On Saturday at Tunnel Hill 100 in Vienna, Sick., Toronto’s Julie Hamulecki crushed each the Canadian girls’s 100-mile and 12-hour data, ending third general in 13:32:07 (the earlier report was 14:45:51, set in 2022 by Woodstock, Ont.’s Amanda Nelson). Hamulecki dominated the ladies’s 100-mile race, with the second-place finisher, Michigan’s Erica Aikman, greater than three hours behind her in 17:01:30, and Mallory Servais of Berkley, Calif. taking third in 17:47:15.
The Tunnel Hill 100 is a 50-mile loop course that runners full twice for the total 100-mile race. In response to the race web site, the character of the course has sparked loads of debate, particularly after Camille Herron’s world record-breaking efficiency within the girls’s 100-mile (12:42:40). The course is classed as each a highway and a path; it’s sanctioned by USATF and IAU licensed and ratified as a highway or open course. As a result of it’s unpaved, it’s additionally categorized as a path by the American Path Runners Affiliation and the Worldwide Path Runners Affiliation.
Julie Hamulecki wins Ontario’s Sulphur Springs 50-mile outright, breaks course report
In Could, Hamuleckiwas the primary finisher general within the 50-mile race at Sulphur Springs in Hamilton’s Dundas Valley, finishing the space in 7:08:00–virtually 40 minutes forward of the primary male finisher, and capturing the course report. Hamulecki can also be the Canadian 100K report holder on the highway.
Hamulecki wasn’t the one lady crushing data at Tunnel Hill on Saturday. Courtney Olsen of Bellingham, Wash. set a brand new girls’s 50-mile world report, operating 5:31:56 to beat Anne Trason‘s long-standing report of 5:40:18, set in 1991. In June, Olsen took third on the iconic Comrades Marathon in South Africa; and she is going to compete within the IAU 100K World Championships in December.
Within the males’s 100-mile race, Iowa’s John Donovan took first in 12:36:26, adopted by Phil Younger (additionally of Iowa) in 12:48:45; Ohio’s Adam Gloyeske took third (and fourth general) in 14:25:46.
For full outcomes of the 2024 Tunnel Hill 100 and 50-mile races, head right here.
