Austria introduced two massive races to the weekend, and the U.S. took us to World’s End and different wild locations. This Week in Running is a various mixture of races and tales. Happy Monday!
European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships – Annecy, France
Individual and crew medals had been up for grabs throughout Uphill Mountain, Trail, and Up and Down Mountain races. The races occurred over three days with many runners doubling on the Friday and Sunday shorter distances.
Uphill Mountain Race
The Friday, May 31 race went almost eight kilometers, or 5 miles, all uphill. As with a number of different races in western and central Europe on the weekend, the senior races had been run in rain and on mud.
Joe Steward (U.Okay.) raced up in 42:37, successful by over a minute. Jacob Adkin (U.Okay.) was second in 43:55 and Lukas Ehrle (Germany), simply 19 years outdated, was third in 44:23.
Joe Steward successful the 2024 European Athletics Off-Road Running Running Championships Uphill Mountain Race. Photo: Gwendal Hamon/FFA
Women’s winner Nina Engelhard (Germany) charged to the entrance early and hit the highest in 50:08, additionally successful by over a minute. Scout Adkin (U.Okay.) matched her brother with a silver medal in 51:43, and Mădălina Florea (Romania) was third in 52:33.
Nina Engelhard successful the 2024 European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships Uphill Mountain Race. Photo: Gwendal Hamon/FFA
Trail Race
Day two was the lengthy course, a roughly 57k mountain observe, and French runners swept each the boys’s and ladies’s podiums.
For the boys, Thomas Cardin, Benjamin Roubiol, and Loïc Rolland completed on the prime in 4:58, 5:04, and 5:07.
And for the ladies, it was Clementine Geoffray, Blandine L’Hirondel, and Adeline Martin on the prime in 5:44, 5:53, and 5:56.
The triumphant French girls on the 2024 European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships Trail Race (l-to-r): 3. Adeline Martin, 2. Blandine L’Hirondel, 1. Clementine Geoffray, and 4. Julie Roux. Photo: Alanis Duc/FFA
Up and Down Mountain Race
Skyrunning ace Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) received particular person gold within the Sunday males’s race in 1:11:28, solely three seconds forward of Lukas Ehrle, who had bested Delorenzi by one place and 18 seconds in taking bronze within the Uphill Mountain Race on Fridays. As such, it was Ehrle’s second particular person medal on the weekend. Theodore Klein (France), who was sixth within the Uphill Mountain Race, collected a bronze in 1:11:49. The race ran 16k in distance and Delorenzi overcame a fallacious flip to achieve the win, and Klein overcame a late muddy fall to carry onto third.
Uphill Mountain Race winner Nina Engelhard doubled again for a second gold on the weekend. Engelhard received a detailed race in opposition to Judith Wyder (Switzerland) and Mădălina Florea. Only 28 seconds separated the three, with Engelhard on the entrance in 1:22:44. Wyder, who was sixth in Friday’s Uphill Mountain Race, vaulted from fourth to second within the last kilometer to complete second in 1:23:09 and Florea was third in 1:23:12.
Global Organization of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners (GOMU) 48-Hour World Championships – Balatonfüred, Hungary
Bartosz Fudali (Poland), Nicolás de las Heras Monforte (Spain), and Beda Szabolcs (Hungary) earned males’s medals with 447.293, 441.343, and 433.869 kilometers. That’s 277.9, 274.3, and 269.6 miles.
But it was the ladies that basically shined at this race.
Three girls beat the 400-kilometer mark (248.5 miles), and Stine Rex (Denmark) ran quicker than Camille Herron’s world file, whereas Irina Masanova (Russia, lives in Cyprus) got here oh-so-close.
Stine Rex on her strategy to successful the 2024 GOMU 48-Hour World Championships. Photo: Runion/Pápai Heni
Rex and and Masanova each had been extremely shut to one another into the ultimate minutes. Rex totaled 435.564 kilometers and Masanova ran 434.912 kilometers. That’s 270.6 and 270.2 miles.
Herron’s 48-hour world file is 435.336 kilometers, and so Rex went 228 meters additional.
The International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) maintains the 48-hour world file books and this occasion will not be IAU licensed, so Rex’s run isn’t eligible for world file ratification.
