That was a giant weekend. This week’s race recap goes to the highest of Pikes Peak and down below to Australia.
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Mammoth Path Fest – Mammoth Lakes, California
Dragon’s Again Ascent
Friday’s three-mile race went up 2,400 ft and paid $3,400 to its prime finishers. Uphill all-star Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) led the boys to the highest in 33:18, and he was principally alone. Few different Golden Path World Collection (GTWS) runners selected to tackle the double. Jonas Soldini (Switzerland) and Chad Corridor had been minutes again in 35:01 and 36:12 for second and third. Corridor received the race in each 2023 and 2022.
Ladies’s winner Abby Lock topped out in 43:53, and Summer season Allen and Pema Franchi Antelme (France) had been second and third in 46:04 and 49:08.
Mammoth 50k
Saturday’s 50-kilometer race stretched 32 miles and with 7,000 ft of elevation acquire for an $8,000 purse. Chad Corridor got here again from the day prior vertical race to win the lengthy course in 4:12. He received the race in its inaugural yr in 2022 too. Chris Myers and Cole Watson had been on the rostrum subsequent in 4:22 and 4:28.
Ladies’s winner Sylvie Abel led Lauren Puretz and Dayna Stimson by means of the course in 5:23. The chasers completed in 5:26 and 5:30, respectively.
Mammoth 26k
The race was the yr’s eighth GTWS contest. It occurred on Sunday and went 16 miles and with 3,900 ft of climbing for a $21,000 prize purse.
Males
Outsprinted on the end line final week on the Headlands 27k, Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) went to the entrance early. Twenty minutes into the race Obogo Kiriago had a few-second hole on Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland), Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco), Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya), and everybody else.
When the true climbing was executed although, it was Kipngeno that hit the highest first. World-class downhiller Elazzaoui was proper there too although. Bonnet was now third and surprisingly 41 seconds again of Kipngeno. Kiriago, like Elazzaoui a robust downhiller, was fourth and 76 seconds behind the chief.
Ninety minutes into the race on one of many steeper downhills, Elazzaoui did precisely as anticipated and blew previous Kipngeno. Leaning into his downhill power, Elazzaoui was rapidly out of attain. After which surprisingly, and virtually as rapidly, Kipngeno was again within the lead. Neither might shake the opposite and so they traded the lead backwards and forwards the remainder of the best way.
For the second week in a row the boys’s race got here all the way down to a dash, and for the second week in a row it was Elazzaoui in first. It wasn’t with out controversy although. Kipngeno went for a cross meters from the end and Elazzaoui moved simply to his proper sufficient to interrupt Kipngeno’s kind. They had been a single second aside with Elazzaoui first in 1:49:35 and Kipngeno second in 1:49:36. It was Elazzaoui’s third GTWS win of the yr.
Elhousine Elazzaoui wins the dash end with Patrick Kipngeno, to take victory on the 2024 Mammoth Path Fest 26k. Photograph: Sarah Attar
Ombogo Kiriago edged out Bonnet for third. He completed in 1:52:30 and Bonnet was fourth in 1:52:59.
The highest 10 males had been:
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- Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 1:49:35
- Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 1:49:36
- Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) – 1:52:30
- Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) – 1:52:59
- Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 1:59:31
- Marco Filosi (Italy) – 2:00:00
- Garrett Corcoran (U.S.) – 2:00:27
- Cesare Maestri (Italy) – 2:00:47
- Jonas Soldini (Switzerland) – 2:01:57
- Rémi Leroux (Canada) – 2:02:46
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Ladies
Early on the race seemed like final week’s contest. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) led forward of Mădălina Florea (Romania) and Lauren Gregory (U.S.). These three had been first, second, and third on the Headlands 27k race final week. Together with Gregory, seven Individuals had been inside the highest 10 on the Twin Lakes timing level roughly half-hour into the race. Final week’s fast-finisher Miao Yao (China) was again in twelfth.
Muthoni Njeru pushed her lead additional to the course’s excessive level, summiting over two minutes quicker than second-place Florea. Rachel Drake (U.S.), making her GTWS debut for the yr, was third to the highest.
