The thickening haze of wildfire smoke didn’t appear to faze runners on the Squamish 50 over the weekend, as one in all Canada’s hottest path races produced some spectacular instances—together with a brand new course file within the males’s 50 mile occasion. Right here’s a rundown of the highest outcomes:
The 50 mile
Squamish’s personal Karl Augsten ran Saturday’s 50-mile race in 7:14:40, shaved greater than quarter-hour off the lads’s course file set by Dakota Jones in 2016. Additionally breaking the previous course file and now boasting the second-fastest males’s time within the course’s 11-year historical past was Chris Balestrini of London, Ont., who ran 7:22:28.
For Balestrini, who summed up the occasion as a “powerful time out towards an important discipline,” this was not solely his first race on the course, however the first at this distance: “I hadn’t actually tried to run greater than 50-ish Ok in my life, so there have been many unknowns moving into,” the Canadian 50K file holder informed Canadian Operating after Saturday’s race. “I really feel lucky to have the ability to have raced nicely in Squamish. It’s a constructing block for my future in path operating, and I’ve nothing however positives to remove from it.”
Taking third place was Brandon Miller of Calgary , who ran 7:34:30.
Emilie Mann led the ladies’s discipline in 8:38:22, the third-fastest time by a lady within the course’s historical past. She informed Canadian Operating that, much like Balestrini, she normally runs within the 50-km vary and isn’t used to the longer distance. She famous she felt just a little involved when she hit the 55-km mark, however stated as soon as she handed 60 km mark and realized it was 20 km to the end line, she knew she might proceed her robust effort the remainder of the way in which. She added that it was an emotional expertise to have the ability to run whereas Kelowna, her hometown, was grappling with devastating wildfires that has pressured mass evacuations and destroyed properties and companies.
Serving to to make the ladies’s podium a clear sweep for B.C. had been Imogene Scott of Vancouver, who ran 8:54:33, and Mercedes Vince of Saanichton, who completed in 9:09:56.
The 50K
B.C. runners additionally dominated the lads’s podium in Sunday’s 50K. Brandon Gardiner of North Vancouver positioned first in 4:45:12, adopted by Shaun Stephen-Whale (4:50:40) of Roberts Creek, and Marc Fawcett-Atkinson (4:59:06) of Vancouver.
The highest three ladies had been former road-runner Robyn Mildren in her first extremely ( 5:30:28), Alexandra Harriss of Squamish (5:37:31) and Caitlin Schindel of Saskatoon (5:38:43).
The 50/50
Individuals within the 50/50 run the 50-miler adopted by the 50K on back-to-back days. Returning to the lads’s podium was John Dean of Squamish, the winner of each final 12 months’s 50 miler and 50/50, who completed this 12 months’s 50-miler and 50K in a mixed 14:04:17. He was adopted by fellow Squamish runner Oskar Michalak (14:55:22), and Alexandre Campbell (15:35:49) of North Vancouver.
Jennie Labrie of girls’s topped the ladies’s 50/50 in 16:39:13, adopted by Christine Mosley (16:48:02) of Issaquah, Wash., and Teresa Kaiser (17:16:36,) of Park Metropolis, Utah.
With reporting from Keeley Milne
