No relaxation for the weary. We’re in a giant stretch. This week that meant the Damaged Arrow Skyrace in California, the Madeira Skyrace in Portugal, the Mount Washington Highway Race in New Hampshire, and the Mozart 100k by UTMB in Austria, all amongst different highlights. It was enjoyable to see so many runners doubling again from huge efforts simply final weekend.
Damaged Arrow Skyrace Vertical Ok – Olympic Valley, California
The Vertical Ok opened the competitors on Friday morning, and virtually all of it was on snow. The race was barely shorter than in prior years, however nonetheless went up roughly 3,000 ft over three miles to complete on high of Washeshu Peak. The primary U.S. man and girl every earned a spot on the U.S. staff that may race on the thirty fourth Problem Stellina worldwide competitors in Italy, and the race was a part of the World Mountain Working Affiliation World Cup too.
Males
Andrea Rostan (Italy) broke away early and was out entrance for a lot of the race. He received in 39:51, over a minute higher than everybody else. He received $2,000 for the win. Rostan was 14th eventually week’s World Mountain Working Championships Uphill race.
Andrea Rostan wins the 2023 Damaged Arrow Skyrace VK. Picture: Peter Maksimow
The 2021 winner Darren Thomas edged out Henri Aymonod (Italy) for second, and earned a $1,500 runner-up prize. Thomas completed in 41:10 and Aymonod ran 41:29.
The boys’s full high 5 was:
1 – Andrea Rostan (Italy) – 39:51
2 – Darren Thomas – 41:10
3 – Henri Aymonod (Italy) – 41:29
4 – Zak Hanna (Eire) – 41:51
5 – Abraham Hernandez (Mexico) – 43:04
Ladies
A number of runners have been doubling again from final weekend’s World Mountain and Path Working Championships or the GoPro Mountain Video games, however Anna Gibson had an much more distinctive double. She was seventeenth within the 1,500-meter race on the NCAA Division I Monitor & Discipline Championships final weekend. That race wrapped up the 24-year-old’s collegiate profession for the College of Washington. And this weekend she received $2,000 with a 47:09 first-place end. As with the boys’s winner, she too was virtually a minute higher than everybody else.
Anna Gibson takes the win on the 2023 Damaged Arrow Skyrace VK. Picture: Peter Maksimow
Second-place Jade Belzberg avenged a drop eventually weekend’s Path World Championships 80k. She completed right here in 48:00. Third-place Sara Willhoit (U.Ok.) topped out in 48:25.
The ladies’s full high 5 was:
1 – Anna Gibson – 47:09
2 – Jade Belzberg – 48:00
3 – Sara Willhoit (U.Ok.) – 48:25
4 – Anne Dube – 51:48
5 – Anna Mae Flynn – 53:13
Damaged Arrow Skyrace 46k – Olympic Valley, California
The roughly 28-mile race was on Saturday throughout two loops that totaled 9,100 ft of elevation acquire.
Males
Simply eighth final yr however second again in 2019, Michelino Sunseri gained his first Damaged Arrow win throughout a number of tries. His 3:58 end ranks because the occasion’s quickest, however displays this yr’s snow-impacted course. Jeff Mogavero was proper behind in second at 4:00, and Nick Handel smacked the end bell at 4:04 for third.
The complete high 5 was:
1 – Michelino Sunseri – 3:58
2 – Jeff Mogavero – 4:00
3 – Nick Handel – 4:04
4 – Cole Campbell – 4:13
5 – Grant Barnette – 4:16
Ladies
As with males’s winner Sunseri, Helen Mino Faukner had an earlier second-place end at Damaged Arrow too. Again in 2021 she ran 5:18 right here. However that was two years in the past and Mino Faukner’s a rising star. She received this yr’s race in 4:50. Final month she received huge on the 81k Valhöll Argentina by UTMB race.
