and the U.S. took us to World’s Finish and different wild locations. This Week in Working is a various mixture of races and tales. Completely happy Monday!
European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships – Annecy, France
Particular person and staff medals had been up for grabs throughout Uphill Mountain, Path, and Up and Down Mountain races. The races occurred over three days with many runners doubling on the Friday and Sunday shorter distances.
Uphill Mountain Race
The Friday, Might 31 race went practically eight kilometers, or 5 miles, all uphill. As with a number of different races in western and central Europe on the weekend, the senior races had been run in rain and on mud.
Joe Steward (U.Ok.) raced up in 42:37, profitable by over a minute. Jacob Adkin (U.Ok.) was second in 43:55 and Lukas Ehrle (Germany), simply 19 years outdated, was third in 44:23.
Joe Steward profitable the 2024 European Athletics Off-Highway Working Working Championships Uphill Mountain Race. Picture: Gwendal Hamon/FFA
Girls’s winner Nina Engelhard (Germany) charged to the entrance early and hit the highest in 50:08, additionally profitable by over a minute. Scout Adkin (U.Ok.) matched her brother with a silver medal in 51:43, and Mădălina Florea (Romania) was third in 52:33.
Nina Engelhard profitable the 2024 European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Uphill Mountain Race. Picture: Gwendal Hamon/FFA
Path Race
Day two was the lengthy course, a roughly 57k mountain monitor, and French runners swept each the boys’s and ladies’s podiums.
For the boys, Thomas Cardin, Benjamin Roubiol, and Loïc Rolland completed on the high in 4:58, 5:04, and 5:07.
And for the ladies, it was Clementine Geoffray, Blandine L’Hirondel, and Adeline Martin on the high in 5:44, 5:53, and 5:56.
The triumphant French ladies on the 2024 European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Path Race (l-to-r): 3. Adeline Martin, 2. Blandine L’Hirondel, 1. Clementine Geoffray, and 4. Julie Roux. Picture: Alanis Duc/FFA
Up and Down Mountain Race
Skyrunning ace Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) gained particular person gold within the Sunday males’s race in 1:11:28, solely three seconds forward of Lukas Ehrle, who had bested Delorenzi by one place and 18 seconds in taking bronze within the Uphill Mountain Race on Fridays. As such, it was Ehrle’s second particular person medal on the weekend. Theodore Klein (France), who was sixth within the Uphill Mountain Race, collected a bronze in 1:11:49. The race ran 16k in distance and Delorenzi overcame a incorrect flip to realize the win, and Klein overcame a late muddy fall to carry onto third.
Uphill Mountain Race winner Nina Engelhard doubled again for a second gold on the weekend. Engelhard gained a detailed race towards Judith Wyder (Switzerland) and Mădălina Florea. Solely 28 seconds separated the three, with Engelhard on the entrance in 1:22:44. Wyder, who was sixth in Friday’s Uphill Mountain Race, vaulted from fourth to second within the ultimate kilometer to complete second in 1:23:09 and Florea was third in 1:23:12.
World Group of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners (GOMU) 48-Hour World Championships – Balatonfüred, Hungary
Bartosz Fudali (Poland), Nicolás de las Heras Monforte (Spain), and Beda Szabolcs (Hungary) earned males’s medals with 447.293, 441.343, and 433.869 kilometers. That’s 277.9, 274.3, and 269.6 miles.
But it surely was the ladies that basically shined at this race.
Three ladies beat the 400-kilometer mark (248.5 miles), and Stine Rex (Denmark) beat Camille Herron’s world report, whereas Irina Masanova (Russia, lives in Cyprus) got here oh-so-close.
Rex and and Masanova each had been extremely shut to one another into the ultimate minutes. Rex totaled 435.564 kilometers and Masanova ran 434.912 kilometers. That’s 270.6 and 270.2 miles.
Herron’s 48-hour world report is 435.336 kilometers, and so Rex went 228 meters additional.
Rex’s run, after all, can be pending ratification, and to make it extra sophisticated, the race was the GOMU world championships, however the Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners (IAU) maintains the 48-hour world report books, and it’s not clear if this race was IAU licensed. We’ve requested the IAU, however haven’t heard again but, so till we’ll defer to the multi-day specialists for larger clarification within the feedback part.
