Massive mountains world wide characteristic this week. There have been beautiful races at Mont Blanc in France, the Eiger in Switzerland, and Colorado’s Sawatch Vary, amongst different excessive spots.
Comply with alongside because the outcomes rundown skips across the globe.
La Montee Du Nid D’Aigle – St. Gervais, France
The World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup is on a heater. It was their third race in as many weeks and fifth race of the 12 months. This race, translated as The Ascent to the Eagle’s Nest, was meant to run as much as the mountaineering begin of a Mont Blanc climb. Nevertheless, work to increase the Mont Blanc Tramway stored this 12 months’s race from that historic end.
The race went 20 kilometers with 1,850 meters of elevation acquire, or 12.4 miles and 6,070 ft.
Ladies
The ladies’s podium was a repeat of final week’s Montemuro Vertical Run. Scout Adkin (U.Ok.) received once more, and Gloria Chebet (Kenya) and Philaries Kisang (Kenya) have been once more second and third. Adkin’s superior climbing was a 2:08 end. Chebet ran up in 2:12 and Kisang in 2:14.
The ladies’s podium on the 2024 La Montee Du Nid D’Aigle (left-to-right): 2. Gloria Chebet, 1. Scout Adkin, 3. Philaries Kisang. Photograph: WMRA/Elisa Gheza
Males
Kenyan runners swept the boys’s podium. Richard Omaya Atuya outpaced Josphat Kiprotich and Michael Selelo Saoli on the uphill course. The three have been nearly a minute aside, with 1:46, 1:47, and 1:48 end occasions.
After profitable final 12 months’s Sierre-Zinal, Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) hasn’t raced like that since. He was fifth right here in 1:52.
Richard Omaya Atuya profitable the 2024 La Montee Du Nid D’Aigle. Photograph: WMRA/Elisa Gheza
The subsequent WMRA World Cup race is Giir di Mont on July 28 in Italy — simply subsequent weekend!
Speedgoat Mountain Races by UTMB – Snowbird Resort, Utah
The 28k race, 20 miles with 6,561 ft of climbing, went on Friday, and the extra well-known 50k adopted on Saturday with 11,318 ft of elevation acquire.
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Simply over a minute was all that separated the entrance two ladies. Robyn Lesh edged out Sarah Carter for the win, with the pair working 3:34 and three:35, respectively. Third-place Jaycie Thomsen was a methods again in 3:54.
Second ultimately week’s U.S. Mountain Operating Championships, Hawk Name was victorious in 3:13. The Friday race date labored for Name. He doubled again the following day on Saturday and received the Spartan Utah Beast impediment course race and $2,500. Second- and third-place Cole Besser and Blaise Miller completed in 3:19 and three:22.
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iRunFar earlier recapped the 50k race in larger depth.
Ladies
Jazmine Lowther (Canada) is on the highway again from a long-term damage. She took the ladies’s crown in 6:15. Lowther rocketed up the ranks in 2022 after profitable the Canyons by UTMB 100k, and this may’ve been her first extremely end for the reason that February 2023 Transgrancanaria 128k.
Mali Noyes and Kodi Kleven made it shut. Noyes was second in 6:22, and Kleven was third in 6:24. Each are multi-time Speedgoat 50k finishers, with Noyes having been second additionally final 12 months and Kleven shifting as much as a podium end this 12 months.
Jazmine Lowther, 2024 Speedgoat by UTMB 50k champion. Photograph: Nils Nilsen
Males
Put some respect on David Sinclair’s identify. He received the boys’s race in 4:57 and blew the doorways off the sphere. That’s manner up on Christian Allen’s 5:23 2023 profitable time and higher than Adam Peterman’s 5:04 2021 course report. Sinclair has some historical past right here, too. He received the 2022 race in 5:09, was second in 2021 in 5:18, and received in 2018 in 5:27. Earlier this 12 months, Sinclair was second on the Silver State 50k and received the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 46k in late June.
Sam Hendry (Canada) and Scott Patterson have been second and third in 5:24 and 5:32. Former course report holder Peterman continues to search out his manner again from damage. He was sixth in 5:46.