Behind the race winner, Lindsay McDonald and Kristina Mascarenas pushed to 4:58 and 5:01 podium marks.
The ladies’s high 5 was:
1 – Helen Mino Faukner – 4:50
2 – Lindsay McDonald – 4:58
3 – Kristina Mascarenas – 5:01
4 – Fu-Zhao Xiang (China) – 5:06
5 – Emmiliese von Avis – 5:06
Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k – Olympic Valley, California
Excessive winds on uncovered ridges and on the ladder part compelled a course reroute and a delayed begin. The brand new roughly 13-mile course gained 4,800 ft of elevation. The race was a part of the U.S.-Canada Golden Path Nationwide Sequence.
Males
Eli Hemming outclassed a powerful subject over the race’s second loop for a two-and-a-half minute win. Hemming completed in 1:34, and it was his second Golden Path Nationwide Sequence win of the yr. A full sequence win is value €1,500.
Eli Hemming on the best way to profitable the 2023 Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k. Picture: Andy Wacker
Runner-up Chad Corridor completed in 1:37. He received the downhill Phoenix Marathon in 2:12 in February 2023. And Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau was a shock third in 1:38. Beaudoin-Rousseau ran at Stanford and three weeks in the past was nineteenth on the NCAA Division I West Regional in 28:47 for the ten,000-meter monitor race.
This one would possibly’ve been the deepest race of the group, so we’ll listing out the highest 10 right here.
1 – Eli Hemming – 1:34
2 – Chad Corridor – 1:37
3 – Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau – 1:38
4 – Talon Hull – 1:40
5 – Henri Aymonod (Italy) – 1:40
6 – Garrett Corcoran – 1:41
7 – Ali Papillon – 1:41
8 – Abraham Hernandez (Mexico) – 1:41
9 – Patrick Parsel – 1:41
10 – Ondrej Fejfar (Czech Republic) – 1:42
Ladies
Allie McLaughlin got here again from a double at worlds final week, and she or he ran away with this one. McLaughlin had a six-minute cushion on everybody else. She completed in 1:51.
Allie McLaughlin on her technique to profitable the 2023 Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k. Picture: Maksimow
Vertical Ok race winner Anna Gibson was second in 1:57 within the longer race, and Tabor Hemming was third in 1:58.
The ladies’s high ten was:
1 – Allie McLaughlin – 1:51
2 – Anna Gibson – 1:57
3 – Tabor Hemming – 1:58
4 – Janelle Lincks – 2:01
5 – Sara Willhoit (U.Ok.) – 2:03
6 – Annie Dube – 2:07
7 – Sarah Guhl – 2:07
8 – Laurel Moyer – 2:09
9 – Rachel Mow – 2:10
10 – Andie Cornish – 2:11
Mount Washington Highway Race – Gorham, New Hampshire
“There’s just one hill,” the race boasts. That one hill although goes up 4,650 ft over 7.6 miles on the Mount Washington Auto Highway. The course reaches a 22% most grade at its worst. This yr’s run completed in rain and below darkish skies.
Males
Every week after ending fifth on the World Mountain Working Championships Uphill race, Joseph Grey was in New England. He completed in 60:24 and it was his seventh win on this course, and third in a row. Grey earned a $1,000 first-place prize.
Second-place Sam Chelanga completed in 61:54. Chelanga ran 27:38 for 10,000 meters in March 2023. Tyler Andrews was third in 62:06.
The complete high 5 was:
1 – Joseph Grey – 60:24
2 – Sam Chelanga – 61:54
3 – Tyler Andrews – 62:06
4 – Eric Blake – 63:00
5 – Jeffrey Allen – 65:34
Ladies
The 2022 runner-up Amber Ferreira was first to the highest this yr. She completed in 75:16. Marybeth Chelanga matched her husband’s place, second, in 76:03, and third-place Meghan Davis completed in 77:46.
