There have been costumes in Arizona, championships in South Korea, and an Olympic bronze medalist racing trails in Ohio. Our Halloween bucket is already overflowing.
You can even try our higher race protection from earlier this previous week:
Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships – Ulju, South Korea
The inaugural championships included Quick Path and Lengthy Path races within the Yeongnam Alps, with runners from 19 totally different nations. The biennial occasion subsequent occurs in 2026.
Quick Path
Operating on a rocky 41-kilometer course with 2,783 meters of elevation acquire throughout two main climbs, Takako Takamura (Japan) led all of it to earn particular person gold in 4:36. Priya Rai (Nepal) was second in 4:41 and Honoka Akiyama (Japan) was third in 4:53.
Takako Takamura, the 2024 Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships Quick Path ladies’s winner. Picture: Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships
Males’s winner John Ray Onifa (Philippines) gained his lead on the technical descent from the course excessive level. Onifa then held off a late race problem to win in 3:47. Koken Ogasawara (Japan) was second in 3:49 and Blake Turner (Australia) gained a dash to complete third in 4:00.
John Ray Onifa, the 2024 Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships Quick Path males’s winner. Picture: Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships
Lengthy Path
A day later runners tackled a 76k course with 4,870 meters of elevation acquire. That’s 47 miles and almost 16,000 toes of climbing.
Fu-Zhao Xiang (China) overtook Ha Thi Hau (Vietnam) with 30k to go and cruised to victory in 8:26. Hau was second in 8:36, and Yuri Yoshizumi (Japan) was third in 8:57.
Fu-Zhao Xiang 2024 Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships Lengthy Path ladies’s winner. Picture: Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships
Males’s winner Min Qi (China) grabbed the lead 50k into the race and barely held off fast-closing Kai Hiroki (Japan) on the finish. Qi ran 7:37 and Hiroki 7:40. Mikey Dimuantes (Australia) was third in 7:44.
Min Qi, the 2024 Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships Lengthy Path males’s winner. Picture: Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships
Javelina 100 Mile – Fountain Hills, Arizona
The Halloween-themed 100-mile run went on a five-loop course by means of the McDowell Mountain Regional Park. The race was once more a Western States 100 Golden Ticket contest with the highest two men and women every incomes automated entry to the June 2025 Western States 100.
Girls
Barely an hour separated the primary 5 ladies, and it was a day of traditionally quick finishes. Riley Brady gained the race in 14:19, and it was the race’s second-fastest end ever. Brady ran 14:45 in 2022 and 15:29 in 2023 too, when ending second and third. Brady identifies as non-binary, however competes within the ladies’s race.
Hannah Allgood ran 14:38 for second and, like Brady, additionally accepted the Western States 100 Golden Ticket. Allgood’s time ranks fifth-best ever at Javelina.
Third-place Lauren Puretz completed in 15:00, simply two minutes in entrance of Erin Clark. Puretz and Clark’s occasions are the race’s ninth-and Tenth-best ever.
The highest 5 was:
1 – Riley Brady – 14:19
2 – Hannah Allgood – 14:38
3 – Lauren Puretz – 15:00
4 – Erin Clark – 15:02
5 – Corinne Shalvoy – 15:24
Males
David Roche moved to 2-0 for the 100-mile distance. Barely two months after resetting the longstanding Leadville 100 Mile course file, Roche gained once more and simply missed the Javelina course file. His 12:45 profitable time was solely two minutes off Jon Rea‘s 2023 file.
Second-place Jeff Mogavero ran 12:54, the race’s third-fastest end ever. Mogavero, as with Roche, accepted his Golden Ticket entry to the Western States 100. The 2023 fourth-placer Dan Inexperienced moved up one spot. He was third in 12:58, and that was the race’s sixth-best run ever.
The boys’s prime 5 was:
1 – David Roche – 12:45
2 – Jeff Mogavero – 12:54
3 – Dan Inexperienced – 12:58
4 – Rajpaul Pannu – 13:16
5 – Blake Slattengren – 14:03
2 Peaks SkyRace – Ulju County, South Korea
It was the yr’s seventeenth Skyrunner World Sequence race and Anastasia Rubtsova (Russia) has now gained 5 of these races. On the identical venue because the Asia Pacific Path Operating Championships, Rubtsova mastered the 26k path and its 2,080 meters of acquire in 3:24. Irina Rachinskaia (Russia) and Veronika Leng (Slovakia) in 3:42 and three:46, respectively.
