The Golden Path World Sequence got here to America, and prize-money wealthy mountain races just like the Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile and The Rut shined on a busy September weekend.
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Headlands 27k – Mill Valley, California
The roughly 18-mile race was a part of the Golden Path World Sequence (GTWS), and it occurred on a course that gained 4,200 ft of elevation on a few of Marin County’s most well-known trails. The ladies’s and males’s races uniquely ran on separate days. The ladies starred on Saturday and the lads raced on Sunday.
Ladies
Thirty minutes into the race, Madalina Florea (Romania) and Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) had opened a minute lead on the remainder of the sphere. The 25-year-old Individuals Lauren Gregory and Anna Gibson ran in third and fourth, every 20 seconds forward of the subsequent group of chasers.
Joyce Muthoni Njeru, the 2024 Headlands 27k girls’s winner. Picture: Golden Path Sequence/Headlands 27k/@Rising.Story /@MathisDecroux
By the point they reached Stinson Seaside an hour later, 90 minutes into the race, Muthoni Njeru had gained a 13-second lead on Florea, and Judith Wyder (Switzerland) had overtaken Gibson for fourth. The 2024 OCC 55k winner Miao Yao (China) hadn’t but discovered the quicker tempo and was again in tenth.
Muthoni Njeru stretched that lead additional the remainder of the best way and the highest three stayed in that order to the end. Muthoni Njeru received in 2:17:36, and it was her second GTWS victory of the 12 months. Florea was second in 2:18:23, and Gregory completed third at 2:19:16.
Wyder and Yao, the 2024 OCC runner-up and winner simply two weeks in the past, completed fourth and sixth, respectively.
The ladies’s prime 10 was:
- Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 2:17:36
- Madalina Florea (Romania) – 2:18:23
- Lauren Gregory (U.S.) – 2:19:16
- Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – 2:22:21
- Oria Liaci (Switzerland) – 2:24:27
- Miao Yao (China) – 2:25:26
- Anna Gibson (U.S.) – 2:25:40
- Julia Font (Spain) – 2:25:54
- Allie Ostrander (U.S.) – 2:27:05
- Rachel Tomajczyk (U.S.) – 2:27:33
(In 2023, Ostrander was suspended for 4 months after testing constructive for canrenone, a metabolite of spironolactone, after it was decided that she mistakenly took the drug with out first acquiring a World Anti-Doping Company Therapeutic Use Exemption.)
Males
Early on it regarded like a revenge run for Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) and Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland). Ombogo Kiriago, this 12 months’s Sierre-Zinal runner-up, was solely sixth eventually weekend’s Cirque Sequence race. And Bonnet dropped from the OCC 55k two weeks in the past. These two led 24 minutes into the race on the Dipsea Peak timing level alongside Elhousine Elazzoui (Morocco).
That three-man group stayed collectively for the subsequent hour and solely Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) was shut, however even he’d misplaced a number of extra seconds and now was 19 seconds behind in fourth.
Ombogo Kiriago and Elazzoui dropped Bonnet within the remaining miles and Elazzoui outsprinted Ombogo Kiriago for the victory. Elazzoui received the race in 1:55:27. Ombogo Kiriago was second in 1:55:29, and Kipngeno overtook Bonnet for third. Kipngeno completed in 1:56:01 and Bonnet pale to a fourth-place 1:57:58.
Elhousine Elazzoui, the 2024 Headlands 27k males’s winner. Picture: Golden Path Sequence/Headlands27k/@SODSTUDIOS
The boys’s prime 10 was:
- Elhousine Elazzoui (Morocco) – 1:55:27
- Philemon Kiriago Ombogo (Kenya) – 1:55:29
- Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 1:56:01
- Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) – 1:57:58
- Christian Allen (U.S.) – 2:01:39
- Miguel Corbera (Spain) – 2:02:12
- Frederic Tranchand (France) – 2:02:46
- Cesare Maestri (Italy) – 2:03:31
- Bartłomiej Przedwojewski (Poland) – 2:04:01
- Cade Michael (U.S.) – 2:04:34
The Rut Mountain Runs – Massive Sky, Montana
The three-day Montana mountain working celebration paid out a $3,500 prize purse for the Vertical Okay, and $9,000 in every of the 28k and 50k. The races have been highlighted by double and returning winners from earlier races and earlier years.