The ladies’s high 5 was:
1 – Amber Ferreira – 75:16
2 – Marybeth Chelanga – 76:03
3 – Meghan Davis – 77:46
4 – Kasie Enman – 78:07
5 – Tammy Hsieh – 79:07
Madeira Skyrace – Madeira, Portugal
The yr’s fourth Skyrunner World Sequence race sought out the island’s most technical terrain on a brand-new 45k course that went from sea to summit. The course gained 3,600 meters, virtually all within the first 15k, and it was each shorter and with much less elevation acquire than earlier races right here. The race summited Pico Ruivo. At 1,862 meters (6,109 ft) it’s the island’s excessive level.
Males
Antonio Martínez (Spain) received his second Skyrunner World Sequence race of the yr, firmly putting him on the high of the early season charts. Martinez began slowly and was simply ninth and 4 minutes off the lead after the primary climb. He simply erased that hole and created one among his personal although, ending in 5:05 for a six-minute cushion on everybody else.
Antonio Martínez, the 2023 Madeira Skyrace males’s winner. Picture: Brian Sharp Creates
Zaid Ait Malek (Spain), twenty fifth in final weekend’s Path World Championships 40k, was second in 5:11 and Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) was third in 5:12.
Ladies
Ladies’s winner Emma Prepare dinner-Clarke (Canada), a prolific impediment course racer, led for the whole thing of the race. She completed in 6:12.
Emma Prepare dinner-Clarke on her technique to profitable the 2023 Madeira Skyrace. Picture: Brian Sharp Creates
Spanish runners Oihana Azkorbebetia and Ainara Yurrebaso have been second and third in 6:25 and 6:29, respectively.
Leadville Marathon and Heavy Half Marathon – Leadville, Colorado
Marathon
Snow saved the marathon from reaching the 13,185-foot Mosquito Cross excessive level. A reroute skipped that final 1.5 miles up excessive, however added distance elsewhere saved the race on the official 26.2-mile marathon distance. Nonetheless, the race scene regarded fairly wintry with snow beginning an hour into the race and the solar possibly lastly breaking via hours later.
Scott Spillman obtained to the entrance of the boys’s race and was victorious in 3:36. Rob Krar — so good to see his title racing once more — was second in 3:42, and Frank Pipp was third in 3:45.
Ladies’s winner Ellie Pell put 17 minutes on the remainder of the sphere with a 4:02 end time. Emma Sjolund and Christina Bauer have been second and third in 4:19 and 4:24, respectively.
Heavy Half Marathon
The half marathon stretched for 15.7 miles.
Simply 70 seconds separated entrance males Jeff Cuno and race native Devin Vennard, ending in 2:02 and a couple of:03. Ethan Goldman was third in 2:20.
Ali Kallner bested Kylah Ricks on the entrance of the ladies’s race. The pair ran 2:13 and a couple of:19, and Hannah Campbell was third in 2:24.
Mozart 100k by UTMB – Salzburg, Austria
It was the occasion’s largest yr but with 3,000 runners from 75 nations throughout its a number of race distances.
The “Mozart 100” race went for 105k with 5,400 meters (17,716 ft) of elevation acquire. Luke Grenfell-Shaw (U.Ok.) was over an hour higher than everybody else with a ten:24 end, and Eve Moore (U.Ok.) received the ladies’s race in 12:54.
Kris Jones (U.Ok.) was simply in Innsbruck final week on the Path World Championships 40k. Simply two hours east, he received the “Mozart Marathon” 39k in 2:47 this weekend. Katarina Lovrantova (Slovakia) was first in an in depth girls’s race at 3:37.
Further Races and Runs
Zugspitz Ultratrail – Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Until Fischer (Germany) and Ruth Croft (New Zealand) received the 88k race at Germany’s largest path operating occasion, round Germany’s largest mountain. The pair completed in 11:10 and 11:09, respectively. Alexander Gepp (Austria) and Ironman triathlon legend Chrissie Wellington (U.Ok.) received the 69k in 7:38 and eight:25. And within the 45k, Florian Reichert (Germany) and Jasmin Nunige (Switzerland) obtained to the road first in 4:01 and 4:36. Full outcomes.