David Sinclair on his solution to profitable and setting a course report on the 2024 Speedgoat by UTMB 50k. Photograph: Nils Nilsen
Eiger Extremely Path – Grindelwald, Switzerland
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Eva Maria Sperger (Germany) bumped into bother late, and Hannah Allgood (U.S.) took the lead solely 4 kilometers from the end. Allgood received in 13:09. The course went for 63 miles and 21,981 ft of climbing. Sperger held on to second in 13:36, and Sandra Sevillano (Spain) was third in 14:45.
Solely the primary three males completed below 12 hours and have been fairly unfold out. Andreas Reiterer (Italy) was all proper in first at 11:05. Ramon Manetsch and Aleix Toda, each of Switzerland, have been second and third in 11:17 and 11:52. It was at the very least Reiterer’s seventh extremely distance race of the 12 months.
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Individuals swept the highest spots of the 32-mile race with 10,170 ft of climbing. Sophia Laukli (U.S., dwelling in Norway) received an in depth one in opposition to Holly Web page (U.Ok.) and Kim Schreiber (Germany). The three leaders ran 5:51, 5:56, and 6:01, respectively.
The boys’s race was extra stretched out, and Jeshurun Small (U.S.) squeaked below the five-hour mark. Small, the boys’s winner, completed in 4:59:43. Paul Mathou (France) and Sindre Buraas (Norway) have been second and third in 5:07 and 5:12.
Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile – Salida, Colorado
The seventh-year race has some huge views of Colorado’s Sawatch Vary and packs in 23,500 ft of climbing.
Each races had frontrunner duels that went late.
Ladies
McKendree Hickory was the race’s daylong chief, however by mile 85, Laura Hansen had closed to inside 4 minutes of her. Hickory discovered one other gear to complete the race and stretched it out by the end. Hickory was victorious in 22:19. That’s manner up on Annie Hughes’s former 23:40 course report from 2022. It was solely Hickory’s second 100 miler after a sixth-place run ultimately 12 months’s Javelina 100 Mile.
Hansen held on to complete second in 23:06, additionally higher than the outdated course greatest, and Sarah Ostaszewski was third in 24:56.
McKendree Hickory after profitable the 2024 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile. Photograph: Mahting Putelis
Males
Chris Hammes adopted Alex Nichols by way of the center of the race and gained the final word lead close to mile 83. Hammes went on to win the race in 20:16 and Nichols was second in 21:06. Hammes’s time ranks second greatest on the race behind Jimmy Elam’s 2023 19:42 course report. His is perhaps a much less acquainted identify on the high of the ranks, however Hammes was the highest American at UTMB in 2018, and he’s subsequent registered for the September 2024 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile.
Elan Lieber ran 21:45 for third.
Chris Hammes, the 2024 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile champion. Photograph: Mahting Putelis
Further Races and Runs
XTERRA European Path Run Championship – Arinsal, Andorra
The occasion’s 36k and 24k races have been a part of the XTERRA Path Run World Sequence and paid out €5,200 in prize cash. Roser Español and Marti Lázaro received the difficult lengthy course contained in the Comapedrosa Pure Park in 6:42 and 4:45, and Laura Orgue and Fabián Venero Jiménez led the half marathon course in 4:14 and three:08. The races have been technical mountain runs with nothing flat. Full outcomes.
Cascade Crest 100 Mile – Easton, Washington
Katherina Laan received the ladies’s race in 23:34, and Jesse Lang grew to become a five-time winner within the males’s race. Lang earlier received in 2022, 2018, 2016, and 2015, with a run of 19:08 this 12 months. Remarkably, Lang was solely seven seconds off of his 2022 profitable time. Full outcomes.
Kati Laan on her solution to profitable the 2024 Cascade Crest 100 Mile. Photograph: Cascade Crest 100/Matt Hagen
Wy’east Trailfest 50k – Authorities Camp, Oregon
Sawyer Magnett ran 5:59 to beat the ladies’s subject and the six-hour mark by 10 seconds. Males’s winner Matt Seidel overtook late race chief Nick Hirdt on the ultimate downhill to win in 5:08. Hirdt was second in 5:10. Sunday’s 28k race was a part of the Golden Path Nationwide Sequence for the U.S. and Canada. Jade Belzberg led the ladies in 2:41, and Carolina Alcorta and Mariah Bredal got here subsequent in 2:44 and a pair of:45. Liam Meirow was a minute higher than Darren Thomas within the males’s race at 2:13 to Thomas’s 2:14, and Max King was third in 2:16. Full outcomes.
