The Javelina 100 Mile, Skyrunner Global Sequence, and Giant Canine’s Yard Extremely are about as other as they arrive. And that race variety is a part of what I like about scripting this column.
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Javelina 100 Mile – Fountain Hills, Arizona
The race was once a Western States 100 Golden Price tag Race with two entries up for grabs. The Halloween-themed race is administered on a five-loop route.
Males
Till Dakota Jones ran 12:58 finally yr’s race, nobody had ever run beneath 13 hours at Javelina. This yr the top-three males did simply that.
Jonathan Rea gained the race and set the brand new route file at 12:43. Rea was once moment in 2022 right here in 13:05, after which completed 14th on the Western States 100 in June 2023. The win right here assures him a shuttle again in 2024.
2nd-place Blake Slattengren completed in 12:58, most effective 5 seconds again of Jones’s former route file. It was once Slattengren’s 100-mile debut after a number of U.S. Pacific Northwest shorter ultras, together with a runner-up spot on the 2023 Gorge Waterfalls 100k. Slattengren, like Rea, accredited the Golden Price tag.
Ryan Sir Bernard Law, who identifies as non-binary however races within the males’s department, was once most effective 59 seconds at the back of Slattengren at 12:59 for 1/3.
Ladies
Remaining yr Heather Jackson made her extremely debut right here with a fifteen:42 fifth-place run that also ranked as Tenth-best ever. This yr Jackson ran robust for the whole thing of the race and completed in 14:24. That’s the race’s second-fastest run ever. Jackson began the 2023 Western States 100 however didn’t end. She accredited the Golden Price tag for a go back shuttle in 2024.
2nd-place Ragna Debats (Netherlands, lives in Spain) completed in 14:55, the race’s sixth-best run ever. She was once 1/3 on the Western States 100 in 2021. Debats accredited her Golden Price tag.
Riley Brady, who identifies as non-binary however races within the ladies’s department, was once 1/3 this yr in 15:29. Brady was once ultimate yr’s runner up in 14:45.
Limone Xtreme Skymasters – Limone Sul Garda, Italy
After 13 races, the 2023 Skyrunner Global Sequence completed the season right here. The SkyMasters contest introduced one of the crucial height runners from 20 other nations to a 22-kilometer race totaled 2,055 meters of elevation acquire. That’s 13.67 miles and six,742 toes.
Males
Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) led from the bounce and gained in 2:23.
Downhill ace Manuel Merillas (Spain) closed exhausting and completed simply 31 seconds again, additionally in 2:23. Antonio Martínez (Spain) was once 1/3 in 2:25.
Roberto Delorenzi, 2023 Limone Xtreme Skymasters champion. Photograph: Antton Guaresti
Martínez gained the whole sequence and pocketed €20,000 in prize cash.
Antonio Martínez celebrating after changing into the 2023 Skyrunner Global Sequence winner. Photograph: Antton Guaresti
Ladies
Sara Alonso (Spain) hadn’t but raced on this yr’s Skyrunner Global Sequence, however won a wild card access and took complete benefit of it. Alonso raced in entrance from begin to end and gained in 2:56.
Karina Carsolio (Mexico) flew down the overall descent to transport into moment in 3:00, and third-place Olivia Magnone (France) completed in 3:02.
Sara Alonso, 2023 Limone Xtreme Skymasters champion. Photograph: Antton Guaresti
Handiest fourth on this race, Clementine Geoffray (France) was once the sequence’s total winner, and prefer males’s winner Martinez, she too gained €20,000.
Clementine Geoffray on her solution to changing into the 2023 Skyrunner Global Sequence winner. Photograph: Philipp Reiter/The Journey Bakery
Giant Canine’s Yard Extremely – Bell Buckle, Tennessee
It was once out of the ordinary what the backyarders did in Tennessee. The race, which was once the arena championships of yard ultrarunning, had an elite box of 75 runners from 40 other nations. iRunFar previous coated the development.
3 males — Harvey Lewis (U.S.), Ihor Verys (Ukraine, lives in Canada), and Bartosz Fudali (Poland) — all went previous the former international file, then held via Phil Gore (Australia) at 102 yards. Fudali stopped after his 103rd hour, and Lewis and Verys stored going. After all, Verys returned to camp after beginning however no longer finishing hour 108, whilst Lewis finished the backyard to win the race and set the brand new yard extremely international file. Lewis’s 108 yards over 108 hours totaled an implausible 450 miles. Timewise, that’s 4 days and 12 hours of working.
