The Golden Path International Collection got here to The united states, and prize-money wealthy mountain races just like the Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile and The Rut shined on a hectic September weekend.
You’ll additionally take a look at our larger race protection from previous within the week:
Headlands 27k – Mill Valley, California
The kind of 18-mile race was once a part of the Golden Path International Collection (GTWS), and it took place on a direction that received 4,200 toes of elevation on a few of Marin County’s most famed trails. The ladies’s and males’s races uniquely ran on separate days. The ladies starred on Saturday and the lads raced on Sunday.
Ladies
Thirty mins into the race, Madalina Florea (Romania) and Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) had opened a minute lead on the remainder of the sector. The 25-year-old American citizens Lauren Gregory and Anna Gibson ran in 0.33 and fourth, every 20 seconds forward of the following staff of chasers.
Joyce Muthoni Njeru, the 2024 Headlands 27k ladies’s winner. Picture: Golden Path Collection/Headlands 27k/@Emerging.Tale /@MathisDecroux
By the point they reached Stinson Seashore an hour later, 90 mins into the race, Muthoni Njeru had received a 13-second lead on Florea, and Judith Wyder (Switzerland) had overtaken Gibson for fourth. The 2024 OCC 55k winner Miao Yao (China) hadn’t but discovered the quicker tempo and was once again in tenth.
Muthoni Njeru stretched that lead additional the remainder of the best way and the highest 3 stayed in that order to the end. Muthoni Njeru gained in 2:17:36, and it was once her moment GTWS victory of the yr. Florea was once moment in 2:18:23, and Gregory completed 0.33 at 2:19:16.
Wyder and Yao, the 2024 OCC runner-up and winner simply two weeks in the past, completed fourth and 6th, respectively.
The ladies’s most sensible 10 was once:
- Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 2:17:36
- Madalina Florea (Romania) – 2:18:23
- Lauren Gregory (U.S.) – 2:19:16
- Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – 2:22:21
- Oria Liaci (Switzerland) – 2:24:27
- Miao Yao (China) – 2:25:26
- Anna Gibson (U.S.) – 2:25:40
- Julia Font (Spain) – 2:25:54
- Allie Ostrander (U.S.) – 2:27:05
- Rachel Tomajczyk (U.S.) – 2:27:33
(In 2023, Ostrander was once suspended for 4 months after checking out certain for canrenone, a metabolite of spironolactone, after it was once decided that she mistakenly took the drug with out first acquiring a International Anti-Doping Company Healing Use Exemption.)
Males
Early on it gave the impression of a revenge run for Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) and Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland). Ombogo Kiriago, this yr’s Sierre-Zinal runner-up, was once most effective 6th finally weekend’s Cirque Collection race. And Bonnet dropped from the OCC 55k two weeks in the past. The ones two led 24 mins into the race on the Dipsea Height timing level along Elhousine Elazzoui (Morocco).
That three-man staff stayed in combination for the following hour and most effective Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) was once shut, however even he’d misplaced a couple of extra seconds and now was once 19 seconds in the back of in fourth.
Ombogo Kiriago and Elazzoui dropped Bonnet within the ultimate miles and Elazzoui outsprinted Ombogo Kiriago for the victory. Elazzoui gained the race in 1:55:27. Ombogo Kiriago was once moment in 1:55:29, and Kipngeno overtook Bonnet for 0.33. Kipngeno completed in 1:56:01 and Bonnet pale to a fourth-place 1:57:58.
Elhousine Elazzoui, the 2024 Headlands 27k males’s winner. Picture: Golden Path Collection/Headlands27k/@SODSTUDIOS
The boys’s most sensible 10 was once:
- Elhousine Elazzoui (Morocco) – 1:55:27
- Philemon Kiriago Ombogo (Kenya) – 1:55:29
- Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 1:56:01
- Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) – 1:57:58
- Christian Allen (U.S.) – 2:01:39
- Miguel Corbera (Spain) – 2:02:12
- Frederic Tranchand (France) – 2:02:46
- Cesare Maestri (Italy) – 2:03:31
- Bartłomiej Przedwojewski (Poland) – 2:04:01
- Cade Michael (U.S.) – 2:04:34
The Rut Mountain Runs – Large Sky, Montana
The 3-day Montana mountain working birthday celebration paid out a $3,500 prize handbag for the Vertical Ok, and $9,000 in every of the 28k and 50k. The races had been highlighted via double and returning winners from previous races and previous years.