Behind Rex and Masanova and over that 400k mark, third-place Viktória Brown (Hungary, lives in Canada) went for 405.025 kilometers, or 251.7 miles.
Mozart by UTMB – Salzburg, Austria
The occasion introduced 3,200 runners to the birthplace of Mozart and the movie location of “The Sound of Music,” however the climate was this yr’s tune. Sturdy winds, chilly temperatures, and heavy rain pushed the occasion’s two longest races onto alternate programs. A 15-kilometer part of every course was rerouted, however the unique distance and elevation acquire largely held. Many runners remarked at how technical the downhill sections turned within the muddy circumstances.
Did we point out it was moist on the 2024 Mozart by UTMB race? Picture: UTMB
Mozart 100k
The occasion’s longest race went for 65 miles. Jack Chamberlain (U.Ok.) led the boys with an 11:19 end. Paweł Czerniak (Poland) and Carlo Salvetti (Italy) had been up subsequent on the rostrum at 11:28 and 11:33.
Girls’s winner Fiona Pascall ensured a British sweep of the highest spots with a 12:06 run. Claudia Chmielowska (Poland) and Maryline Nakache (France) received beneath 13 hours with 12:44 and 12:52 second- and third-place finishes.
Mozart Extremely
The 50-mile race climbed 13,451 ft on its course round Salzburg. Žan Žepič (Slovenia) gained the boys’s race in 7:50, and Bernhard Mackner (Austria) was second in 8:15. Tomáš Franče (Czech Republic) climbed to the third place in 8:45.
Cristina Santurino (Spain) championed the ladies’s race in 10:21. Sara Ammann (Switzerland) and Katerina Pospisilova (Czech Republic) had been second and third in 10:50 and 11:00.
Mozart Marathon
The highest three males got here in beneath three hours. Andrzej Witek (Poland), Sven Koch (Germany), and Jonas Hesthaug (Norway) hit the rostrum in 2:54, 2:57, and a pair of:58, respectively.
The ladies’s leaders had been particularly shut too. Nuria Gil (Spain) edged Gemma Hillier-Moses (U.Ok.) for the win in 3:35. Hillier-Moses was solely 47 seconds again at 3:36, and third-place Katarina Lovrantova (Slovakia) was proper there too in 3:38.
Hochkönig Skyrace – Maria Alm, Austria
The race was nearly an hour away from the Mozart by UTMB occasion, and excessive nation climate additionally pushed the race to its decrease “B” route. Even then circumstances had been so difficult that greater than 30% of the sector didn’t end the 32k course. The race was the yr’s sixth Skyrunner World Sequence contest.
Males
The boys’s podium was completely Italian. Lorenzo Beltrami, Daniel Antonioli, and William Boffelli completed in 3:15, 3:18, and three:19, respectively.
Girls
Hillary Gerardi (U.S., lives in France) gained the last word lead on the race’s second climb and stayed in entrance for a 4:07 end. Iris Pessey (France) and Ingrid Mutter (Romania) joined Gerardi on the rostrum with 4:14 and 4:15 marks. Pessey and Mutter had been solely 28 seconds aside.
Iris Pessey getting a style of the snow on the 2024 Höchkonig Skyrace. Picture: Antton Guaresti
Extra Races and Runs
MaXi-Race du lac d’Annecy – Lyon, France
The 93k race (58 miles) across the lake featured a bunch of French all stars. After going forwards and backwards for a lot of the boys’s race, Mathieu Blanchard pulled away ever so barely within the ultimate 20k to attain the boys’s win. He completed in 9:10, and Thibaut Garrivier and Aurelien Dunand-Pallaz had been second and third in 9:17 and 9:28. French runners swept the ladies’s podium too. Camille Bruyas was first in 11:00, and Fiona Porte and Anne-Cicile Thevenot had been subsequent 11:12 and 11:47. Full outcomes.
Smith Rock Traditional – Terrebonne, Oregon
Alpine Working’s inaugural occasion at Smith Rock State Park topped Kyle Schenone and Rachel Hawkins as its 50-mile winners in 7:46 and eight:20, and Lance Cundy and Brooke Carmen went the quickest within the 50k at 4:09 and 4:47. Full outcomes.
