Shock, shock! There was snow in Arizona on the Black Canyon 100k and there wasn’t in Wisconsin on the U.S. Nationwide Showshoe Championships.
These races have been a part of an up and down weekend.
Black Canyon 100k – Mayer, Arizona
iRunFar dropped an even bigger race recap earlier. The race was each a Golden Ticket race for the Western States 100 and a part of the first-year World Path Majors. The highest three finishers all earned entry to the 2024 Western States 100.
Shock snow pressured a delayed begin, however then Hayden Hawks got here again from a 2023 damage to win in a brand new course report time, and Rachel Drake stepped up in distance to run well beyond a deep girls’s subject. After that, I’m shook! Each the boys’s and girls’s podium and high 10 lists featured some bracket busters.
A cold begin to the 2024 Black Canyon 100k. Picture: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Pictures
Males
Hayden Hawks dropped from the Western States 100 in June 2023 with damage and hadn’t raced since. If he had any questions on his post-surgery comeback, he obtained his solutions right here. Hawks gained the race in 7:30. That’s two minutes higher than Anthony Costales’s 2023 successful time, and 25 minutes quicker than Hawks’s personal 2020 successful time.
Second-place Jupiter Carera Casas (Mexico) was out of this world in 7:39 and Chris Myers had a breakout run in 7:43 for third. That’s a giant step up for each, however Carera Casas was nationwide class on the monitor in Mexico a decade in the past. He’s run as quick as 29:58 for 10,000 meters, and Myers had a number of up and up podium finishes final 12 months.
We’re going to run outcomes 20 down, after which choose up some extra acquainted names too to attempt to actually see how the deep subject performed.
Hayden Hawks on his strategy to successful the 2024 Black Canyon 100k. Picture: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Pictures
The total males’s high 20 was:
1 – Hayden Hawks – 7:30
2 – Jupiter Carera Casas (Mexico) – 7:39
3 – Chris Myers – 7:43
4 – Craig Hunt – 7:46
5 – Stephen Kersh – 7:47
6 – Tracen Knopp – 7:48
7 – Eric LiPuma – 7:48
8 – Gabriel Kline – 7:51
9 – Nate Jewkes – 8:03
10 – Hans Troyer – 8:03
11 – Tim Tollefson – 8:06
12 – Ferdinand Airault (France) – 8:10
13 – Noah Dusseau – 8:16
14 – Rod Farvard – 8:19
15 – Timothy Reed – 8:27
16 – Jeffrey Stern – 8:29
17 – William Conner – 8:29
18 – Hector Rodriguez Barragan (Mexico) – 8:30
19 – Matthew Seidel – 8:37
20 – Canyon Woodward – 8:44
After which the opposite acquainted names highlighted in pre-race previews:
21 – Jon Rea – 8:45
25 – Cole Watson – 8:50
26 – Ryan Montgomery – 8:52
30 – Andrew Bumbalough – 9:12
41 – Mark Hammond – 9:56
42 – Calum Neff (Canada) – 9:57
47 – Jared Hazen – 10:13
Ryan Montgomery identifies as non-binary, however competes within the males’s race.
Drops included JP Giblin, Adam Merry, and Pei-Quan You (China).
Though entered, Justin Grunewald and Rajpaul Pannu didn’t begin the race. Grunewald is on the beginning record for subsequent weekend’s Tarawera by UTMB 100k and Pannu is registered for subsequent weekend’s Jackpot 100 Mile race.
Ladies
Rachel Drake chased a quick begin and outran the remainder of the ladies late with an 8:47 successful time. That’s simply two minutes again of Keely Henninger’s 2023 successful time. Drake’s most likely greatest recognized for her latest shorter course success, however dang, she simply doesn’t ever have a foul race. And additional again at longer distances, Drake was seventh on the 2019 CCC race too.
Becca Windell and Lauren Puretz got here in subsequent at 8:52 and 9:06. Windell gained the 2021 Bear 100 Mile and Puretz was eighth on the 2022 Javelina 100 Mile.
Rachel Drake on her strategy to successful the 2024 Black Canyon 100k. Picture: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Pictures
As with the boys’s race, the remainder of the highest 10 had some newcomers too.
1 – Rachel Drake – 8:47
2 – Becca Windell – 8:52
3 – Lauren Puretz – 9:06
4 – Jenna Bensko – 9:11
5 – Kathryn Drew – 9:15
6 – Geneviève Asselin-Demers (Canada) – 9:17
7 – Tara Dower – 9:19
8 – Anna McKenna (Australia) – 9:28
9 – Riley Brady – 9:33
10 – Marci Klimek – 9:41
11 – Arden Younger (Canada) – 9:46
12 – Corinne Shalvoy – 9:52
13 – Heather Jackson – 9:56
14 – Lucie Hanes – 9:58
15 – Shea Aquilano – 10:24
16 – Amanda Nelson – 10:24
17 – Amy Cameron – 10:28
18 – Leah Ling – 10:46
19 – Kristen Schindler – 10:51
20 – Mariya Nikolova (Bulgaria) – 10:52
Riley Brady identifies as non-binary, however competes within the girls’s race.
Different runners highlighted within the pre-race previews included:
21 – Jacquie Mannhard – 10:55
22 – Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) – 10:59
23 – Cat Bradley – 11:10
Drops included Allison Baca, Sarah Biehl, EmKay Sullivan, and Rachel Tomajczyk.
Though entered, Anna Mae Flynn, Anna Kacius, Anne-Marie Madden (Canada), and Kat Brief (Canada) didn’t begin the race.
