Danièle Riendeau punctuated an astounding weekend for Canadian girls at Puerto Vallarta via UTMB via successful Sunday’s 20K in 2:03:30 and completing eleventh total.
Riendeau’s victory noticed Canadian girls shut out the second one yr of UTMB’s race weekend in Mexico via shooting first position in 3 of the weekend’s 5 occasions. On Saturday, Montreal’s Geneviève Asselin-Demers crowned the ladies’s podium within the 100K, whilst Saskatoon’s Caitlin Schindel took first within the 50K.
Just like the ultra-trail races, the 20K challenged runners with difficult ascents, extremely technical trails and sizzling warmth, even if temperatures weren’t as persistently top as they have been on Saturday. “I feel that labored in my favour, evidently,” Riendeau mentioned following her win.
She added the route’s various terrain used to be each a problem and a deal with for runners willing to compete on a scenic route.
“It used to be hilly, proper up the primary six kilometres uphill on a winding highway into the jungle—some trails, up and down cobble stones, bridges, after which simply gorgeous surroundings all of the long ago, with a large number of downhill on the finish.”
Riendeau mentioned she didn’t input the 20K anticipating to win. “I didn’t know I used to be within the lead, however I used to be operating by myself for a large number of it.”
Having triumphed in Mexico, Riendeau mentioned she’d like to concentrate on operating a 50K. She mentioned she’d definitely imagine tackling the space in Puerto Vallarta subsequent yr, calling it a “nice tournament” on a well-marked route with “nice selection and lovely surroundings” and remarkable volunteers.
Becoming a member of Riendeau at the girls’s podium have been Mexican runners Diana Darinka Zárate Díaz (2:10:51) and Paola Segura (2:18:40). In the meantime, Mexico ruled the boys’s race with Jose Luis Castel Ceja breaking the tape in 1:43:42, adopted via Alan Carzolio (1:43:56) and Ricardo Mejia Hernandez (1:45:32).
In Sunday’s 33K race, Mexico’s Jeff Rosas crowned the boys’s podium in 3:38:54. Salvador Martínez, additionally from Mexico, took 2d in 3:40:55, and Colombia’s Jhoan Sebastian Rivera Alape positioned 3rd (4:03:39). Canadian Greg Cruickshank ran 4:40:28 to best the 40-44M class and position thirteenth total.
Mexicans swept the ladies’s 33K podium. Sabrina White ran 4:35:05 for the win and tenth position total, adopted via Mariela Silva (5:03:06) and Lorena de Luna Saucedo (5:37:40).