Tahoe Rim Path – Carson Metropolis, Nevada
Maria Man received her 100-mile debut in 24:06, and the 2021 males’s winner Grant Hotaling did it once more, however rather a lot sooner. Hotaling received this 12 months’s race in 18:31, and that was over two hours higher than what he ran to win in 2021. We’ve pulled these outcomes from social media, so we don’t know who the ladies’s 56-mile winner is but. Go away a remark to allow us to all know. The boys’s 56-mile winner was Ben Tedore in 9:07, and 50k greatest Jenny Jacox and Amaury Avatar ran 6:28 and 5:53. Full outcomes (when out there).
Grant Hotaling profitable 2024 Tahoe Rim Path 100 Mile. Photograph: George Ruiz
Energy of 4 Path Run 50k – Aspen, Colorado
The course hyperlinks up Aspen’s 4 ski areas. Race winners Anne Flower and Ethan Kirk did it in 6:09 and 5:26, respectively. Tabor Hemming and Jacob Dewey received the occasion’s 25k race in 2:13 and 1:52. Full outcomes.
Barr Path Mountain Race – Manitou Springs, Colorado
The 12.6-mile race runs midway up Pikes Peak after which again down. Ashley Brasovan received the ladies’s race in 1:54. For the boys, each Joseph Grey and Jonathan Aziz present end occasions of 1:33:10, however Grey is listed first and Aziz second. Was it a tie, or did Grey get the lean? Full outcomes.
Ouray 100 Mile – Ironton, Colorado
Protecting greater than 40,000 ft of elevation acquire over the course of 100 miles, v and Seth Orme took dwelling dominant wins on the Ouray 100 with occasions of 35:28:46 and 29:25:54, respectively, with Orme’s run a course report. The comparatively delicate climate 12 months for the race solely noticed intermittent rain and thunderstorms within the San Juan mountains, a far cry from the generally torrential climate that has shut down the highways within the space with mudslides throughout the occasion previously.
Different performances of be aware embrace Howard Worton ending in 50:37:37 after lacking final 12 months’s cut-off by over six hours however having no selection however to get himself again and Simone Austin ending in 49:59:57 after DNFing on the climb-heavy course the prior 4 years. Monitoring.
Elizabeth Butler having fun with her manner by way of the 2024 Ouray 100 Mile. Photograph: Eszter Horanyi
Vol State 500k – Dorena Touchdown, Missouri
The 314-mile point-to-point run began on July 11 and eventually completed on July 21, working from Missouri by way of Tennessee to Georgia. Shawna Wentlandt and Chris Varnadoe have been this 12 months’s first finishers in 4 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes (4:10:40), and three days, 11 hours, 29 minutes (3:11:29). Monitoring.
Jigger Johnson – Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
The Aravaipa Operating race is known as for a legendary trapper all through the American East, and the race programs traverse the White Mountains. The 108-mile contest totaled a difficult 32,000 ft of elevation acquire, and the race was received by Katja Fink and Keith Nadeau in 37:47 and 30:27. The 50 miler was nearly as daunting with 16,000 ft of climbing and 4 4,000-foot summits. Larisa Dannis MacFadden and Mead Binhammer led the 50 milers in 15:05 and 13:10. Full outcomes.
Vermont 100 Mile – West Windsor, Vermont
The race was pandemic canceled in 2020 and 2021 and climate canceled in 2023, and so this was the one the second time within the final 5 years for the Vermont 100.
Sarah Gage received the 100-mile ladies’s race in addition to the race total in 17:19:45, whereas Spencer Imbach led the boys’s subject in 17:24. As an occasion placed on by Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports activities, the 100-mile noticed Ben Simanski win the male visually impaired class in 24:50, whereas Jon Maaroiri received the male mobility impaired class in 29:09. (There have been no corresponding ladies’s finishers in these classes.) In the meantime, John Geesler completed his twenty ninth Vermont 100 Mile.
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