The Squamish 50, well-known for its 11,000 toes of climbing and descent via scenic trails with lovely mountain views, doubled because the 2024 Canadian Path Working Championships on Saturday and Sunday. Each the 50-mile race and the 50K noticed blistering performances–each the lads and the ladies set new 50K course information. Different high finishers clocked among the quickest instances within the race’s historical past.
With a first-place end within the girls’s 50K, Jade Belzberg clocked 5:16:07 to take down the earlier course document of 5:20:39, which had stood since 2014. “I’m thrilled to have lastly had the prospect to run a Canadian path race, and it felt superb to take action on the Canadian champs, of all issues!”
Within the 50-mile race, Marcus Ribi (the third-place finisher from 2021) crossed the road greater than quarter-hour forward of the next-fastest finisher, and ran the second-fastest time in course historical past, 7:17:54, to simply take a spot on the Canadian path operating staff headed to the 2025 World Championships. “Squamish was at all times going to be the large purpose race of the 12 months for me, and I knew it’d be a quick one with the 2 worlds spots up for grabs,” he mentioned. “I’m tremendous proud of the end result and searching ahead to with the ability to signify Canada in Spain subsequent 12 months.”
Within the girls’s 50-mile class, Priscilla Forgie, winner of the 2022 occasion, returned for one more win with the third-fastest time ever–8:27:46. “It was so fantastic to return to Squamish,” she mentioned. “The paths, the individuals and the environment are at all times unbelievable.” Forgie will even be heading to Spain for the World Championships.
Some notably bold ultrarunners participated within the 50-50 occasion–which means they ran the 50-mile race on Saturday and doubled again for 50K race on Sunday. 2024 Quebec Mega Path 100-mile winner Jean-François Cauchon completed his 50-mile and 50K legs in 8:21:38 and 5:37:57, respectively, taking the 50/50 win.
The 50-50 second-place finisher was Alexandre Ricard, who gained the 50K race; he clocked 5:33:16 to demolish the earlier 50K course document of 4:45:11 by greater than 12 minutes, after racing the 50-mile yesterday.
