Kia ora and pura vida, associates.
We’ve bought New Zealand, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, and West Virginia among the many far off locations on this week’s rundown.
Tarawera by UTMB – Rotorua, New Zealand
102 Mile
A discipline of 450 runners began the 102-mile run that totaled 17,946 ft of elevation acquire.
Konoka Azumi (Japan) led the ladies in 18:24. Chantelle Smith (Australia) and Chrissi Faber (Germany) had been second and third in 19:55 and 21:15, respectively.
Konoka Azumi, the 2024 Tarawera 100 Mile ladies’s winner. Picture: Tarawera Extremely-Path by UTMB
The entrance three males had been all underneath 16 hours, and the breakaway group was over an hour higher than the fourth-place finisher. Males’s winner Adrian MacDonald (U.S.) got here in at 15:00 to guide everybody. Samuel Harvey (New Zealand), maybe finest recognized for his yard extremely runs, was second in 15:29, and Mike Carroll (Australia) ran 15:37 for third.
Adrian MacDonald, the 2024 Tarawera 100 Mile males’s winner. Picture: Cameron McKenzie
102k
iRunFar earlier shared the better race dynamics.
Ruth Croft (New Zealand) led for the whole lot of the ladies’s race towards a 9:14 end. That’s seven minutes higher than her personal 2021 profitable time. Second-place Beth McKenzie (U.S., lives in Australia) completed in 9:38, and Nikki Everton (New Zealand) was third in 10:26.
Ruth Croft on her strategy to profitable the 2024 Tarawera 100k. Picture: Cameron McKenzie
[From 2016 to 2018, Beth McKenzie (nee Gerdes) served a two-year doping sanction after testing positive at the 2016 Ironman Australia for ostarine, a prohibited selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).]
Daniel Jones (New Zealand) repeated as males’s winner with a 7:46 end. That’s a methods off his 7:27 2023 profitable time. Justin Grunewald (U.S.) and Matthew Healy (South Africa) had been second and third in 8:25 and eight:58.
Daniel Jones, the 2024 Tarawera 100k males’s winner. Picture: Cameron McKenzie
50k
Girls’s chief Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) almost broke the four-hour mark along with her 4:01 end. Kate Avery (New Zealand) and Robyn Lesh (U.S.) had been second and third in 4:09 and 4:13, respectively.
Ronnie Sparke (U.Ok.) received an in depth males’s race in opposition to Charlie Hamilton (Australia). The pair ran 3:30 and three:34, and Yutaro Yokouchi (Japan) was third in 3:38.
Jackpot Ultras – Las Vegas, Nevada
The occasion hosted the USATF 100-Mile Highway Nationwide Championships on a 1.17-mile loop. There was a $4,000 prize purse with $1,200 to every of the winners.
Girls
Ashley Paulson was lightning fast within the ladies’s race. She received in 14:04. It’s the sixth-fastest 100-mile run by an American girl ever. Paulson quietly ran 14:37 on the late December 2023 Throughout the Years 100 Mile, and he or she’s registered for Might’s 2024 Cocodona 250 Mile. Lauren Jones was actually quick too in 14:46 for second, and Sierra DeGroff ran 16:38 for third.
[Ashley Paulson served a six-month doping sanction, in 2015 and 2016, due to a doping violation in a triathlon for a positive test for ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).]
Males
It was his 100-mile debut, however Rajpaul Pannu rolled the cube and received large with an 11:58 end. That appears prefer it’s second on the U.S. 100-mile all-time chart. Defending champion Jonah Backstrom was second in 14:11 and Nick Eiben was third in 15:58.
Extra Races and Runs
Seville Marathon – Seville, Spain
The race was actually quick and none of those runners bought on the rostrum, however let’s examine in on mountain, path, and ultrarunners who had been there. Tereza Hrochová (Czech Republic) ran 2:26:38 and sure bought a spot on the Czech group for the 2024 Olympic Marathon. She was eighth on the 2023 World Mountain Working Championships Up and Down race in Austria. Additional again, Emily Schmitz (U.S.) ran 2:49. She was seventh on the 2023 Path World Championships 80k. And over on the boys’s aspect, we didn’t see Petro Mamu (Eritrea) on the paths final yr, however he ran a pair of highway marathons in 2:10:22 and a pair of:09:57, and he ran a brand new private finest 2:08:01 at age 38 in Seville. [In 2017, Mamu failed two doping tests, after both the World Mountain Running Championships and the World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships. He was given a nine-month ban starting in September of 2017 by the IAAF for testing positive for fenoterol.] Full outcomes.
Problem within the Clouds by Extremely-Path de Mexico – Xicotepec, Mexico
Karina Carsolio (The Netherlands) and Max King (U.S.) received the 48-kilometer race in 5:38 and 4:36, respectively. Full outcomes.
Coastal Problem – Costa Rica
It was the race’s twentieth yr and the longer of the 2 course choices totaled 242k (150 miles) over six days. Katie Younger (U.Ok.) and Cody Lind (U.S.) totaled 35:30 and 25:57 to complete the journey first. Full outcomes.