Nothing modified on the entrance the remainder of the best way, Muthoni Njeru received in 2:11:56 and Florea was second in 2:14:51. It was Muthoni Njeru’s third GTWS win of the yr.
Joyce Muthoni Njeru, the 2024 Mammoth Path Fest 26k girls’s winner. Photograph: Sarah Attar
It was a giant battle although for third. Anna Gibson (U.S.) and Drake traded the lead a number of instances over the downhill second half as every discovered their benefit. Gibson received the battle with a third-place 2:20:03 and Drake was fourth in 2:20:40.
The U.S. would place six girls inside the highest 10.
The highest 10 girls had been:
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- Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 2:11:56
- Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 2:14:51
- Anna Gibson (U.S.) – 2:20:03
- Rachel Drake (U.S.) – 2:20:40
- Tabor Hemming (U.S.) – 2:21:47
- Lauren Gregory (U.S.) – 2:21:57
- Oria Liaci (Switzerland) – 2:22:31
- Allie Ostrander (U.S.) – 2:23:15
- Emkay Sullivan (U.S.) – 2:23:39
- Miao Yao (China) – 2:24:39
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(In 2023, Ostrander was suspended for 4 months after testing constructive for canrenone, a metabolite of spironolactone, after it was decided that she mistakenly took the drug with out first acquiring a World Anti-Doping Company Therapeutic Use Exemption.)
Pikes Peak Ascent – Manitou Springs, Colorado
Saturday’s uphill race was a 13.3-mile climb to the highest of Pikes Peak. That’s a 6,300-foot begin, 7,815 ft of elevation acquire, and a end close to the 14,115-foot summit. A $10,500 prize purse awarded $2,000 to the winners with cash paid 5 deep.
Males
The race wasn’t a part of the Golden Path World Collection this yr in fact, however the males’s race was nonetheless a little bit of a Colorado mountain operating showdown. Joseph Grey and Seth Demoor have starred on Pikes Peak for the final decade. Demoor is a two-time Pikes Peak Marathon winner, however Grey was a four-time Pikes Peak Ascent winner. Regardless of Grey’s higher document, Demoor’s 2:06 climb as a part of the 2021 Marathon was minutes quicker than any of Grey’s Ascent instances in recent times.
Grey seems to have dominated this yr’s match-up although. He jumped to the lead immediately and it was by no means that shut. Grey received the race to the highest in 2:11. It was his fifth win on Pikes Peak.
Joseph Grey wins the 2024 Pikes Peak Ascent. Photograph: Scott Rokis
Demoor overtook Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau for second place late. Demoor completed in 2:14 and Beaudoin-Rousseau was third in 2:15, 50 seconds behind Demoor.
Cam Smith got here again from final weekend’s double at The Rut in Montana to complete fourth in 2:19 and Joseph Demoor was fifth in 2:22.
The highest 5 was:
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- Joseph Grey – 2:11:13
- Seth Demoor – 2:14:58
- Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau – 2:15:48
- Cam Smith – 2:19:44
- Joseph Demoor – 2:22:45
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Ladies
The ladies’s race ran as a little bit of a rematch from final yr too. In 2023 throughout the race’s aggressive Golden Path World Collection yr, Hali Hafeman was eleventh and Allie McLaughlin was twelfth. The 2 had been once more collectively this yr, however it was McLaughlin that received the match up, and the race with 2:45 on the prime. It was McLaughlin’s third Pikes Peak Ascent win. Hafeman closed arduous up excessive to complete simply 34 seconds again, having made up over a minute on McLaughlin within the final two miles.
Allie McLaughlin takes the win on the 2024 Pikes Peak Ascent. Photograph: Scott Rokis
Kristin Johnson was third in 3:01, and Anna Mae-Flynn and Kasey Sutherlin took the opposite prize cash spots in 3:07 and three:08, respectively.
