Canada had a wonderful day on the paths at Puerto Vallarta by UTMB in Mexico on the weekend, with 5 Canadians reaching podiums on the numerous distances within the intense warmth and mountainous terrain of Mexico’s Pacific seaside paradise.
Kelsey Hogan second in 95-mile race
The 95-mile race options greater than 5,000 metres of elevation achieve within the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains. Kelsey Hogan of Regular Brook, N.L., completed second within the girls’s 100-mile race, clocking a time of 23:39:41. She was tenth general. Hogan’s end will get her direct entry into the 2025 UTMB ultimate in Chamonix, France.
“As we speak I used to be actually tuning into simply what I wanted for myself on this run and noticing what working offers me and what this neighborhood offers me,” Hogan stated after the race. “I felt related to those new locations and loved the character and the way stunning it’s to be on the market. I feel we’re all very fortunate to get to try this.”
Hogan received the Quebec Mega Path 100-mile in 2022 and 2023, setting course data each years.
Canadians win 100K and 50K races
Arden Younger of Canmore, Alta., received the ladies’s 100K race, ending in 11:53:51; Younger was eighth general. She was adopted by one other Canadian, Amber Houle, who lives in San Francisco; Houle completed second, in 13:47:20. Alexa Romano of the U.S. was third, in 14:00:25. This race options 3,500m of climbing.
Joren Titus of Calgary received the lads’s 50K race, with a time of 5:20:40. Emerson Trujillo Flores of Peru was second, in 5:25:54, and Eire’s Paddy O’Leary was third, in 10:42:24.
The ladies’s 20K race was extraordinarily shut, with Emilie Mann of Fernie, B.C., ending second in 4:06:02, solely just a little over a minute behind Frida Cervantes of Mexico (4:04:47), nd solely seconds forward of Denisse Sánchez of Mexico in third (4:06:22). Mann received the Run Rabbit Run 100-miler in her debut on the distance earlier this yr, setting a course document.
That is solely the third yr for the race, which pulls members from all over the world, because of the technicality of the programs, the relaxed native tradition and the possibility to unwind within the solar when the racing is finished.
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