Behind Rex and Masanova and over that 400k mark, third-place Viktória Brown (Hungary, lives in Canada) went for 405.025 kilometers, or 251.7 miles.
Mozart by UTMB – Salzburg, Austria
The occasion introduced 3,200 runners to the birthplace of Mozart and the movie location of “The Sound of Music,” however the climate was this yr’s tune. Strong winds, chilly temperatures, and heavy rain pushed the occasion’s two longest races onto alternate programs. A 15-kilometer part of every course was rerouted, however the authentic distance and elevation achieve largely held. Many runners remarked at how technical the downhill sections turned within the muddy circumstances.
Did we point out it was moist on the 2024 Mozart by UTMB race? Photo: UTMB
Mozart 100k
The occasion’s longest race went for 65 miles. Jack Chamberlain (U.Okay.) led the boys with an 11:19 end. Paweł Czerniak (Poland) and Carlo Salvetti (Italy) had been up subsequent on the rostrum at 11:28 and 11:33.
Women’s winner Fiona Pascall ensured a British sweep of the highest spots with a 12:06 run. Claudia Chmielowska (Poland) and Maryline Nakache (France) bought underneath 13 hours with 12:44 and 12:52 second- and third-place finishes.
Mozart Ultra
The 50-mile race climbed 13,451 toes on its course round Salzburg. Žan Žepič (Slovenia) received the boys’s race in 7:50, and Bernhard Mackner (Austria) was second in 8:15. Tomáš Franče (Czech Republic) climbed to the third place in 8:45.
Cristina Santurino (Spain) championed the ladies’s race in 10:21. Sara Ammann (Switzerland) and Katerina Pospisilova (Czech Republic) had been second and third in 10:50 and 11:00.
Mozart Marathon
The prime three males got here in underneath three hours. Andrzej Witek (Poland), Sven Koch (Germany), and Jonas Hesthaug (Norway) hit the rostrum in 2:54, 2:57, and a pair of:58, respectively.
The girls’s leaders had been particularly shut too. Nuria Gil (Spain) edged Gemma Hillier-Moses (U.Okay.) for the win in 3:35. Hillier-Moses was solely 47 seconds again at 3:36, and third-place Katarina Lovrantova (Slovakia) was proper there too in 3:38.
Hochkönig Skyrace – Maria Alm, Austria
The race was nearly an hour away from the Mozart by UTMB occasion, and excessive nation climate additionally pushed the race to its decrease “B” route. Even then circumstances had been so difficult that greater than 30% of the sector didn’t end the 32k course. The race was the yr’s sixth Skyrunner World Series contest.
Men
The males’s podium was totally Italian. Lorenzo Beltrami, Daniel Antonioli, and William Boffelli completed in 3:15, 3:18, and three:19, respectively.
Women
Hillary Gerardi (U.S., lives in France) gained the final word lead on the race’s second climb and stayed in entrance for a 4:07 end. Iris Pessey (France) and Ingrid Mutter (Romania) joined Gerardi on the rostrum with 4:14 and 4:15 marks. Pessey and Mutter had been solely 28 seconds aside.
Iris Pessey getting a style of the snow on the 2024 Höchkonig Skyrace. Photo: Antton Guaresti
Additional Races and Runs
MaXi-Race du lac d’Annecy – Lyon, France
The 93k race (58 miles) across the lake featured a bunch of French all stars. After going forwards and backwards for a lot of the boys’s race, Mathieu Blanchard pulled away ever so barely within the last 20k to attain the boys’s win. He completed in 9:10, and Thibaut Garrivier and Aurelien Dunand-Pallaz had been second and third in 9:17 and 9:28. French runners swept the ladies’s podium too. Camille Bruyas was first in 11:00, and Fiona Porte and Anne-Cicile Thevenot had been subsequent 11:12 and 11:47. Full outcomes.
Smith Rock Classic – Terrebonne, Oregon
Alpine Running’s inaugural occasion at Smith Rock State Park topped Kyle Schenone and Rachel Hawkins as its 50-mile winners in 7:46 and eight:20, and Lance Cundy and Brooke Carmen went the quickest within the 50k at 4:09 and 4:47. Full outcomes.