Shotover Moonlight Mountain Marathon – Queenstown, New Zealand
On New Zealand’s South Island, Charmaine Salvage (Australia) and Daniel Trevena (New Zealand) received the marathon distance run in 7:00 and 5:10. Full outcomes.
9 Dragons – Hong Kong
Flora Wing Yee Ching (Canada) and Wai Hung Wong (Hong Kong) received the 50-mile race in 14:18 and 10:55, and 50k winners Naomi Fung (Hong Kong) and John Ray Onifa (Philippines) completed in 8:21 and 6:05. Full outcomes.
Susitna 100 Mile – Massive Lake, Alaska
Meg Inokuma had a transparent win in 25:48, nearly 5 hours forward of anybody else. Bryce Williams received the boys’s race in 32:24. Monitoring.
Perfume Lake 50k – Bellingham, Washington
Maria Dalzot simply missed the course report in 5:48 and males’s winner Brendan Scott did set a brand new course finest in 4:53. Full outcomes.
Hagg Lake Mud Runs – Forest Grove, Oregon
The 50k champs, together with all of the runners, reportedly skilled the namesake mud. Susan Oh and Jake Dennie got here by way of in 4:36 and three:46, respectively. Full outcomes.
FOURmidable 50k – Cool, California
Helen Mino Faukner and Reed Breuer had been victorious in 4:21 and three:56. Full outcomes.
Sylamore Path 50k – Allison, Arkansas
Frontrunners Sam Pruitt and Jake Anderson completed in 5:27 and 4:21. Full outcomes.
Cabin Fever 50k – New River Gorge Nationwide Park, West Virginia
The third-year race had 253 finishers, all led by Vivian Cami Bobbitt and Logan Kerby in 4:50 and 4:11. Full outcomes.
Vacation Lake 50k – Appomattox, Virginia
Elizabeth Chikotas scored a win and new course report in 4:00. That’s 13 minutes than the outdated finest. Chikotas ran 2:43 on the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials two weeks in the past. Jared Coccia received the boys’s race in 4:02. Full outcomes.
The Raven 24 Hour – Mt. Nice, South Carolina
Colleen Drahos and Pat Hasler are on the prime of the rankings with 130 and 133 miles, respectively. Full outcomes.
Forgotten Florida 100 Mile – Christmas, Florida
Regardless of wet climate and muddy trails, Jill Dennes set a brand new course report at 19:36 for the third yr run. And males’s winner Chris Miller did that too. His 15:26 was nearly three hours higher than the outdated report. Full outcomes.
Subsequent Weekend – Transgrancanaria – Gran Canaria, Spain
The occasion has a number of races working over a number of days, however the Basic distance takes off at 11:59 p.m. native time on Friday, February 23. The 126k (78 miles) island traverse packs in 6,804 meters (22,322 ft) of elevation acquire. The race is the yr’s third World Path Majors occasion too.
Girls
- Courtney Dauwalter (U.S.) – 1st 2023 Transgrancanaria
- Azara García (Spain) – 1st 2021 Transgrancanaria
- Ida-Sophie Hegemann (Germany) – third 2023 Istria by UTMB 100 Mile
- Aroa Sio (Spain) – 2nd 2023 Extremely-Path Cote d’Azur 122k
- Dominika Stelmach (Poland) – 2nd 2022 Black Canyon 100k
- Claudia Tremps (Spain) – third 2023 Transgrancanaria
- Ildikó Wermescher (Hungary, lives in Germany) – 1st 2022 Andorra by UTMB 105k
Courtney Dauwalter profitable the 2023 Transgrancanaria Basic 128k. Picture: Transgrancanaria/Jordi Saragossa
Males
- Zach Miller (U.S.) – 2nd 2023 UTMB
- Miguel Arénsio (Portugal) – 2nd 2023 Transgrancanaria
- Pau Capell (Spain) – fifth 2023 Transgrancanaria
- Miguel Heras (Spain) – 2nd 2023 Extremely Pirineu 100k
- Beñat Marmissolle (France) – 2nd 2023 Hardrock 100
- Andreas Reiterer (Italy) – 2nd 2023 Path World Championships 80k
- Seth Ruhling (U.S.) – sixth 2023 CCC
- Jia-Sheng Shen (China) – 4th 2023 Western States 100
- Andreu Simon (Spain) – 1st 2023 Transgrancanaria
- Aleksei Tolstenko (Russia) – 1st 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100 Mile
- Jim Walmsley (U.S.) – 1st 2023 UTMB
Andreu Simon main Abel Carretero in the course of the 2023 Transgrancanaria Basic 128k. Picture: Transgrancanaria/Jordi Saragossa
Name for Feedback
- Can Zach Miller make this an actual rivalry with Jim Walmsley subsequent week at Transgrancanaria? Is Courtney Dauwalter primed for an additional yr of domination? We’ll discover out quickly!
- Who else are you on that Transgrancanaria entrants record for an important run?