The highest 5 was:
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- Allie McLaughlin – 2:45:36
- Hali Hafeman – 2:46:10
- Kristin Johnson – 3:01:40
- Anna Mae-Flynn – 3:07:06
- Kasey Sutherlin – 3:08:17
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Pikes Peak Marathon – Manitou Springs, Colorado
Sunday’s up-and-down, out-and-back marathon was reduce brief resulting from snow on the upper elements of the mountain. The race rotated at Barr Camp midway up and as a substitute went for simply 15 miles.
The prize purse matched that of the day prior Ascent, $10,500 in complete with $2,000 to the winners.
Males
The course was completely different than the final two years, however the end result was the identical. Jonathan Aziz received for the third yr in a row. Aziz completed in 1:46, and obtained out entrance from a giant chase group. The shorter distance actually made the end instances nearer this yr and fewer than a minute separated the second by means of second- by means of fifth-place finishers. Tate Knight was second in 1:49 and 24 seconds behind him, Kevin Vermeulen (France) was third additionally in 1:49.
The total prime 5 was:
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- Jonathan Aziz – 1:46:10
- Tate Knight – 1:49:25
- Kevin Vermeulen (France) – 1:49:49
- Anthony Williams – 1:49:59
- Darren Thomas – 1:50:05
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Ladies
Second in 2023, Sarah Guhl stepped as much as the highest spot this yr. The ladies’s race mirrored the boys’s with a frontrunner out entrance and a tightly packed group behind. Sarah Biehl was on the entrance of the chasers in 2:13 after which lower than a minute cut up third-, fourth-, and fifth-place. Shannon Dowlearn was the perfect of that group in 2:15 for third.
The highest 5 had been:
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- Sarah Guhl – 2:10:55
- Sarah Biehl – 2:13:22
- Shannon Dowlearn – 2:15:13
- Flannery Davis-Love – 2:15:53
- Marcela Vašínová (Czech Republic) – 2:16:08
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Grindstone by UTMB – Swoope, Virginia
The Seventeenth-year occasion hosted 1,000 runners throughout its 4 race distances. The programs found excessive ridges, deep valleys, and the perfect of the Shenandoah Valley between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains.
100 Mile
The 100-mile race was uniquely a Western States 100, Hardrock 100, and UTMB qualifier. The race was almost 105 miles and with over 20,000 ft of climbing.
The beginning of the 2024 Grindstone by UTMB 100 Mile. Photograph: Jacob Banta & Brent Tyrell/Grindstone Path Operating Competition by UTMB
It wasn’t till 90 miles into the race that the leaderboard confirmed Gavin Prior on the prime. He received in 21:23. After a drop on the Canyons by UTMB 100 Mile in April, this seems to be Prior’s first 100-mile end. And he ran down a legend to get the win. Anton Krupicka was second in 21:52. This was his first 100-mile end since a third-place run on the 2021 Leadville 100 Mile and solely his second 100-mile end in over a decade. Alex Proctor was third in 22:17.
Katti Jackson topped Jill Dennes within the girls’s race. Each ran below 24 hours with 23:31 and 23:54 end instances. Tatiana Rypinski was third in 24:51.
50k
Dan Curts received his 50k debut in 3:57. Every week earlier, Curts received and broke a David Sinclair course document at New Hampshire’s Kismet Cliff Run. Alex Forte and Brian Atkinson trailed the winner in 4:02 and 4:12, respectively.
Sarah Bergeron-Larouche (Canada) separated from Ashley Brasovan within the second half to win the ladies’s race in 4:31. Brasovan closed in 4:34 and Karin Strickland was third in 5:31.
Julian Alps Path Run by UTMB – Kranjska Gora, Slovenia
Hayden Hawks (U.S.) received the CCC 101k three weeks in the past, and Francesco Puppi (Italy) was second on the OCC 55k that very same week. Each might’ve known as it a yr after these stellar runs, however as a substitute they got here again to race the 34-mile Sky Path distance and its 8,000 ft of climbing.
The 2 had been collectively for the early miles, however then it was all Puppi. He completed first in 4:31. Hawks was second in 4:52, and Dimitri Chapelle (France) was third in 5:08.