Lone Peak Vertical Kilometer
After a begin on the Massive Sky Resort base space, the race climbed 3,632 ft to the 11,166-foot summit of Lone Peak, all inside 2.8 miles, and there was snow on the prime.
Jennifer Lichter hit the excessive level end first within the girls’s race at 56:59. Klaire Rhodes was second in 58:30, and Caitlin Patterson climbed up in 60:28 for third.
Males’s winner Cam Smith began his weekend with a 46:08 race to the highest. Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau and Ryan Becker have been second and third on the summit in 47:41 and 48:40.
28k
Make it three in a row for Bailey Kowalczyk. After a second-place end in 2021, Kowalcyzk has dominated the ladies’s race. This 12 months marked her third straight victory. Kowalcyzk received this 12 months’s race in 3:35. Doubling again from the Vertical Okay, Jennifer Lichter was an in depth second in 3:37, and Denali Strabel was third in 3:55.
And make it two in a row for Cam Smith. After successful Friday’s Vertical Okay, he received Saturday’s 28k too. Smith received in 3:03. He earlier received this race in 2022. Scott Patterson and 2023 race winner Johnny Luna-Lima have been second and third in 3:10 and three:11, respectively.
50k
Vertical Okay runner-up Klaire Rhodes scored a brand new girls’s 50k course report in 5:45. Jazmine Lowther (Canada) was second in 5:53, a bounce-back run after dropping on the CCC 100k two weeks in the past, and Hannah Osowski completed third in 5:56.
Michelino Sunseri received the lads’s 50k for the second straight 12 months. He completed in 5:01. Behind the race winner, Ryan Becker and Scott Patterson earned their second podium finishes of the weekend with second- and third-place 5:09 and 5:20 runs. Patterson was fourth within the Vertical Okay too in his three-race weekend.
Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile – Steamboat Springs, Colorado
The race was once more North America’s richest extremely. Race winners earned $15,000, and had the prospect for even larger money with prime and two-person workforce bonuses. The entire winnings totaled over $100,000 and prize cash was paid right down to the seventh-place girls’s and males’s finishers.
Ladies
Emilie Mann (Canada) took down Michele Yates’s longstanding course report within the girls’s race. Mann grew to become the race’s first sub-20 hour girls’s finisher with a 19:48 run. It seems to have been Mann’s debut 100-mile race too, although she’d earlier coated the space in a yard extremely. The previous 20:16 course greatest dated to 2013 and was run as a part of Yates’s “UltraRunning Journal” (North American) Ultrarunner of the Yr marketing campaign.
Emilie Mann, 2024 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile girls’s champ, on the primary climb. Picture: Kellie Thompson/Hidden Antelope Images/@hiddenantelope
Second-place Leah Yingling was barely behind that outdated course report too. Yingling completed in 20:19. Shea Aquilano crossed the road subsequent, however was later disqualified when it emerged that she had by chance gone off the course, and so Barrett Grey claimed the third podium spot.
Eleven years after that course report run, Yates was the seventh-place lady in 22:29.
Males
Richard Lockwood ran away from the sphere late and have become a two-time Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile winner. His 17:24 end this 12 months was method quicker than his 18:01 successful time from 2022, and it was the race’s third-fastest end ever too.
Richard Lockwood, 2024 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile males’s champion, greeted on the end by race director Fred Abramowitz. Picture: Kellie Thompson/Hidden Antelope Images/@hiddenantelope
Second- and third-place Adam Loomis and Christopher Hammes completed in 18:12 and 18:56, respectively. Loomis overcame a drop eventually 12 months’s race, and Hammes earned his fourth end on the race.
World Masters Mountain Operating Championships – Canfranc, Spain
The twenty third World Masters Mountain Operating Championships introduced 1,400 runners from 35 completely different nations to the Pyrenees. It was the occasion’s first time internet hosting Uphill, Basic, and Lengthy Distance races. The competitors was open to runners aged 35 and older. As with different races in Central Europe on the weekend, colder temperatures moved into the world and even introduced snow to the excessive peaks.
