After a two-hour delay as a consequence of snow accumulation on the course, the Black Canyon 100K close to Phoenix, Ariz. received underway on Saturday, with a stacked discipline on each the boys’s and girls’s sides. 2020 winner Hayden Hawks confirmed the ultra-trail world he’s again on high on the first main North American occasion of 2024, crossing the end line in a speedy seven hours, half-hour and 18 seconds, a brand new course file by two and a half minutes.
Black Canyon 100K is the primary North American occasion within the new World Path Main Sequence, which kicked off with the Hong Kong Extremely on Jan. 21. All three podium finishers on each the boys’s and girls’s sides acquired Golden Tickets into Western States 100, to be held in Olympic Valley, Calif. on June 29. The race traverses a point-to-point route on the Black Canyon Path, starting within the city of Mayer and descending towards Phoenix, with 1,581 metres of elevation acquire on a internet downhill course.
Jupiter Carera Casas of Mexico took second in 7:39:56 and Chris Myers was third, in 7:43:02.
This was Hawks’s first race after an injury-plagued yr in 2023 culminating in knee surgical procedure. “It was a really special occasion for me. Getting back from knee surgical procedure and having the ability to do what I like to do on the degree I do know I’m able to was unbelievable,” Hawks informed Canadian Working post-race. “I had a fantastic day and am very joyful in regards to the efficiency. That being mentioned, this was the semi-final for me and the championship is on the finish of June at Western States.”
Fernie, B.C.’s Ethan Peters was the highest Canadian, ending twenty eighth total (twenty seventh male) in 8:52:15, and Reid Burrows of New Brunswick was forty third total (thirty sixth male), in 9:31:38.
After quite a few modifications of place, the equally shut girls’s race was gained by Rachel Drake in 8:47:23; she was twenty fourth total and solely two minutes over Keely Henninger‘s 2023 course file of 8:45:30. Oregon-based Drake gained the 60K race at Black Canyon in 2021, and has a powerful path operating resume, most just lately taking fourth on the Kodiak Ultramarathons by UTMB in October. Becca Windell was second in 8:52:46, with Lauren Puretz rounding out the rostrum in 9:06:58.
“It was so exhausting!” Drake informed Canadian Working after her 100K triumph.”Becca Windell and I ran exhausting collectively for about 20 miles and it was unbelievable. I used to be operating scared the final 12 miles and am so grateful to her for making me get probably the most out of myself.”
Vancouver’s Kat Drew was the highest Canadian lady, ending fifth in 9:15:20, with fellow Canadian Geneviève Asselin-Demers shut behind in sixth place (9:17:38), and Canmore, Alta.’s Arden Younger in eleventh (9:46:37). “I liked my expertise within the desert,” mentioned Asselin-Demers. (Anne-Marie Madden of Vancouver, who was third in 2022 and who gained the masters division on the California Worldwide Marathon in December, was thought of a possible podium finisher, however didn’t begin as a consequence of harm.)
Males’s 100K high 10
- Hayden Hawks – 7:30:18
- Jupiter Carera Casas (Mexico) – 7:39:56
- Chris Myers – 7:43:02
- Craig Hunt – 7:46:39
- Stephen Kersh – 7:47:33
- Tracen Knopp – 7:48:04
- Eric LiPuma – 7:48:48
- Gabriel Kline – 7:51:28
- Nate Jewkes – 8:03:55
- Hans Troyer – 8:03:58
Girls’s 100K high 10
- Rachel Drake – 8:47:23
- Becca Windell – 8:52:46
- Lauren Puretz – 9:06:58
- Jenna Bensko – 9:11:18
- Kathryn Drew – 9:15:20
- Geneviève Asselin-Demers (Canada) – 9:17:38
- Tara Dower – 9:19:25
- Anna McKenna (Australia) – 9:28:24
- Riley Brady – 9:33:53
- Marci Klimek – 9:41:02
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Black Canyon 60K
The sphere of elite athletes within the 60K race was nearly as deep as within the 100K. Quick-course path operating star Eli Hemming led from begin to end, setting a brand new course file of 4:06:39 in solely the second extremely of his profession. Brad Miles took second in 4:35:14, and Brett Hornig was third in 4:41:22.
Elena Horton led a extremely aggressive girls’s discipline, profitable (and putting seventh total) in 4:57:19, solely two minutes shy of Mimmi Kotka’s 2023 course file (Georgia Porter and 2023 100K champ Keely Henninger ran intently to complete in 5:00:06 and 5:04:37, respectively).
B.C.’s Jenny Quilty was the highest Canadian and fourth lady in 5:05:39. Quilty ran in second place for a lot of the race: “I went out manner too exhausting,” she mentioned post-race. “My quads left me about 10 minutes in the past.”
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