Veteran ultrarunner Rob Krar nabbed second place on the Leadville Path Marathon in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, main a pack of 4 Canadians who cracked the highest 12 within the 42.2-km race. The 46-year-old Krar, who hails from Hamilton, Ont., crossed the end line in 3:42:23, incomes him a spot on the rostrum between Scott Spillman of Denver, who gained the marathon in 3:36:52, and Frank Pipp of Longmont, Colo., who positioned third with 3:45:02.
The paths of Leadville are acquainted terrain for Krar, who gained the Leadville Path 100—the previous mining city’s flagship 100-mile race—in 2014 (16:09:32) and 2018 (15:51:57). Krar, now based mostly in Flagstaff, Ariz., additionally gained the Western States 100-mile endurance run in 2014 and 2015.
His effort at Saturday’s marathon topped off a number of sturdy performances by Canadians on the Leadville course. Molly Hurford of Collingwood, Ont., ran 4:38:53 to complete eighth within the feminine class. (The Canadian Operating contributor positioned second within the girls’s 80K race ultimately 12 months’s Quebec Mega Path (11:51:56), and claimed high honours—within the girls’s class and general—ultimately 12 months’s Outlaw 100 Oklahoma ( 23:53:42). Topping the ladies’s podium at Leadville this 12 months have been Ellie Pell of Boulder (4:02:14), Emma Sjolund of Leadville (4:19:09) and Christina Bauer of Flagstaff (4:24:06).
Two different Canadians barely missed squeezing into the highest 10. Reid Burrows of Grand Bay-Westfield, N.B., winner of final 12 months’s 50K Sulphur Springs path race, ran 3:54:03 to complete eleventh within the males’s class. Madeline Wighardt of Ancaster, Ont., who positioned second within the girls’s class ultimately 12 months’s Quebec Mega Path 110K, completed twelfth within the girls’s class with 4:46:13.
Lonnie Clark of Colorado Springs, Colo. (5:36:51) and Mads Holm Hansen of Denmark (7:18:24) have been the finishers within the marathon’s non-binary class.
Taking high spots within the Leadville Heavy Half—a course of simply over 25 km—have been Jeff Cuno of Albuquerque, N.M. (2:02:20), Devin Vennard of Leadville (2:03:30) and Ethan Goldman of Denver (2:20:10). The highest three girls have been Ali Kallner of Denver (2:13:53), Kylah Ricks of Colorado Springs (2:19:54) and Hannah Campbell of Lakewood, Colo. Jessi Friedman of Leadville was the finisher within the non-binary class (3:57:44).
Saturday’s races drew round 1,500 runners representing six nations and all 50 U.S. states. The marathon and Heavy Half occasions sometimes take runners as much as round 4,018 metres at Mosquito Cross, the very best steady cross in america. Regardless of organizers’ efforts to clear Mosquito Cross, as a result of Leadville’s colder spring that introduced snow and freezing temperatures, each programs have been altered to show round barely beneath the summit. Further mileage was added elsewhere to keep up the course distances.
