Route data fell at Spartathlon and The Endure, an international champion struggled at Extremely Pirineu, and international champions had been topped at XTERRA. We seemed far and wide and rounded it up right here.
The Endure 100 Mile – Logan, Utah
The purpose-to-point race celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary. The path climbed 22,816 from northern Utah to southern Idaho, completing at Endure Lake.
Ladies
Kathryn Graham received the ladies’s crown in 22:25. She was once 5th right here in 2020 in 26:14.
Contemporary Barkley Fall Vintage winner Kris Rugloski, who’s a drawback course-racer out of doors of path working, got here subsequent in 25:28, and Rebekah Rose was once an in depth 1/3 in 25:34.
Kathryn Graham on her method to profitable the 2023 Endure 100 Mile. Picture: Bethany Draper
Males
It’d been over a decade since any person had run underneath 18 hours at The Endure, and Christopher Kollar’s 17:50 path file had stood since 2012. That mark got here approach down this yr despite the fact that.
23-year-old Zack Garner hit a homerun in his 100-mile debut. Garner received in 17:11. He was once nearly two hours higher than everybody else on this yr’s race too. In the past, the BYU scholar was once 5th on the Speedgoat by means of UTMB 50k every of the final two years.
Not up to 4 mins separated the following two finishers. Jake Krong edged out Jesse Wealthy for moment in 19:09, and Wealthy was once 1/3 in 19:13.
Zack Garner, the 2023 The Endure 100 mile male winner. Picture: Bethany Draper
Great Côte d’Azur by means of UTMB – Great, France
The 115k (71 miles) race was once the yr’s 1/3 Golden Price tag race with the highest two finishers incomes an automated access to subsequent yr’s Western States 100.
Ladies
Eleanor Davis (U.Okay.) led everything of the ladies’s race. She completed first in 13:49, and was once nearly an hour higher than everybody else.
Marjo Liikanen (Finland) was once moment in 14:44 and Giulia Vinco (Italy) ran 15:28 for 1/3.
Eleanor Davis, the 2023 Great Côte d’Azur by means of UTMB 115k champion. Picture: Great Côte d’Azur by means of UTMB
Males
Jim Walmsley goes again to Western States. The 3-time winner and path file holder earned his long ago in with a first-place end in 11:21. Walmsley’s win right here comes lower than a month after additionally profitable UTMB.
Walmsley’s coaching mate Simon Gosselin (France) was once moment in 11:46 and permitted his Golden Price tag too.
The remainder of the highest 5 integrated Philipp Ausserhofer (Italy), Thibaut Baronian (France), and Sylvain Camus (France) in 11:55, 12:24, and 12:35.
Jim Walmsley on his method to profitable the 2023 Great Côte d’Azur by means of UTMB 115k. Picture: Great Côte d’Azur by means of UTMB
Spartathlon – Athens, Greece
The historical run is going 153 miles from Athens to Sparta. It was once the race’s fortieth yr.
Ladies
Camille Herron (U.S.) received and set a brand new path file in 22:35. She bettered Patrycja Bereznowska’s former 24:48 highest that had stood since 2017. Herron’s win avenged a drop eventually yr’s race, and she or he did it with some overdue race power. Herron was once simply 1/3 as overdue as mile 88, over midway into the race, and took the lead close to mile 106. She was once significantly sooner than her pageant during the last kind of 30 miles.
Flying Finns Noora Honkala (Finland) and Satu Lipiäinen (Finland) each ran sooner than the outdated path file too. Honkala was once moment in 23:22, making improvements to on her third-place end from 2021, and Lipiäinen was once 1/3 in 23:48.
What a yr for the highest girls at Spartathlon.
Camille Herron takes the win on the 2023 Spartathlon in a brand new path file. Picture: Sparta Images Membership/Flickr
Males
It was once a three-peat for Fotis Zisimopoulos (Greece), and he did it by means of beating a Yiannis Kouros (Greece) path file. Fotis ran 19:55, and that was once higher than Kouros’s 20:25 from long ago in 1984.
Simen Holvik (Norway), this yr’s Badwater winner, was once moment in 22:17, and Fernando Andrés Martínez (Spain) was once 1/3 in 23:32.
Fotis Zisimopoulos (heart) celebrates profitable the 2023 Spartathlon. Picture: Sparta Images Membership/Flickr
Extremely Pirineu – Bagà, Spain
100k
The 100k was once the development’s longest and premier race, and Marta Molist (Spain) was once victorious in 12:30. María Mercedes Pila (Spain) was once moment in 13:04, and Ragna Debats (Netherlands) was once subsequent in 13:12. 2022 race winner Núria Picas (Spain) was once 5th in 14:38.
Marta Molist takes the win on the 2023 Extremely Pirineu 100k. Picture: GRAVACS/ Sergi Colome
Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) led for the general 20k towards a ten:37 first-place end. 48-year-old Miguel Heras (Spain) was once moment in 10:53. Heras received the race a yr in the past when completing in 10:38. Rodrigo Monasor (Spain) was once 1/3 in 10:59. Making an attempt to step up in distance, two-time 40k Path International Champion and up to date OCC 55k winner Stian Angermund (Norway) dropped from the race at 88k with abdomen issues.
