Closing week was once so much, and now we’re again to our commonplace geographic combine, distance and terrain selection. That incorporates the Skyrunning International Championships, a aggressive Cirque Sequence race, the Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile, and a $10,000 prize handbag in West Virginia.
Skyrunning International Championships – Soria, Spain
The Skyrunning International Championships and its 3 racing disciplines came about over the weekend, placed on by way of the game of skyrunning’s governing frame, the World Skyrunning Federation (ISF).
For readability, the Skyrunning International Championships don’t seem to be a part of the Skyrunner International Sequence. The Skyrunner International Sequence is an unbiased annual collection sanctioned by way of the ISF that culminates in its personal championship match, SkyMasters.
Vertical
Friday’s vertical race went up 1,050 meters over 4.8 kilometers.
Alain Santamaría (Spain) trailed Joseph Demoor (U.S.) by way of 14 seconds with 9 mins to move, however overtook the American at the path’s easiest slopes. Santamaría received in 40:56 and Demoor was once moment in 41:00. Alex Oberacher (Italy) was once 0.33 in 42:11.
Ladies’s winner Naiara Irigoyen (Spain) separated from Paola Stampanoni (Switzerland) and Benedetta Broggi (Italy) at the prime phase and received in 50:08. Stampanoni and Broggi had been moment and 0.33 in 50:27 and 50:43.
SkyUltra
The Saturday lengthy race went for 70k with 4,350 meters of mountain climbing.
Cristian Minoggio (Italy) dominated the boys’s race. He was once means out in entrance of everybody with a 6:53 end. Jesus Gil (Spain) and Shoma Otagiri (Japan) got here subsequent in 7:21 and seven:28.
The ladies had been extra intently bunched. Giula Marchesoni (Italy) opened a small lead over the overall 3 hours and stayed in entrance for victory in 8:38. Honoka Akiyama (Japan) and Gemma Arenas (Spain) podiumed with 8:43 and eight:48 finishes.
Sky
The development culminated with Sunday’s 37k race that totaled 2,540 meters of elevation acquire.
Alain Santamaría doubled again for his moment win of the weekend. He was once first in 3:33. Simply over a minute again, Lorenzo Beltrami (Italy) chased in moment at 3:34, and Ruy Ueda (Japan) earned a bronze in 0.33 at 3:39.
Alain Santamaría, the 2024 Skyrunning International Championships 37k males’s winner. Picture: ISF/iancorless.com
Swedish runners Louise Jernberg and Barbro Fjällstedt led the ladies’s staff in 4:25 and four:27, and Karina Carsolio (Mexico) was once 0.33 in 4:30.
The 2024 Skyrunning International Championships girls’s podium (left-to-right): 2. Barbro Fjällstedt, 1. Louise Jernberg, and three. Karina Carsolio. Picture: ISF/iancorless.com
International’s Quickest Run – Vilnius, Lithuania
I had Rocky IV vibes going into this one, however data and report makes an attempt are fickle. The 100k global report holder Aleksandr Sorokin (Lithuania) didn’t get started the race because of damage, and 50-mile global report holder Charlie Lawrence (U.S.) dropped 65k into the race.
Toru Somiya (Japan) was once the 100k race winner in 6:42. 2nd-place Dariusz Nozynski (Poland) completed in 6:44 and Tomas Bizimavičius (Lithuania) was once 0.33 in 6:48. Sorokin’s global report of 6:05 from 2023 nonetheless stands.
Toru Somiya, the 2024 International’s Quickest Run 100k males’s winner. Picture: Saulius Čirba
Andrea Pomaranski (U.S.) received the ladies’s race in 8:50. Pomaranski was once moment on the 2023 IAU 50k International Championships.
Remigijus Kančys (Lithuania) received the 50k in 2:49 and set a brand new nationwide report.
Andrea Pomaranski, the 2024 International’s Quickest Run 100k feminine winner. Picture: Saulius Čirba
Cirque Sequence – Arapahoe Basin, Colorado
The 12 months’s ultimate Cirque Sequence race went 9.2 miles from the Arapahoe Basin ski space. After a prime altitude 10,780-foot get started, the race climbed 2,411 ft. The race paid out $1,000 to its winners.
Males
Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) is again within the U.S., and driving a profitable streak. He received two International Mountain Operating Affiliation International Cup races final weekend and driven that streak to a few in a row. Kipgneno conquered the Cirque Sequence path in 1:04:31. He’ll opt for win 4 in a row subsequent weekend on the Golden Path International Sequence contest in California.
2nd-place Johen Deleon got here out of nowhere to complete at the podium in 1:05:13. The 26-year-old has restricted path effects so far. Maximum lately he was once twentieth on the 2023 Pikes Top Ascent.
Joseph Grey was once 0.33 in 1:05:48. The entire most sensible 3 males beat Eli Hemming’s 2023 profitable time.
Deeper effects integrated Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) in 6th at 1:09:17. After a moment and primary on the final two Sierre-Zinal races, I’m satisfied Kiriago runs his best possible at Sierre-Zinal.
Ladies
Jane Maus shined within the girls’s race with a 1:19:26 first-place run. Maus received the July 2024 Silverton Alpine Marathon and has the Javelina 100k on her calendar subsequent for October 2024.
