The primary-year lululemon FURTHER occasion, the USATF 50k Street Nationwide Championships, and the SkySnow World Championships had been the weekend’s prime attracts.
We’re speaking about all of it, so settle in for an additional Monday recap.
Lululemon FURTHER – La Quinta, California
They’re nonetheless working, and, dang, Camille Herron has been nice thus far. The six-day occasion began on March 6 and runs by means of March 12, overlapping with Worldwide Girls’s Day, which was on March 8. The ten-woman discipline is working an roughly 2.5-mile principally grime street path.
Camille Herron’s setting data quick. I can barely sustain, however let’s run down the numbers. I don’t consider these intermediate marks are earmarked within the monitoring, however fortunately there’s a passionate following of those multi-day efforts on-line and so hat tip to their record-keeping, and you may be a part of them in this Fb group.
Initially, let’s begin with how the data Herron’s setting are managed. The 48-hour mark is acknowledged as a world file by the governing physique Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners (IAU) and, within the U.S., an American file for this time-based occasion is managed by the governing physique USA Observe and Subject (USATF) and divided into monitor and street surfaces.
The six-day mark is taken into account by the IAU as a world greatest efficiency.
All the opposite data are tracked by the nonprofit World Group of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners (GOMU).
- Herron cut up 247.73 miles at 48 hours. That was a brand new USATF American 48-hour street file. Her IAU world file and USATF American monitor file nonetheless stand at 270.50 miles from her 2023 effort on the time-based occasion.
- Subsequent got here the 300-mile fixed-time file. Herron hit that GOMU mark in 59 hours, 54 minutes, and 58 seconds.
- The GOMU 500-kilometer mark was reached in 62 hours, 50 minutes, and 45 seconds.
- After which Herron toppled Stine Rex’s GOMU 72-hour file from 2023 alongside the way in which. Herron hit 341 miles and Rex’s former greatest was 314 miles.
- For the GOMU 600k mark, that one was in 81 hours, 23 minutes, and 38 seconds.
- In 88 hours, 34 minutes, and 26 seconds, she reset the GOMU 400-mile file.
- Her GOMU four-day (96 hours) cut up was 429.8 miles.
- Onto the GOMU 700k file, which she reset in 98 hours, 33 minutes, and 59 seconds.
The six-day marks are nonetheless on the board and embrace Sandra Barwick’s 549-mile ladies’s world file, and Dipali Cunningham’s 514-mile ladies’s American file. On the boys’s facet, we’re nonetheless looking ahead to the likelihood that Herron might surpass Yiannis Kouros’s 644-mile world file and Joe Fejes’s 606-mile American file.
The occasion is scheduled to complete on Tuesday, March 12, at roughly 10:05 a.m. U.S. PDT.
Camille Herron breaking data on the 2024 lululemon FURTHER occasion. Pictures courtesy of lululemon.
SkySnow World Championships – Tarvisio, Italy
Did the Skyrunner World Sequence and the World Snowshoe Championships meet up final weekend? Looks as if one thing occurred. Each that sequence and that occasion had been final weekend, and now we’ve acquired the the offshoot SkySnow World Championships. In actuality, this occasion is managed by the Worldwide Skyrunning Federation.
The SkySnow self-discipline is run at altitude and on snow with micro crampons. This was the second 12 months for the world championships occasion. Some 22 completely different nations had runners participate.
Vertical
The Friday evening Vertical race climbed 974 meters over 3.6k at the hours of darkness.
Increase me up. Tadei Pivk (Italy) led the boys to the highest in 36:04 and Diego Díaz (Spain) was second in 36:54. Luca Del Pero (Italy) acquired on the rostrum in 37:36 for third.
Girls’s champ Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) charged up in 42:28. Madlen Kappler (Germany) and Corinna Ghirardi (Italy) had been second and third in 42:44 and 43:39, respectively.
Tadei Pivk getting after it on his technique to profitable the 2024 SkySnow World Championships Vertical race. Photograph: ISF/@DamianoBenedettoPhoto
Traditional
A day later a lot of the sector got here again to race on a 15k course with 515 meters of elevation acquire. Martin Nilsson (Sweden) outdueled Luca Del Pero, and Timotej Becan (Slovenia) was third. The frontrunners completed in 69:59, 71:56, and 72:26. Del Pero gained each the Vertical and Traditional races on the inaugural championships in 2022.
The ladies’s Vertical podium stayed intact. Alexandersson gained, Kappler was second, and Ghirardi was third for the second day in a row. The trio got here by means of in 82:18, 82:44, and 84:52.
Tove Alexandersson within the groove on her technique to profitable the vertical race on the 2024 SkySnow World Championships. Photograph: ISF/@DamianoBenedettoPhoto
Heckscher State Park 50k – East Islip, New York
The ten-lap race was once more the USATF 50k Street Nationwide Championships however males’s winner Brandon Talisesky seems to be to have come out of the open discipline and never the USATF group. Talisesky completed in 3:22, and Wealthy Energy and Aaron Heath adopted in 3:36 and three:39. Energy, age 60, and Heath should’ve been the primary USATF finishers. Regardless of the end order was, Wealthy Energy completely gained the title sport. Homer Simpson got here near that in 1999 when he modified his title to Max Energy.