Lone Height Vertical Kilometer
After a get started on the Large Sky Hotel base space, the race climbed 3,632 toes to the 11,166-foot summit of Lone Height, all inside of 2.8 miles, and there was once snow on the most sensible.
Jennifer Lichter hit the prime level end first within the ladies’s race at 56:59. Klaire Rhodes was once moment in 58:30, and Caitlin Patterson climbed up in 60:28 for 0.33.
Males’s winner Cam Smith began his weekend with a 46:08 race to the highest. Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau and Ryan Becker had been moment and 0.33 on the summit in 47:41 and 48:40.
28k
Make it 3 in a row for Bailey Kowalczyk. After a second-place end in 2021, Kowalcyzk has dominated the ladies’s race. This yr marked her 0.33 directly victory. Kowalcyzk gained this yr’s race in 3:35. Doubling again from the Vertical Ok, Jennifer Lichter was once an in depth moment in 3:37, and Denali Strabel was once 0.33 in 3:55.
And make it two in a row for Cam Smith. After successful Friday’s Vertical Ok, he gained Saturday’s 28k too. Smith gained in 3:03. He previous gained this race in 2022. Scott Patterson and 2023 race winner Johnny Luna-Lima had been moment and 0.33 in 3:10 and three:11, respectively.
50k
Vertical Ok runner-up Klaire Rhodes scored a brand new ladies’s 50k direction document in 5:45. Jazmine Lowther (Canada) was once moment in 5:53, a bounce-back run after losing on the CCC 100k two weeks in the past, and Hannah Osowski completed 0.33 in 5:56.
Michelino Sunseri gained the lads’s 50k for the second one directly yr. He completed in 5:01. At the back of the race winner, Ryan Becker and Scott Patterson earned their moment podium finishes of the weekend with second- and third-place 5:09 and 5:20 runs. Patterson was once fourth within the Vertical Ok too in his three-race weekend.
Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile – Steamboat Springs, Colorado
The race was once once more North The united states’s richest extremely. Race winners earned $15,000, and had the risk for even larger money with high and two-person staff bonuses. The entire winnings totaled over $100,000 and prize cash was once paid right down to the seventh-place ladies’s and males’s finishers.
Ladies
Emilie Mann (Canada) took down Michele Yates’s longstanding direction document within the ladies’s race. Mann become the race’s first sub-20 hour ladies’s finisher with a 19:48 run. It sounds as if to had been Mann’s debut 100-mile race too, even though she’d previous coated the gap in a yard extremely. The previous 20:16 direction highest dated to 2013 and was once run as a part of Yates’s “UltraRunning Mag” (North American) Ultrarunner of the Yr marketing campaign.
Emilie Mann, 2024 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile ladies’s champ, at the first climb. Picture: Kellie Thompson/Hidden Antelope Pictures/@hiddenantelope
2nd-place Leah Yingling was once slightly in the back of that outdated direction document too. Yingling completed in 20:19. Shea Aquilano crossed the road subsequent, however was once later disqualified when it emerged that she had by chance long gone off the direction, and so Barrett Grey claimed the 0.33 podium spot.
11 years after that direction document run, Yates was once the seventh-place lady in 22:29.
Males
Richard Lockwood ran clear of the sector overdue and become a two-time Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile winner. His 17:24 end this yr was once means quicker than his 18:01 successful time from 2022, and it was once the race’s third-fastest end ever too.
Richard Lockwood, 2024 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile males’s champion, greeted on the end via race director Fred Abramowitz. Picture: Kellie Thompson/Hidden Antelope Pictures/@hiddenantelope
2nd- and third-place Adam Loomis and Christopher Hammes completed in 18:12 and 18:56, respectively. Loomis overcame a drop finally yr’s race, and Hammes earned his fourth end on the race.
International Masters Mountain Operating Championships – Canfranc, Spain
The twenty third International Masters Mountain Operating Championships introduced 1,400 runners from 35 other nations to the Pyrenees. It was once the development’s first time website hosting Uphill, Vintage, and Lengthy Distance races. The contest was once open to runners elderly 35 and older. As with different races in Central Europe at the weekend, chillier temperatures moved into the realm or even introduced snow to the prime peaks.