Lifeless Cow Gully Yard Masters – Brisbane, Australia
There doesn’t look like reside monitoring, however there’s an excellent one happening down below. 4 runners are on lap 57 on the time of this writing, and in order that’s 237.5 miles over 57 hours. The group consists of Harvey Lewis, Sam Harvey, Phil Gore, and Aaron Younger.
Montane Backbone Race – Pennine Approach, United Kingdom
The sixth summer season version of the race took on the well-known 268-mile path, and shorter sections of that very same path too. All race distances are run independent with racers carrying their very own meals and provides on an unmarked course. The 46-mile dash topped Rupert Allison and Hannah Rickman as race winners in 6:59 and eight:41, and each instances have been new course data. Jon Defend and Mel Sykes received the 108-mile Challenger South race in 27:53 and 32:22. The Challenger North 160-mile race and the complete 268-mile Backbone race each are ongoing on the time of this writing. Full outcomes.
Early on within the 2023 Summer time Backbone Race. Picture: The Backbone Race
Niagara Extremely – Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada
Aidan Rutherford and Julie Hamulecki received the 50k race in 3:21 and three:24. Full outcomes.
Damaged/Vista 50k – Bend, Oregon
Mario Mendoza set the inaugural yr report at 4:52, and Stephanie Gundel did the identical for the ladies in 5:21. Full outcomes.
Bighorn 100 Mile – Dayton, Wyoming
Jeff Browning, age 51, closed exhausting the final 15 miles to maneuver to the entrance and win in 19:47. It’s, we predict, Browning’s twenty ninth 100-mile win. Browning was third right here in 2010 in 20:34, and received right here as early as 2005 in 21:54. That’s some unimaginable longevity. David Ayala and Seth Swanson have been second and third in 19:51 and 20:21. Amanda Sullivan was simply over 26 hours as girls’s winner and Heidi Warfel was slightly below 27 hours as the ladies’s runner up. The 2 completed in 26:01 and 26:59. Third-place Sonja Tinucci completed in 27:43. Sam Foster and Annie Hughes received the one-way 52-mile race in 8:35 and eight:27 with Hughes setting a brand new course report. Full outcomes.
Ring the Springs – Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Aravaipa Working occasion had three extremely distances. Matt Halverson and Rachel Hawkins received the 100 miler in 21:06 and 26:16. Jason Wheat and Lucie Hanes led the 100k in 11:43 and 12:19. And Kedric Osborne and Miranda Williamson took the 50k in 5:14 and 6:52, respectively. Full outcomes.
Six Days within the Dome – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The occasion once more occurred on an indoor 443-meter monitor and with 24-, 48-, and six-day races. However first, Chikara Omine cut up 5:04 for 50 miles and 6:31 for 100k, and each have been new American data for the boys’s 40-45 age group. Chris Roberts and Jenny Hoffman totaled 150.48 and 145.21 miles over 24 hours, and 48-hour winners Bob Becker and Lisa Devona totaled 167.54 and 205.28 miles. At age 78, Becker’s efficiency is a 48-hour world report for the boys’s 75-79 age group. The six-day race simply began on Sunday, June 18, and is thus ongoing. Full outcomes.
The Final Annual Coronary heart of the South Highway Race – West Memphis, Arkansas
Some 82 runners gathered on June 15 to run 300 to 350 miles a method again to their automobiles, self-supported. As of this writing, Bob Hearn is 276 miles into the journey, and Kimberly Durst is the main girl at 197 miles. Monitoring.
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What’d the dads on the market do over Father’s Day weekend? Race, eat ice cream, or each? Personally I really like birthday cake-flavored ice cream, however it’s been a tough one to seek out thus far this summer season.