Rachel Hawkins on her solution to profitable the 2024 Smith Rock Traditional 50 Mile. Picture: Steven Mortinson/Alpine Working
Stumptown 50k – Portland, Oregon
The race was on Memorial Day, Monday, Might 27 in Forest Park and on the favored Wildwood Path. Race winners Clark Morgan and Julija Soryte ripped via course and its 4,000 ft of acquire in 3:54 and 4:38. Full outcomes.
The Stumptown 50k winner, Clark Morgan. Picture: Full Ship Media
Cape Mountain 50k – Florence, Oregon
The 2-lap race was gained by Ian Wildermuth and Alex Borsuk in 4:42 and 4:41. The 2 had been 42 seconds aside with Borsuk each the general and ladies’s winner, and in new course report time. Full outcomes.
Soiled Half Marathon – Bend, Oregon
Mario Mendoza and Jess Schueler gained the path half marathon in 1:16 and 1:32. Each races had been shut. Mendoza was solely 9 seconds in entrance of Bailey Smith and Schueler edged out Lina Mann by 30 seconds. Full outcomes.
Cool Moon Path Runs – Cool, California
The 100-mile wins went to Jakob Walter and Lindsay Kasow in 21:32 and 25:53. Full outcomes.
XTERRA Deadwood Mickelson Path Marathon – Deadwood, South Dakota
On a rails-to-trails course, Andrew Kimpel and Nicolette Schmidt gained in 2:46 and three:19. Full outcomes.
Pi within the Sky – Phoenix, Arizona
The low-key first-year 8 miler despatched runners up Piestewa Peak. High finishers Quinton Burden and Kelsey Sikkema completed in 1:18 and 1:46. Full outcomes.
North Fork 50 Mile – Buffalo Creek, Colorado
Jim Rebenack and Ellen Cannon gained the 50-mile race in 7:22 and eight:59, and Ryan Sullivan and Colleen Noonan had been tops within the 50k in 3:42 and 4:38. Full outcomes.
Crater Path Run 50k – Decorah, Iowa
Race winners Kory Kowallis and Lila Planavsky completed in 4:38 and 6:24. Full outcomes.
Mohican 100 Mile – Loudonville, Ohio
It’s one of many nation’s oldest 100 milers, and this yr it was James Solomon and Brenda Johnson on high in 19:27 and 21:16. Over 50 miles, Jeremy Pope and Shari Hastings gained in 7:39 and 9:57. Full outcomes.
World’s Finish Ultramarathons – Forksville, Pennsylvania
Each the 100k and 50k ran as a single loop largely in World’s Finish State Park. Trevor Fye and Mackenzie Nolan had been on the high of the 100k in 11:39 and 13:50, and Dean Banko and Katie Bicksler had been greatest within the 50k at 5:30 and 6:12. Full outcomes.
Capital Yard Extremely – Lorton, Virginia
That is usually one of many extra aggressive yard ultras and so they had been nonetheless operating after we reported final week. When it was carried out, Levi Yoder outdistanced Jennifer Russo 270 miles to 266 miles. A yr earlier Yoder stopped at 262 miles when Russo totaled 308 miles. Full outcomes.
Previous Dominion 100 Mile – Woodstock, Virginia
Official outcomes haven’t but hit the net on the time of this text’s writing on Sunday evening, however social media factors to John Kelly profitable in 15:44. May a reader be capable of share the ladies’s winner? Full outcomes (when out there).
Cayuga Trails – Ithaca, New York
Within the 50-mile providing, it was Parker Weeks and Meagan Hanifee who took house the wins in 7:36 and eight:57, respectively. Within the 50k, it was Greg Shut in 4:54 and Valeria Garcia-Martinez in 6:05. Full outcomes.
Parker Weeks charging forward on his solution to profitable the 2024 Cayuga Trails 50 Mile. Picture: Goat Manufacturing unit Media
Chocorua Mountain Race – Tamworth, New Hampshire
The roughly 23k race ran a lollipop route with 4,500 ft of elevation acquire via the White Mountain Nationwide Forest. Michael Conley and Abby Bennett had been champs in 2:32 and a pair of:48, respectively. Full outcomes.
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