Uphill
The primary 10 ladies finished the 1,000-meter climb and its 6 kilometers in distance in beneath an hour, however Camilla Magliano (Italy) was once just about two mins forward of everybody else in 53:34, and that was once just the beginning of her weekend. Viktoria Wilkinson (U.Ok.) and Sladjana Zagorac (Serbia) had been moment and 0.33 in 55:26 and 55:31.
Camilla Magliano, the 2024 International Masters Mountain Operating Championships Uphill ladies’s winner. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Eduard Hernandez (Spain) gained an in depth males’s race in opposition to Thomas Roach (U.Ok.) via simply 18 seconds. The 2 frontrunners hit the highest in 43:45 and 44:04, and third-place Andrew Douglas (U.Ok.) got here subsequent in 45:04.
(Roach served a three-month International Athletics doping ban from October 2021 to January 2022 after checking out certain for Carboxy-THC on the 2021 International Masters Mountain Operating Championships in Stubai, Austria.)
Eduard Hernandez, the 2024 International Masters Mountain Operating Championships Uphill males’s winner. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Lengthy Distance
The Saturday race stretched 34k in distance and with 2,000 meters of elevation achieve throughout two giant climbs. It was once once more Magliano main the ladies. She gained gold in 3:40. Frenchwomen Mylène Da Costa Reis and Maud Combarieu joined her at the podium in 3:54 and three:59.
Roach doubled again from his silver within the Vertical race to win the lads’s Lengthy Distance tournament in 3:06. Daniel Remon Senoran and Antonio Alfonso Ruiz Rojo, either one of Spain, had been moment and 0.33 in 3:16 and most effective 30 seconds aside.
Vintage
The 17k race went up and down with 1,000 meters of ascent and who else wouldn’t it be first on the end as opposed to Camilla Magliano. The Italian all-star finished an excellent three-race sweep of the weekend occasions with a 1:41 end. Kealey Tideswell (Eire) was once moment in 1:45 and Maria Rebeca Marino Torrado (Spain) completed 0.33 in 1:50.
The 2024 International Masters Mountain Operating Championships Vintage ladies’s podium: 2. Kealey Tideswell, 1. Camilla Magliano, 3. Maria Rebeca Marino Torrado. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
3rd and primary within the Vertical Ok, Andrew Douglas and Eduard Hernandez got here for a rematch. At the up and down direction it was once Douglas that gained in 1:22, slightly 13 seconds forward of second-place Hernandez. Xavier Tomasa Serrano (Spain) was once 0.33 in 1:28.
Andrew Douglas, 2024 International Masters Mountain Operating Championships Vintage males’s winner. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Tor des Géants – Courmayeur, Italy
Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) led all the 205-mile run and set a brand new direction document in 79:10. Hartmuth become the primary lady to complete the journey in beneath 80 hours. 2nd-place and previous direction document holder Sabrina Verjee (U.Ok.) was once moment in 84:03 and Claire Bannwarth (France) was once 0.33 in 85:02. Bannwarth was once 18th at UTMB two weeks in the past.
François D’Haene (France) gained a spirited males’s race in 69:08. Regardless that 4 hours forward of moment, D’Haene didn’t achieve the lead till overdue within the lengthy haul race. Beñat Marmissolle (France) was once moment in 73:10 and Martin Perrier (Switzerland) completed 0.33 in 75:35.
Further Races and Runs
Wildstrubel via UTMB – Valais, Switzerland
Iciness climate lower the 50k race to only 23 miles. Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway) and Jon Albon (U.Ok., lives in Norway) gained the reroute in 3:19 and a pair of:59, respectively. Complete effects.
Undeniable 100 Mile – Undeniable, Washington
The race mirrors its location. It’s simple without a direction markings, no support stations, and no pacers. Christine Mosley and Jeremy Douglas (Canada) gained in 28:40 and 22:23. Complete effects.
Ouray 50 Mile – Ouray, Colorado
Isabella Poulos and Lucas Foreman ran away with wins in 16:55 and 15:18, respectively. The little sister of the Ouray 100 Mile, the 50-mile tournament covers the again part of the 100-mile direction and has greater than 20,000 toes of elevation achieve throughout the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. Poulos led the full race for the primary part prior to handing the lead over to Foreman after the fourth of 7 climbs and completed an excellent moment total. Complete effects.
Isabella Poulos, the 2024 Ouray 50 Mile ladies’s champion. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Lucas Foreman, the 2024 Ouray 50 Mile males’s champion. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
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