Miguel Arsénio, the 2023 Extremely Pirineu 100k males’s champion. Picture: GRAVACS/ Sergi Colome
42k
Julia Font (Spain) stormed the ladies’s marathon with a 4:17 profitable time. Ines Moreno (Spain) was once simply in entrance of Ruth Croft (New Zealand) for moment. The 2 completed in 4:24 and four:26, respectively, and the highest 9 girls all completed underneath 5 hours at the mountainous direction.
Males’s chief Robert Pkemboi (Kenya) was once a repeat winner. He completed in 3:28, 9 mins higher than a yr in the past. Racing for the 1/3 directly weekend, Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) was once moment in 3:32, and Victor Pellicer (Spain) was once 1/3 in 3:42.
XTERRA Path International Championships – Sugarloaf Mountain, Maine
The development left its longtime Hawai’ian path for one in Maine targeted across the Sugarloaf Mountain ski space, and break up its box between marathon and part marathon races. The longer race paid out $6,800 with $2,000 to the winners, and the part marathon awarded $3,200 with $1,000 to every winner.
Marathon
Caitlin Patterson saved the ladies’s win in state. The Maine runner edged out Vermont’s Joanna Fortier 4:02 to 4:06. Britta Clark took the general cash spot at 4:13.
Males’s marathon winner Mason Coppi clocked 3:17 for his payday, and Eric LiPuma was once moment in 3:22. 3rd-place Thomas Bartoli (France) was once reasonably some distance again at 3:51.
Part Marathon
Rachel Tomajczyk and Andy Wacker had been every tenth eventually weekend’s Mammoth 26k, and each moved to the highest spot right here. Tomajczyk received in 1:50, outpacing Hannah Rowe and Corey Dowe. Rowe and Dowe completed in 1:55 and 1:56.
Wacker’s 1:31 run was once 3 mins higher than second-place Dan Curts, and Phil Royer was once 1/3 in 1:41.
Further Races and Runs
Primiero Dolomiti Path – Primiero, Italy
The primary-year race was once a part of the International Mountain Working Affiliation’s International Cup. Susanna Saapunki (Finland) led a small elite girls’s box with a 51:00 end time. Lucy Wambui Murigi (Kenya) and Sara Willhoit (U.Okay.) had been moment and 1/3 in 52:33 and 52:42. Males’s champ Xavier Chevrier (Italy) was once out entrance in 43:22, and Remi Leroux (Canada) and Henri Aymonod (Italy) had been subsequent in 43:56 and 43:58. Complete effects.
EcoTrail Wicklow – Wicklow, Eire
It was once a really perfect soaker day in Eire. Runners had been soaking wet in rain. Deidre O’Gorman (Eire) and Yoann Caught (France) received the 80k in 8:36 and six:34, and Hillary Allen (USA) and Enda Cloake (Eire) led the 47k in 4:56 and three:58. Complete effects.
Hillary Allen takes the win within the 2023 EcoTrail Wicklow 47k. Picture: EcoTrail Wicklow/ Discuss with Wicklow
Enda Cloake, the 2023 EcoTrail Wicklow 47k males’s winner. Picture: EcoTrail Wicklow/ Discuss with Wicklow
Perpetua Coast 50k – Yachats, Oregon
Lindsay Eysenbach and Dylan Humberger received the race in 4:38 and four:07. Complete effects.
Dick Collins Firetrails – Castro Valley, California
The longtime 50-mile race celebrated winners Katherine Tune and Zachary Speno in 7:52 and seven:17. Complete effects.
Bogus 50/50 – Boise, Idaho
50-mile winners Jenna Maffey and Anthony Jacobs completed in 9:00 and seven:42, and Mindy Kaufman and Ben Holland had been tops within the 50k in 4:39 and four:48. Complete effects.
Crested Butte Extremely – Crested Butte, Colorado
The Mad Moose Occasions race noticed Lauren Bruns Buchheit and Justin Watkins completed the 50-mile race first in 10:46 and eight:29, and 55k frontrunners Chloe Dodge and Emilio Anaya Happel come via in 5:34 and four:37. Complete effects.
Yeti 100 Mile – Abingdon, Virginia
2021 winner Mary Cates received once more, this time in 17:06, and Barry Thomas was once out entrance in 15:12 for the lads’s lead. Complete effects.
Cat’s Tail Marathon – Shandaken, New York
The race’s 9th working went level to indicate during the Slide Mountain Barren region House of the Catskill Mountains. It was once wet with slick and sloppy trails, and Amy Demarco received in 5:45 along males’s highest Alex Faravich in 5:04. Complete effects (when to be had.)
Pilot Mountain to Putting Rock – Pinnacle, North Carolina
The race connects its two namesake state parks. Tiffany Bjornstad and Marshall Daniels received the 50 miler in 10:38 and 9:37, and Julia Draughn and Samuel Haynes took the 50k in 5:56 and four:28. Complete effects.
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