The subsequent Western States 100 Golden Ticket race is the April 27 Canyons by UTMB 100k in California, and the subsequent World Path Majors occasion is the February 24 Transgrancanaria 126k race in Spain.
Black Canyon 60k – Mayer, Arizona
The race occurred a day after the Black Canyon 100k and it was all Hemming and no hawing. Eli Hemming led from the begin to end the 60k (37 miles) in 4:06. That’s a brand new course report and was manner up on everybody else. Brad Miles was second in 4:35 and Brett Hornig was third in 4:41.
Elena Horton beat out a robust girls’s subject with a 4:57 end. That’s barely two minutes behind Mimmi Kotka’s 2023 successful time. Georgia Porter and Keely Henninger chased to second and third in 5:00 and 5:04, respectively.
Extra Races and Runs
Barcelona Half Marathon – Barcelona, Spain
Alex García (Spain) and Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) sprinted it out, each ending in 1:08 because the Twenty first- and Twenty second-place finishers. Garcia was sixth on the 2023 World Mountain Working Championships Up and Down race and Delorenzi was sixth and third, respectively, on the 2023 Pikes Peak Ascent and Mammoth Trailfest 26k. Within the girls’s race, path runner Júlia Font (Spain) was twenty sixth in 1:16. Full outcomes.
The Ranch 50k – Escondido, California
Some 46 finishers have been led by Carl Maclean and Amelia Valinsky-Fillipow in 4:28 and 5:37. Full outcomes.
Pemberton Path 50k – Fountain Hills, Arizona
The longtime race noticed 39 finishers fronted by Benjamin Prepare dinner and Natalie Horn in 3:32 and 4:11. Full outcomes.
Rocky 50 – Huntsville, Texas
Every week after the 100-mile race, the 50-mile and 50k races have been again at Huntsville State Park. Zach Bitter and Nicole Bitter gained the 50 miler in 6:59 and seven:40, and 50k leaders Matt Smith and Maria Quintana completed in 4:18 and 5:19. Full outcomes.
U.S. Nationwide Showshoe Championships – Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Sadly, there wasn’t sufficient snow on this U.S. Higher Midwest location within the coronary heart of winter to put on snowshoes. In Saturday’s 10k race, Morgan Elliott and Laurel Moyer gained in 36:26 and 42:37. Full outcomes.
Mill Stone 50k – Fort Mill, South Carolina
Working on a three-loop course, Drew Marshall set a brand new course report in 3:26, and Louise Hindal Acer gained the ladies’s race in 4:54. Full outcomes.
Subsequent Weekend – Tarawera by UTMB – Rotorua, New Zealand
The 2023 race winner Daniel Jones (New Zealand) returns as the boys’s 100k favourite. His closest problem might come from Individuals Justin Grunewald and Sage Canaday. Sam McCutcheon (New Zealand), on the entrants record and fourth right here in 2023, says he gained’t begin resulting from sickness. Ruth Croft (New Zealand) is a heavy favourite within the girls’s race. Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) is on the entrants record, however has reportedly dropped all the way down to the 50k race. Fielder was sixth within the 2022 Golden Path World Sequence.
Within the 100-mile contest, Adrian MacDonald (U.S.) might develop into the second consecutive American man to win at Tarawera over 100 miles, and Naomi Model (South Africa) seems to be to be the ladies’s high contender. Jo Zakrzewski (U.Ok., lives in Australia) may additionally function within the girls’s 100-mile race.
[Jo Zakrzewski is currently serving a one-year ban from racing events sanctioned by U.K. Athletics for using a car in the 2023 Manchester To Liverpool Ultra 50 Mile, but is still permitted to race in other jurisdictions.]
A report variety of starters are anticipated for the fifteenth version of the Tarawera Extremely, happening from 17 to 18 February, 2024. Picture: Cameron McKenzie
Subsequent Weekend – Jackpot Ultras – Henderson, Nevada
The USATF 100-Mile Street Nationwide Championships can be run as a standalone race on Friday, February 16, separate from the race’s important 100-mile contest. There’s a $4,000 prize purse with $1,200 going to every of the winners.
The 2023 winner Jonah Backstrom can be again. He ran 14:11 final 12 months. He’ll be challenged by Rajpaul Pannu, who ran 5:02 on the Tunnel Hill 50 Mile race in November 2023.
Two-time Badwater 135 Mile winner Ashley Paulson is on the beginning record, however her social media is pointing to the Purple Mountain 50k in three weeks as a substitute. If racing although, she’s a heavy favourite within the girls’s group.
[Ashley Paulson served a six-month doping sanction, in 2015 and 2016, due to a doping violation in a triathlon for a positive test for ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).]
Marathon World File-Holder Kelvin Kiptum Passes Away at Age 24
Tragic information rocked street working this weekend. Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum (Kenya) and his coach Gervais Hakizimana (Rwanda) each died in a single automobile accident in Kenya on Sunday, February 11. A 3rd passenger was transported to the hospital with accidents. Kiptum, age 24, set the marathon world report with an unbelievable 2:00:35 run on the October 2023 Chicago Marathon. Hakizimana was 37 years previous. iRunFar affords its condolences to the household and pals of Kiptum and Hakizimana.
Name for Feedback
- Pals and lovers, Valentine’s Day is arising this week. It’s the one time per 12 months that I can throw it again to 2021’s “Catching Up With Elisabet Barnes” chat.
- What else have you ever to report from this week in working, close to or far afield?