Alexa Aragon and Jamie Brusa had been moment and 0.33 in 1:21:45 and 1:24:10, respectively.
Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile – Kaysville, Utah
The purpose-to-point run totals 24,000 ft of elevation acquire. There have been 164 finishers towards 298 starters at the path that the race calls “100 Miles of Heaven and Hell.”
Males
Jimmy Elam toppled protecting champ Jose Cruz and for a lot of the day threatened Geoff Roes’s longstanding path report. Elam completed in 19:08. Cruz was once moment in 20:27, 24 mins higher than his profitable time from a 12 months in the past. Roes’s path best possible of 18:30 dates again to 2009, and Elam’s 19:08 seems to be the race’s second-fastest ever. The path has modified through the years. Taylor Fannin was once 0.33 in 21:13.
Jimmy Elam, the 2024 Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile males’s winner. Picture courtesy of Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile.
Ladies
Simply 25 mins separated the primary 3 girls, and simply 4 mins the primary two. Elizabeth Butler edged Lauran Hansen for the ladies’s win in 26:22. Hansen was once appropriate there too in 26:26. Andrea McAffee was once 0.33 in 26:47.
Elizabeth Butler, the 2024 Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile girls’s winner. Picture courtesy of Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile.
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The ladies’s six-day global report hadn’t been touched for 34 years till Camille Herron ran 560 miles in March of this 12 months.
And now, Stine Rex (Denmark) has eclipsed Herron’s feat. Rex completed on Sunday, September 1. She totaled 913.606k, or 567 miles.
As is commonplace, the report is pending World Affiliation of Ultrarunners (IAU) ratification.
Further Races and Runs
Endless Trails – Gastein, Austria
The development integrated a group race that totaled 21k, 35k, and 44k runs, and solo 60k, 45k, 30k, and 15k races.
Within the males’s group contest, Eric LiPuma (U.S.), Dan Jones (New Zealand), and Jeshurun Small (U.S.) led everybody with a blended 11:00 end. All 3 had been doubling again from their UTMB-weekend races.
Kim Schreiber (Germany), Martin Anthamatten (Switzerland), and Martin Dematteis (Italy) led the mixed-gender relay in 11:34, and Alexandra Danner (Germany), Sara Hutter (Italy), and Megan Lane (U.S.) teamed to win the ladies’s relay in 13:32.
The beginning of the 2024 Endless Trails. Picture: Endless Trails
Dolomitemann – Lienz, Austria
The relay race combines mountain working, paragliding, mountain cycling, and kayaking, and normally options some most sensible path runners. Richard Atuya (Kenya), Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya), and Michael Saoli (Kenya) ran the day’s first-, second-, and third- quickest opening legs, and their groups completed first, moment, and fourth. Henri Aymonod (Italy) was once the runner for the third-place group, they usually very much moved up at the mountain cycling leg. Complete effects.
Pine to Palm 100 Mile – Williams, Oregon
Jace Ives and common iRunFar contributor Annie Behrend received the point-to-point run in 21:47 and 22:40, respectively, and Behrend was once moment general. Complete effects.
Wy’east Surprise – Parkdale, Oregon
The Pass Past Racing match integrated 50 mile and 50k races on point-to-point classes most commonly on two ridges along Mount Hood. Kody Shriver and Audrey Lawrence had been tops over 50 miles in 7:52 and 9:00, and Peter Buckley and Meg Imhoff received the 50k in 4:12 and 5:20. Complete effects.
Mogollon Monster 100 Mile – Pine, Arizona
The Aravaipa Operating races comprises exceptionally rugged terrain across the Mogollon Rim. Kilian Korth and Teresa Shiflett slayed the monster in 22:37 and 29:28. Complete effects.
Satan at the Divide 50k – Empire, Colorado
Males’s winner Scott Schrader simply slightly edged out girls’s winner Megan Burke. Schrader received the prime altitude run in 5:09, however Burke scored a brand new girls’s path report in 5:10. Complete effects.
Awesome Fall Path Races – Two Harbors, Minnesota
The races run point-to-point at the Awesome Climbing Path during the Sawtooth Mountain Vary. The 100-mile winners Scott Wopota and Cheryl Matson completed in 20:54 and 27:41, and 50-mile champs Andrew Weber and Erin Inexperienced made it in 9:21 and 10:24, respectively. Complete effects.
Storm 100k – Storm, West Virginia
The race had a $10,000 prize handbag that awarded $2,500 to its winners. Nonetheless, there have been simply 32 finishers and simplest 3 girls’s finishers. The ladies’s finishers received $2,500, $1,500, and $1,000 then. For the boys, Alex Minor overcame a 2023 loss to Dan Inexperienced for the large cash. Minor received in 8:45 to Inexperienced’s 9:03. Minor’s 2022 win in 8:38 nonetheless stands because the path report. David Smith was once 0.33 guy in 10:36. Ladies’s champ Sawyer Magnett was once hours forward in 9:55. Leslie Starnes and Kimberly Arbinger had been moment and 0.33 in 13:37 and 16:34, respectively. Complete effects.
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