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September 30, 2024 – iRunFar

This Week in Running Justin Mock TWIRThe Bear 100 Mile, the Berlin Marathon, and the Birkie Path Run Competition are all right here.

So too are races from Athens, Greece, to Zeanuri, Spain.

Gorbeia Suzien Skyrace – Zeanuri, Spain

The Skyrunner World Sequence comes at you quick, this was the 12 months’s fifteenth world sequence race. A subject of 600 runners from 30 nations challenged the muddy 32-kilometer course and its 2,400 meters of climbing in Gorbeia Nationwide Park.

Júlia Font (Spain) overtook longtime chief Daniela Oemus (Germany) within the closing kilometer. The pair had been solely seven seconds aside with Font in entrance and a 3:45 end time for every. Onditz Iturbe (Spain) was third in 3:49.

Júlia Font - 2024 Gorbeia Suzien Skyrace - women's winner

Júlia Font, the 2024 Gorbeia Suzien Skyrace girls’s winner. Picture: Skyrunner World Sequence

Males’s winner Luca Del Pero (Italy) was simply over a minute sooner than Manuel Merillas (Spain) at 3:00 and three:01, respectively. Lorenzo Rota (Italy) took the ultimate podium spot in 3:03.

Full outcomes (when out there).

Luca Del Pero - 2024 Gorbeia Suzien Skyrace - men's winner

Luca Del Pero, the 2024 Gorbeia Suzien Skyrace males’s winner. Picture: Skyrunner World Sequence

Spartathlon – Athens, Greece

Extensively thought to be one of many world’s premier highway ultramarathons, the historic run went 153 miles from Athens to Sparta. This 12 months was the race’s forty second version and there have been 400 runners from 55 totally different nations.

Noora Honkala (Finland) received the ladies’s race in 24:25. She was second a 12 months in the past in 23:23. Honkala now has the second- and fourth-fastest occasions within the race’s historical past. Carmen Maria Perez (Spain) was second in 25:34 and Line Caliskaner (Norway) was third in 26:24. Defending champion and course document holder Camille Herron (U.S.) didn’t end.

It was 4 in a row within the males’s race. Fotis Zisimopoulos (Greece) received for the fourth 12 months in a row and was over three hours higher than everybody else. Zisimopoulos ran 20:18. He missed his personal course document, however that’s the race’s second-fastest run ever. Fernando Martínez Román (Uruguay), final 12 months’s third placer, was second in 23:38 and Robin Florian (France) was third in 23:51.

Full outcomes.

The Bear 100 Mile – Logan, Utah

The purpose-to-point course climbed 22,816 ft from northern Utah to southern Idaho.

Careth Arnold received the ladies’s race in 20:25, which surpassed Kaytlyn Gerbin’s 2018 course document of 20:45:48. Arnold completed third general too. Kathryn Graham and Rebekah Rose had been second and third in 23:14 and 24:20.

Careth Arnold - 2024 Bear 100 Mile - women's winner

Careth Arnold after successful the 2024 Bear 100 Mile in a brand new course document. Picture: Bethany Draper

Simply three weeks in the past Jose Cruz was second on the Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile. He doubled again and received right here in 19:55. Cruz completed simply forward of second-place Henry Harris and his 20:18 run. Third-place Kris Brown reached the Bear Lake end line in 21:26.

Full outcomes.

Jose Cruz - 2024 Bear 100 Mile - men's winner

Jose Cruz, the 2024 Bear 100 Mile males’s winner. Picture: Bethany Draper

Extra Races and Runs

Berlin Marathon – Berlin, Germany

Checking in on path runners and ultrarunners, third on the 2023 World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race, Filimon Abraham (Germany) ripped by way of midway in 1:02:24 and completed in 2:08:52. That positioned him twenty sixth general. Full outcomes.

Dick Collins Firetrails 50 Mile and Golden Hills Marathon – Castro Valley, California

Amanda O’Brien and James Scanlan received the longtime 50 miler in 8:32 and seven:34, and Amanda Younger and Tommy Evans led the marathon in 5:39 and three:54. Full outcomes.

Flagstaff Sky Peaks – Flagstaff, Arizona

First within the 50-mile race and its traverse of the San Francisco Peaks had been Claire Rogan and Joseph Lewis in 9:48 and eight:58. The 50k winners Erin Moyer and Eric Smart completed in 5:10 and 6:01, with Moyer the race’s general winner. Full outcomes.

Mt. Taylor 50k – Grants, New Mexico

Johanna Hamblett and Joshua Reddish championed the race in 5:40 and 5:04, respectively. Full outcomes.

Bear Chase – Lakewood, Colorado

Susan Hahn was first lady within the 50 miler at Bear Creek Lake State Park in 8:49, and males’s winner Kosuke Amano completed in 7:57. Dayna McLaughlin and Brian Runyon had been quickest within the 50k in 4:53 and 4:09. Full outcomes.

Crested Butte Extremely – Crested Butte, Colorado

Each Emily Demarco and Brian Martin scored a brand new course document on the 50-mile race. The 2 winners clocked 9:53 and eight:28. Within the 55k, it was Caitlin Standifer and Robbie Mason on high in 5:11 and 5:05. Full outcomes.

West Line Winder 50k – Buena Vista, Colorado

Simply 53 seconds separated girls’s first and second. Whitney Barrett beat Natalie Kalin to the road in 4:51. Kalin was second in 4:52, and third-place Blake Wageman completed beneath 5 hours too in 4:59. Barrett received final 12 months’s race as effectively. The boys’s race was almost as shut. Justin Grunewald put two minutes on 2022 winner Ryan Smith within the closing 5 miles to win in 3:54. Smith’s 3:56 was two minutes higher than he ran in 2022, and Paul Terranova was third in 4:18. Full outcomes.

Sawatch Ascent 50k – Nathrop, Colorado

The Sunday race was a part of a possible doubleheader with the very close by West Line Winder 50k on Saturday. The ladies’s podium ran with Lindsay AndersonAsh Warner, and Brianne Steed knocking out the course’s 7,000 ft of acquire in 6:07, 6:29, and 6:46. Kieran Nay rolled the boys’s race in 4:58. Ryan Smith was second for the second straight day in 5:26, and Reid Burrows (Canada) was third in 5:48. Full outcomes.

Birkie Path Run Competition – Cable, Wisconsin

The occasion’s marathon race was this 12 months’s USATF Path Marathon Nationwide Championships. The fields look fairly small although. There have been simply 16 girls’s finishers and solely 22 males’s finishers. On the high, Anna Dalton ran away with the ladies’s crown in 3:24. Gracia Sich and Katia Wanish had been second and third in 3:38 and three:51. Brian Whitfield led the boys in 2:59. Professional miler-turned-trail-runner Ben Blankenship was second in 3:03, and Jack Spaulding took third in 3:14. Full outcomes.

Cat’s Tail Path Marathon – Shandaken, New York

Runners loved close to excellent climate for the race’s tenth version on a rugged course within the Catskill Mountains. Amy Demarco received for the second 12 months in a row with a 5:35 end, and Andrew Hutchinson set a course document of 4:09 in his marathon debut. Full outcomes (when out there).

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