Rachel Hawkins on her strategy to successful the 2024 Smith Rock Classic 50 Mile. Photo: Steven Mortinson/Alpine Running
Stumptown 50k – Portland, Oregon
The race was on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27 in Forest Park and on the favored Wildwood Trail. Race winners Clark Morgan and Julija Soryte ripped via course and its 4,000 toes of achieve in 3:54 and 4:38. Full outcomes.
The Stumptown 50k winner, Clark Morgan. Photo: Full Send Media
Cape Mountain 50k – Florence, Oregon
The two-lap race was received by Ian Wildermuth and Alex Borsuk in 4:42 and 4:41. The two had been 42 seconds aside with Borsuk each the general and ladies’s winner, and in new course file time. Full outcomes.
Dirty Half Marathon – Bend, Oregon
Mario Mendoza and Jess Schueler received the path half marathon in 1:16 and 1:32. Both races had been shut. Mendoza was solely 9 seconds in entrance of Bailey Smith and Schueler edged out Lina Mann by 30 seconds. Full outcomes.
Cool Moon Trail Runs – Cool, California
The 100-mile wins went to Jakob Walter and Lindsay Kasow in 21:32 and 25:53. Full outcomes.
XTERRA Deadwood Mickelson Trail Marathon – Deadwood, South Dakota
On a rails-to-trails course, Andrew Kimpel and Nicolette Schmidt received in 2:46 and three:19. Full outcomes.
Pi within the Sky – Phoenix, Arizona
The low-key first-year 8 miler despatched runners up Piestewa Peak. Top finishers Quinton Burden and Kelsey Sikkema completed in 1:18 and 1:46. Full outcomes.
North Fork 50 Mile – Buffalo Creek, Colorado
Jim Rebenack and Ellen Cannon received the 50-mile race in 7:22 and eight:59, and Ryan Sullivan and Colleen Noonan had been tops within the 50k in 3:42 and 4:38. Full outcomes.
Crater Trail Run 50k – Decorah, Iowa
Race winners Kory Kowallis and Lila Planavsky completed in 4:38 and 6:24. Full outcomes.
Mohican 100 Mile – Loudonville, Ohio
It’s one of many nation’s oldest 100 milers, and this yr it was James Solomon and Brenda Johnson on prime in 19:27 and 21:16. Over 50 miles, Jeremy Pope and Shari Hastings received in 7:39 and 9:57. Full outcomes.
World’s End Ultramarathons – Forksville, Pennsylvania
Both the 100k and 50k ran as a single loop largely in World’s End State Park. Trevor Fye and Mackenzie Nolan had been on the prime of the 100k in 11:39 and 13:50, and Dean Banko and Katie Bicksler had been greatest within the 50k at 5:30 and 6:12. Full outcomes.
Capital Backyard Ultra – Lorton, Virginia
This is usually one of many extra aggressive yard ultras and so they had been nonetheless operating after we reported final week. When it was performed, Levi Yoder outdistanced Jennifer Russo 270 miles to 266 miles. A yr earlier Yoder stopped at 262 miles when Russo totaled 308 miles. Full outcomes.
Old Dominion 100 Mile – Woodstock, Virginia
Official outcomes haven’t but hit the online on the time of this text’s writing on Sunday night time, however social media factors to John Kelly successful in 15:44. Might a reader have the ability to share the ladies’s winner? Full outcomes (when out there).
Cayuga Trails – Ithaca, New York
In the 50-mile providing, it was Parker Weeks and Meagan Hanifee who took house the wins in 7:36 and eight:57, respectively. In the 50k, it was Greg Close in 4:54 and Valeria Garcia-Martinez in 6:05. Full outcomes.
Parker Weeks charging forward on his strategy to successful the 2024 Cayuga Trails 50 Mile. Photo: Goat Factory Media
Chocorua Mountain Race – Tamworth, New Hampshire
The roughly 23k race ran a lollipop route with 4,500 toes of elevation achieve via the White Mountain National Forest. Michael Conley and Abby Bennett had been champs in 2:32 and a pair of:48, respectively. Full outcomes.
Call for Comments
- What did you race, crew, or spectate this weekend?
- Got any further intel on the races coated on this article?