Gianluca Ghiano (Italy) scored the boys’s win in 2:53, simply over a minute higher than second-place Ruy Ueda (Japan). Lorenzo Beltrami (Italy) was third in 3:05.
Sobrescobio Skyrace – Rioseco, Spain
A day after the two Peaks SkyRace in South Korea, there was one other Skyrunner World Sequence race in Spain. This one went 32k with 2,100 meters of climbing alongside Redes Nationwide Park. Already technical, rain and powerful winds added to the course problem.
Lucille Germain (France) dominated the ladies’s race in 3:25. Spanish runners Oihana Kortazar and Júlia Font have been second and third in 3:37 and three:38, respectively.
Lucille Germain, the 2024 Sobrescobio Skyrace ladies’s winner. Picture: Valentin Orange
Males’s winner Luca Del Pero (Italy) set a brand new course file and outdueled Manuel Merillas (Spain) late. Del Pero ran 2:49 and Merillas was second in 2:50, 37 seconds later than Del Pero. Antonio Martínez (Spain) was third in 2:56.
Luca Del Pero, the 2024 Sobrescobio Skyrace males’s winner. Picture: Valentin Orange
Extra Races and Runs
Snowman Race – Bumthang, Bhutan
The 115-mile (186k), five-day stage race concluded at present native time, after beginning on Thursday, October 24. Sixteen contributors traveled on the well-known Snowman Trek within the Bhutanese Himalayas, reaching as excessive as over 17,900 toes (5,400 meters) to convey consciousness to local weather change there and worldwide. Germany’s Rosanna Buchauer gained the ladies’s race in 31:58:02 and Bhutan’s Sangay Wangchuk gained the boys’s race in 28:31:14. Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Germany’s Rosanna Buchauer profitable the 2024 Snowman Race. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Sangay Wangchuk, of Bhutan, 2024 Snowman Race champion. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Javelina 100k – Fountain Hills, Arizona
The little sister to the Javelina 100 Mile noticed ladies take three of the highest 4 total end spots. Anne Flower gained in 8:23 forward of Jane Maus’s 8:32, and Jordan Brett was the primary man in 8:39. Full outcomes.
Canyonlands Extremely – Moab, Utah
The Mad Moose Occasions race marked its second yr with a string of recent distances. Thirty-eight runners completed the 100k, led by Charlotte Cadow and Jonathan Kuplack in 11:49 and eight:58. Kristen Little and Grant Roper gained the 50 miler in 9:44 and seven:36. Full outcomes.
Door County Fall 50 Mile – Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Elizabeth Cinquegrani and Jordan Janusiak rolled the point-to-point course in 7:04 and 6:04. Full outcomes.
Chippewa Creek Half Marathon – Brecksville, Ohio
Sarah Jane Kerwin gained the ladies’s race in 1:31 and 2016 Olympic 800-meter bronze medalist Clayton Murphy led the boys in 1:28. Full outcomes.
Mammoth Cave 50k – Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The fourth annual race is out and again on the Bike & Hike Path contained in the nationwide park. Belle Thomas and Anthony Groft have been victorious in 4:51 and three:44. Full outcomes.
No Enterprise 100 Mile – Jamestown, Tennessee
The loop course crosses into and out of Kentucky whereas traversing the Massive South Fork Nationwide River & Recreation Space. Amy Holpuch conquered the course and the ladies’s crown in 23:53 and David Sullivan led the boys in 22:09. Full outcomes.
Marine Corps Marathon 50k – Arlington, Virginia
Anna Staats and Calum Neff gained the highway extremely in 3:44 and a pair of:56. Full outcomes.
Triple Lakes Path Race – Greensboro, North Carolina
Avery Mathias and Devon Softic gained the 40 miler inside Bur-Mil Park in 6:43 and 6:37. Solely six minute separated the primary 4 total 40-mile finishers. Full outcomes.
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