Helen Huang grew to become a nationwide champ within the ladies’s race at age 54. She completed in 4:18 and was approach out entrance. Second-place Indira Schwarting adopted in 4:43, and from the open race Seada Abagaro was the third lady to complete in 4:46.
Helen Huang profitable the 2024 USATF 50k Street Nationwide Championships. Photograph: Elite Feats
Extra Races and Runs
Path Du Ventoux – Bédoin, France
The 46k race is a longtime early season spotlight in France, and this 12 months runners met a number of recent snow. Simply 29 seconds separated males’s chief Thomas Cardin and Thibaut Garrivier, each ending in in 3:30. Loïc Rolland was third in 3:37. The ladies weren’t as shut as Adeline Martin (earlier than often called Adeline Roche) acquired away in 3:57. Marine Quintard and Sabine Ehrstrom adopted in 4:11 and 4:17. Full outcomes.
Chanoko Path Runs 50k – Rocklin, California
Race winners Jeffrey Klahn and Debra Mangalin completed in 4:30 and 4:59. Full outcomes.
Marin Extremely Problem – Sausalito, California
The occasion is the flagship of Inside Path’s group of races and it was the its eleventh 12 months. Kevin Stewart and Natalie Chirgwin had been the quickest over 50 miles in 7:05 and eight:45. Full outcomes.
And the 50k winners Patrick Rabuzzi and Lindsay Allison completed in 3:51 and 4:16, respectively. The primary 4 ladies had been separated by solely 5 minutes, and the primary 5 all completed below 4:30. Full outcomes.
Patrick Rabuzzi (yellow prime) on his technique to profitable the 2024 Marin Extremely Problem 50k. Photograph: @Estherramosphoto
Mesquite Canyon – Waddell, Arizona
The races had been on the White Tank Mountain Regional Park and it was an in depth within the males’s 50 miler. Nick Coury edged Jeff Browning for the win, 7:47 to 7:51. The highest ladies had been shut too. Zuzana Trnovcova completed in 8:46 to Cindy Shephard’s 8:59. Jordan Bramblett and Ailsa MacDonald gained the 50k in 4:18 and 4:27. Trnocova set a brand new course file and MacDonald was simply seconds away from one too. Full outcomes.
Antelope Canyon Ultras – Web page, Arizona
Drew Francis and Ashley Paulson gained the 100 miler in 20:23 and 23:23. Paulson’s on a sizzling streak. It was her third 100 miler since December 28, 2023. This one was loads slower than the primary two, however she’s gained all of them.
[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).]
The 50-mile winners Ryan Behunin and Amy Wearne got here by means of in 8:08 and 9:36, and Hudson Billock and Megan Longinotti gained the 55k in 5:24 and 5:46. Full outcomes.
The Hunt Path Race 50k – Cody, Wyoming
It was the race’s sixth 12 months and Loren Davis and Indiana Peters had been topped winners in 4:55 and 6:28. Full outcomes.
Run By way of Time Marathon – Salida, Colorado
Taylor Stack rallied previous Jeshurun Small for the boys’s win in 3:00. Small chased 4 minutes later, and Ryan Smith was third in 3:19. Imogen Ainsworth outpaced the ladies’s discipline towards a 3:56 profitable time. Alison Rudy and Rebecca Hodgetts had been second and third in 4:11 and 4:20. Full outcomes.
Land Between the Lakes – Grand Rivers, Kentucky
The races had been run on an 11.3-mile loop contained in the Land Between the Lakes Nationwide Recreation Space. Kyle Hummel and Brooke Gibbons led the 50 miler in 6:44 and eight:27. Jason Teitloff and Rachel Schack gained the 60k in 4:55 and 5:36. Full outcomes.
Tremendous Bull Path Championship 50k – Wooster, Ohio
The race gave away $1,300 in prize cash. Run on a 7.75-mile loop, every lap totaled about 1,000 toes of elevation acquire. That’s fairly good for Ohio. Jeremy Pope and Becky Nussbaum gained the 50k in 4:31 and 5:35. Full outcomes.
Stumpjump 50k – Chattanooga, Tennessee
The longtime race round Sign Mountain had Brandon Sullivan and Rachel Vedder in first at 5:33 and 6:32. Full outcomes.
The 2024 Stump Leap 50k ladies’s podium (left-to-right): 1. Rachel Vedder, 2.Emily Rollins, 3. Caitlin Duggan. Photograph courtesy of race.
Bel Monte – Waynesboro, Virginia
The 50 miler and 50k each ran on out-and-back programs principally within the George Washington Nationwide Forest. Danny Mathieson and Isabelle Danforth had been out entrance within the 50 miler at 9:20 and 10:17, and Jesse Spangler and Concord Fisher topped the 50k discipline in 5:37 and 5:45. Full outcomes.
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