Greater than 2,500 runners, together with a deep elite box, are gearing up for an exhilarating weekend at Canyons Staying power Runs by way of UTMB in Auburn, Calif. Racers within the 100K tournament will traverse over portions of the Western States 100 (WSER) direction in what could also be the general Golden Price ticket race of the spring, with the highest two finishers within the males’s and girls’s classes incomes computerized access into the 2024 version of WSER, to be hung on June 29. Right here’s what you want to grasp to song in and who (and the way) to practice.
Steep climbs and massive stakes
The 100K 2024 Canyons direction is a brand new course (after heavy snow fall in 2023 and fires in 2022 brought about injury to the former direction) and will probably be run within the opposite course (the race alternates instructions yearly, very similar to Hardrock 100). The direction has runners hiking 3,962 metres over the 100K distance, however is a internet downhill (very similar to WSER).
Canyons hosts a 25K, 50K and 100-miler in conjunction with the 100K marquee tournament and could also be the UTMB Global Sequence Americas Main. The highest 10 finishers for women and men in all occasions obtain computerized access into the UTMB Global Sequence Finals race (100-mile UTMB, 100K CCC, or 50K OCC) in August in Chamonix, France. All race finishers will earn double issues, or “operating stones,” heading into the 2025 UTMB lottery. With best age groupers additionally incomes access, there’s a grand general of 210 computerized entries to be captured over this weekend’s occasions.
Girls’s 100K race
American runner Katie Schide, who lives and trains in France, is the race favorite after taking 2nd at WSER in 2023, and following that with a win on the Diagonale des Fous 100-miler. (Schide gained UTMB in 2022.) Whilst her best 10 end in 2023 has already earned her a place in WSER this yr, she’ll nonetheless be gunning for that podium. Schide will probably be lining up towards Riley Brady, who took 2nd on the 2022 Javelina Jundred 100-miler. Fellow American Addie Bracy (5th at 2023 Canyons 100K) joins them, in conjunction with Canada’s Arden Younger, who took 2nd on the San Tan Scramble 50K in Arizona in January, and used to be eleventh within the 50K race at Black Canyon Ultras in February.
Males’s 100K race
The 2022 winner of WSER (in his 100-mile debut), Adam Peterman, is coming round again to racing after coping with a pelvic rigidity fracture all over a lot of 2023, and can see some fierce pageant in Sweden’s Petter Engdahl, who gained CCC (100K) by way of UTMB in 2022 and Eiger Extremely-Path by way of UTMB in 2023. U.S. runners Matt Daniels (fourth at WSER in 2019 and 9th, in a difficult race at Canyons 100K in 2023) and Drew Holmen (5th at CCC in 2023) may also be best contenders.
You’ll be able to take a look at the Canyons Staying power Runs by way of UTMB 100K livestream, beginning on Saturday, April 27, 8:00 a.m. ET, by way of clicking right here.