The ladies’s race ran nearer on the prime with barely three minutes separating the rostrum. Eliska Sieglova (Czech Republic) received the race in 6:23, and second- and third-place Anne Barber (Germany) and Federica Zuccollo (Italy) each completed in 6:26 and solely three seconds aside.
Maga SkyMarathon – Zorzone, Italy
The race was the yr’s 14th Skyrunner World Collection contest and it went for 39k and three,000 meters of acquire by means of the Orobie Alps. That’s 24 miles and 9,800 ft within the Italian Alps within the northern a part of the nation.
There have been 4 steep climbs heading in the right direction to the summit of 4 peaks and, as per standard for Skyrunner races, there have been extraordinarily technical sections aided by fastened ropes.
The highest three males and the highest three girls all broke the previous course document. Italian males swept the primary 5 end spots. Native runner Nadir Maguet was first in 4:21, and Cristian Minoggio and Gianluca Ghiano had been subsequent in 4:24 and 4:35.
Nadir Maguet, the 2024 Maga Skymarathon males’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Collection
Hillary Gerardi (U.S., lives in France) beat again a problem from Ioana Madalina Amariei (Romania) on the entrance of the ladies’s race. Gerardi received in 5:31 and Amariei was second in 5:36. Oihana Kortazar (Spain) was third in 5:45.
Hillary Gerardi, the 2024 Maga Skymarathon girls’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Collection
Further Races and Runs
La Skyrhune – Ascain, France
The technical 21k mountain run gained 1,700 meters, or 5,577 ft, on a course spiked by three large climbs. Race winners earned €500. Sylvain Cachard (France) championed the boys’s run in 1:56. Robin Juillaguet (France) and Daniel Alonso (Spain) had been second and third in 1:59 and a couple of:00, 50 seconds aside. Sara Alonso (Spain) took the ladies’s crown in 2:13. Cecile Jarousseau (France) and Malen Osa (Spain) ran 2:16 and a couple of:20 for second and third. Full outcomes.
Surf Coast Century – Anglesea, Australia
The race’s thirteenth version occurred with 1,500 runners throughout the 100k, 50k, and relay races. The races occur partly alongside the Nice Ocean Street. Nigel Hill and Holly Ranson received the 100k in 8:49 and 9:03, and Ranson’s time broke an eight-year-old course document. Matthew Whitaker and Miah Noble received the 50k in 3:28 and three:53, respectively. Full outcomes.
The beginning of the 2024 Surf Coast Century. Photograph: Speedy Ascent/Aaron Collins and Photos4Sale
Three Sisters Skyline 50k – Sisters, Oregon
The Alpine Operating race is highlighted by unbelievable views of the Three Sisters and different excessive Cascade peaks. The race hits a excessive level close to mile 10 after which runs downhill the remainder of the best way. Mario Mendoza received the boys’s race and simply missed the course document in 3:47, and Carmen Bango was first lady in 4:28. Full outcomes.
Mountain Lakes 100 Mile – Olallie Lake, Oregon
Sixty miles of the 100-mile race are on the Pacific Crest Path, and the route takes in dozens of mountain lakes. Will Guzick and Julija Soryte received in 17:15 and 19:45, respectively. Full outcomes.
Flagstaff to Grand Canyon Stagecoach Line 100 – Flagstaff, Arizona
Edwin Miller and Andrea White led the point-to-point 100 miler in 19:53 and 21:17. Full outcomes.
IMTUF 100 Mile – McCall, Idaho
He didn’t match his 2018 course document time, however David Ayala received for the third time with 22:17 on the clock. Madison Liechty received the ladies’s race in 24:22. It was the race’s second-fastest end ever. Full outcomes.
Barkley Fall Traditional 50k – Wartburg, Tennessee
Tim Landy (U.Ok.) ran his manner into the 2025 Barkley Marathons with a first-place 9:06, and impediment course racing professional Chris Rugloski repeated as girls’s winner in 9:32. Full outcomes.
Georgia Jewel – Dalton, Georgia
James Ebert and Debbie Boyett went the quickest throughout the 100 miler in 22:03 and 26:54. Full outcomes.
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