Harvey Lewis pauses between yards within the overdue levels of the 2023 Giant Canine’s Yard Extremely. Photograph: Mike Trimpe
Claire Bannwarth (France), who just one week previous gained the Kodiak 100 Mile via UTMB race, was once the ultimate girl status. She ran 250 miles over 60 yards in 60 hours. Amanda Nelson (Canada) went just about as a long way too. Nelson totaled 237 miles over 57 hours working.
Claire Bannwarth, the ultimate girl status on the 2023 Giant Canine’s Yard Extremely. Photograph: Keith Knipling
Further Races and Runs
Guy Towards Horse 50 Mile – Prescott, Arizona
Race winner Peter Mortimer beat the horses with a 7:35 50-mile end. He was once smartly over 90 mins higher than the primary horse. The primary horse to complete was once ridden via Jennifer Herbert. Ladies’s winner Stephanie Rosebaugh completed in 9:12. Complete effects.
Peter Mortimer profitable 2023 Guy Towards Horse 50 Mile. Photograph: Melissa Ruse
Jennifer Herbert and her horse on the 2023 Guy Towards Horse 50 Mile. The staff was once the primary horse to complete. Photograph: James Bonnett
Stephanie Rosebaugh, 2023 Guy Towards Horse 50 Mile ladies’s champion. Photograph: James Bonnett
Javelina Jundred 100k – Fountain Hills, Arizona
Within the undercard to the 100-mile race, Rajpaul Pannu and Anna Kacius gained the 100k race in 7:15 and eight:13. Each finishes had been new route information. Complete effects.
Mammoth Cave 50k – Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The 1/3 annual race had Jack Harding and Geri Keller main the best way in 4:59 and 5:35. Complete effects.
Stone Steps 50k – Cincinnati, Ohio
Males’s winner Brendan Buten completed in 4:56 and girls’s champ Zoe Crabtree crossed in 6:09. Complete effects.
Ozark Path 100 Mile – Steelville, Missouri
Tentative effects are in, and it’s taking a look like Cody Jones and Lily Charles gained at the point-to-point race at the iconic Ozark Path. Jones got here house in 19:12, whilst Charles completed in 22:07. Complete effects.
Cody Jones, 2023 Ozark Path 100 Mile champion. Photograph: Ozark Path 100 Mile
Lily Charles (proper) on her solution to profitable the 2023 Ozark Path 100 Mile. Photograph: Ozark Path 100 Mile
Marine Corps Marathon 50k – Arlington, Virginia
Calum Neff and Anna Staats led the marathon match’s extremely distance race in 2:55 and three:35. Complete effects.
Georgia Sky to Summit 50k – Dillard, Georgia
This race was once run on a difficult route that totaled 7,500 toes of elevation acquire. Handiest the top-three males completed beneath six hours. Lukas Burrer gained in 5:46, and Brian O’Neill beat out Gary Conner via most effective two seconds for moment position. Each completed in 5:52. Caroline Moore took the ladies’s crown in 6:06, and Brooke Jones and Maria Martinez Ferrandiz had been moment and 1/3 in 6:25 and six:33, respectively. Complete effects.
2024 Skyrunner Global Sequence
The 2023 sequence wrapped up and the 2024 calendar was once introduced.
- April 6 – Calamorro Skyrace – Spain
- Would possibly 2 – Acantilados del Norte – Spain
- Would possibly 4 – Skyrace des Matheysins – France
- Would possibly 18 – Skyrace des Gorges du Tarn – France
- Would possibly 25 – Orizaba Skyrace – Mexico
- June 1 – Hochkönigman Skyrace – Austria
- June 6 – Cordillera Blanca Skyrace – Peru
- June 15 – Madeira Skyrace – Portugal
- June 22 – Minotaur Skyrace – Canada
- June 23 – Skyrace du Mercantour – France
- June 29 – Kaiserkrone Skyrace – Austria
- August 23 – Matterhorn Ultraks – Switzerland
- August 25 – Trofeo Kima – Italy
- September 22 – Maga SkyMarathon – Italy
- September 28 – Gorbeai Suzien – Spain
- October 12 – Limone Excessive Skyrace – Italy
- October 26 – 2 Peaks Skyrace – South Korea
- November 2 – Penang Skyrace – Malaysia
- November 9 – Sagalassos Skyrace – Turkey
- November 16 – Marato del Dements – Spain
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