Edmonton’s Alissa St Laurent tamed the extremely technical 100-mile path at Grindstone via UTMB in Virginia over the weekend, operating 24:39:02 to dominate the ladies’s race and end greater than 90 mins forward of her closest competitor.
St Laurent’s commanding win Saturday provides to an astounding string of podium-topping finishes for the 39-year-old. All the way through an ultrarunning profession that now spans greater than a decade, St Laurent has prominent herself as the primary girl to turn out to be the whole winner of the Canadian Dying Race in Grande Cache, Alta., which she completed in 2015 in 13:51:21.
She’s additionally been the highest girls’s finisher at races together with Edmonton’s Blackfoot Extremely 50 miler (2013), Edmonton’s Speedy Trax 50K (2013), the Misplaced Soul Extremely 100K in, Lethbridge, Alta., (2013), the Harriers Elk/Beaver 100K in Victoria, B.C. (2014), the Run for the Toad 50K in Cambridge, Ont. (2015), the Capitol Height Mega Fats Ass 50K (2016), Arizona’s Monument Valley 50K (2019), the Giant Leader 50K in North Tahoe, Calif. (2021), the Klondike Extremely 100K in Castle Assiniboine, Alta. (2022) and the Kodiak Extremely Marathons via UTMB in Giant Undergo Lake, Calif. (2022).
The Canadian’s newest victory opened up on what has been billed as some of the hardest classes at the U.S. east coast. Starting Friday from Herbal Chimneys Park and Campground in Mt. Solon, Va., the Grindstone Extremely Working Pageant via UTMB 100 miler featured greater than 6,400 metres of vertical acquire over steep ridges and peaks within the Shenandoah Valley.
Following at the back of St Laurent to spherical out the ladies’s podium have been American citizens Shelby Johnson (26:17:52) and Serena Eley (27:53:39).
With their finishes, St Laurent, Johnson and Eley have secured their spots for subsequent 12 months’s UTMB International Collection Finals, in addition to a lottery probability to go into subsequent 12 months’s Western States 100-Mile Staying power Run and Hardrock 100.
Within the males’s 100-mile race, Mike McMonagle ran 19:10:06 to easiest fellow American runners Grant Barnette (19:50:53) and Joey Miller (20:54:00).
American citizens swept the podiums in Grindstone’s 100K race, which introduced over 3,350 metres of vertical acquire. Working 8:54:43 to position first general within the 100K was once Caleb Olson. Caleb Bowen ran 8:59:29 to position 2d and Justin Grunewald positioned 3rd, completing in 9:12:46. Lotti Banks ran 10:37:25 to most sensible the ladies’s podium, adopted via Devon Yanko (10:43:46 ) and Anna Fisher (11:11:51).
The 21K match, in the meantime, noticed every other Canadian crack the American-dominated podium. Toronto’s Shad Uadiale ran 1:51:09 to complete between winner Brandt Boggs and Steven Larick. Hollyann Swann, who completed 2d general in 1:49:18, crowned the ladies’s podium. She was once adopted via Aimee Kohler 1:55:21 and Brittany Blitzer (2:00:43).
This 12 months’s Grindstone Extremely Working Pageant via UTMB featured 800 registered runners from 46 states and 19 nations, areas and territories.