Uphill
The primary 10 girls accomplished the 1,000-meter climb and its 6 kilometers in distance in beneath an hour, however Camilla Magliano (Italy) was practically two minutes forward of everybody else in 53:34, and that was simply the beginning of her weekend. Viktoria Wilkinson (U.Okay.) and Sladjana Zagorac (Serbia) have been second and third in 55:26 and 55:31.
Camilla Magliano, the 2024 World Masters Mountain Operating Championships Uphill girls’s winner. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Eduard Hernandez (Spain) received an in depth males’s race in opposition to Thomas Roach (U.Okay.) by simply 18 seconds. The 2 frontrunners hit the highest in 43:45 and 44:04, and third-place Andrew Douglas (U.Okay.) got here subsequent in 45:04.
(Roach served a three-month World Athletics doping ban from October 2021 to January 2022 after testing constructive for Carboxy-THC on the 2021 World Masters Mountain Operating Championships in Stubai, Austria.)
Eduard Hernandez, the 2024 World Masters Mountain Operating Championships Uphill males’s winner. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Lengthy Distance
The Saturday race stretched 34k in distance and with 2,000 meters of elevation achieve throughout two large climbs. It was once more Magliano main the ladies. She received gold in 3:40. Frenchwomen Mylène Da Costa Reis and Maud Combarieu joined her on the rostrum in 3:54 and three:59.
Roach doubled again from his silver within the Vertical race to win the lads’s Lengthy Distance occasion in 3:06. Daniel Remon Senoran and Antonio Alfonso Ruiz Rojo, each of Spain, have been second and third in 3:16 and solely 30 seconds aside.
Basic
The 17k race went up and down with 1,000 meters of ascent and who else wouldn’t it be first on the end aside from Camilla Magliano. The Italian all-star accomplished a formidable three-race sweep of the weekend occasions with a 1:41 end. Kealey Tideswell (Eire) was second in 1:45 and Maria Rebeca Marino Torrado (Spain) completed third in 1:50.
The 2024 World Masters Mountain Operating Championships Basic girls’s podium: 2. Kealey Tideswell, 1. Camilla Magliano, 3. Maria Rebeca Marino Torrado. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Third and first within the Vertical Okay, Andrew Douglas and Eduard Hernandez got here for a rematch. On the up and down course it was Douglas that received in 1:22, barely 13 seconds forward of second-place Hernandez. Xavier Tomasa Serrano (Spain) was third in 1:28.
Andrew Douglas, 2024 World Masters Mountain Operating Championships Basic males’s winner. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Tor des Géants – Courmayeur, Italy
Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) led all the 205-mile run and set a brand new course report in 79:10. Hartmuth grew to become the primary lady to complete the journey in beneath 80 hours. Second-place and former course report holder Sabrina Verjee (U.Okay.) was second in 84:03 and Claire Bannwarth (France) was third in 85:02. Bannwarth was 18th at UTMB two weeks in the past.
François D’Haene (France) received a spirited males’s race in 69:08. Although 4 hours forward of second, D’Haene didn’t achieve the lead till late within the lengthy haul race. Beñat Marmissolle (France) was second in 73:10 and Martin Perrier (Switzerland) completed third in 75:35.
Extra Races and Runs
Wildstrubel by UTMB – Valais, Switzerland
Winter climate minimize the 50k race to only 23 miles. Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway) and Jon Albon (U.Okay., lives in Norway) received the reroute in 3:19 and a pair of:59, respectively. Full outcomes.
Plain 100 Mile – Plain, Washington
The race mirrors its location. It’s plain with no course markings, no support stations, and no pacers. Christine Mosley and Jeremy Douglas (Canada) received in 28:40 and 22:23. Full outcomes.
Ouray 50 Mile – Ouray, Colorado
Isabella Poulos and Lucas Foreman ran away with wins in 16:55 and 15:18, respectively. The little sister of the Ouray 100 Mile, the 50-mile occasion covers the again half of the 100-mile course and has greater than 20,000 ft of elevation achieve via the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. Poulos led the general race for the primary half earlier than handing the lead over to Foreman after the fourth of seven climbs and completed a formidable second total. Full outcomes.
Isabella Poulos, the 2024 Ouray 50 Mile girls’s champion. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Lucas Foreman, the 2024 Ouray 50 Mile males’s champion. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
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