This week and subsequent, the path working focus is in Europe. Austria had a pair of entries to this yr’s column and ascends to the large stage subsequent week for the mixed World Mountain and Path Working Championships in Innsbruck-Stubai. Even so, we deliver you outcomes from all over the world, together with everywhere in the U.S. Completely satisfied Monday!
Hochkönig Skyrace – Maria Alm, Austria
Excessive nation snow pressured an alternate course for the yr’s third Skyrunner World Sequence race. The brand new observe went for 34 kilometers however with 2,900 meters (9,514 toes) of elevation achieve and nonetheless on a really technical route. The race had runners from 30 completely different international locations and it appears to be like prefer it was fairly the scene with a fog machine initially line and a large pretzel among the many winner’s prizes.
Girls
Iris Pessey (France) and Emma Cook dinner-Clarke (Canada) traded the lead early, however by the course excessive level Pessey had asserted herself. She carried a five-minute result in the end in 4:23. Cook dinner-Clarke chased to a 4:29 second-place end, and Guilia Pol (Italy) was lower than a minute again in third at 4:30.
The 2022 general sequence winner Lindsay Webster (Canada) opened her season with a fourth-place 4:32.
Iris Pessey, the 2023 Hochkönig Skyrace girls’s winner. Picture: Brian Sharp Creates
Males
Late entrant Esteban Olivero (France) crushed the downhill to leap from fifth to first. He completed in 3:39, precisely one minute up on second place Gianluca Ghiano (Italy). Shoma Otagiri (Japan) was third in 3:41 and solely 30 seconds behind the runner up. As tightly bunched as that lead group of three was, they have been over eight minutes in entrance of the fourth-place finisher.
The following Skyrunner World Sequence race is the 43k contest at Extremely Skyrunning Madeira in Portugal on June 17.
Esteban Olivero on his strategy to successful the 2023 Hochkönig Skyrace. Picture: Brian Sharp Creates
Extra Races and Runs
Innsbruck Alpine Trailrun Competition – Innsbruck, Austria
Every week earlier than the large World Mountain Working and Path Working World Championships, the host metropolis was already on the paths. Sandra Saitner (Germany) and Dmitry Mityaev (Russia) received the 85k in 12:33 and 9:41. Juliane Robler (Austria) and Janosch Kowalczyk (Germany) championed the 65k at 6:25 and 5:12. And Ekaterina Mityaeva (Russia) and Sven Koch (Germany) led the 42k in 5:50 and 4:54. Full outcomes.
Path du Saint-Jacques by UTMB – Saugues, France
The occasion dates again to 2012 and this yr’s model included three extremely distance races. An enormous discipline of 558 runners began the 126k (78 miles), and on the end it was Maggy Bouisse (France) and Duncan Perrillat (France) in 17:23 and 13:08. Going for 75k (46 miles), Aurélie Paul (France) and Matthieu Simon (France) led the group in 8:11 and seven:12, and at 46k and simply longer than the marathon distance, Mathilde Sagnes (France) and Konstantinos Paradeisopoulos (Greece) received in 3:49 and three:17. Full outcomes.
Swiss Canyon Path – Couvet, Switzerland
Similar to in so many large European races, there have been three extremely distance races right here too. Audrey Virgilio (Switzerland) received the 111k (69 miles) in 13:17, alongside males’s winner Francesco Cucco (Italy) and his 11:13 end. Marion Roucher (France) and Antonin Marecaille (France) took the 81k crowns in 10:22 and seven:36, and Karine Travaillaud (France) and Enzo Ratti (France) have been the day’s finest at 51k in 5:07 and three:50, respectively. Full outcomes.
Vashon Island Ultramarathon 50k – Vashon Island, Washington
Vashon Island sits at 37 sq. miles in Puget Sound and Kristi Williams and Jeffrey Barrington noticed virtually all of it over 50k in 4:15 and three:42. Full outcomes.
Cape Mountain 50k – Florence, Oregon
Abigail Stockamp and Henry Kibit went 5:14 and 5:00 on the prime of the 47-person discipline. Full outcomes.
Spence Mountain Run 50k – Klamath Falls, Oregon
Girls’s winner Kayla Rutland completed in 6:05, however males’s frontrunner Gerad Dean was manner out in entrance of everybody. His 4:39 was over an hour quicker than anybody else within the small group of 16 finishers. Full outcomes.
San Diego 100 Mile – Lake Cuyamaca, California
Michelle Buncke was the ladies’s winner in 22:07, and males’s champ Makai Clemons set a brand new course document in 16:27. Full outcomes (when obtainable).
North Fork 50/50 – Pine, Colorado
Within the Buffalo Creek space about an hour southwest of Denver, Brianna Williams and Eric Holmstead have been victorious over 50 miles in 11:08 and eight:04, and Colleen Noonan and Justin Snair received the 50k in 5:05 and 4:23. Full outcomes.
Texas Path Working Competition – Spicewood, Texas
Camille Herron was the ladies’s winner of the path marathon in 3:49. Males’s winner and was Zach Ricks completed in 4:30. Full outcomes.
Mohican 100 Mile – Loudonville, Ohio
Christine Partain and James Solomon held day-long leads at Ohio’s longtime 100 miler. The 2 completed the four-lap race in 25:07 and 17:02. Full outcomes.
World’s Finish Ultramarathons – Forksville, Pennsylvania
There are large waterfalls and greater views at World’s Finish State Park and in Pennsylvania’s Limitless Mountains. Justyna Wilson took in 50 miles of the rugged course in 13:54, solely 41 seconds higher than second-place Jill Dennes. Males’s winner Reagan McCoy completed in 11:46. The 50k leaders Lisa Fisher and Justin Scheid ran 6:23 and 5:21, respectively. Full outcomes.
Previous Dominion 100 Mile – Woodstock, Virginia
The longtime 100-mile race dates clear again to 1979. Meg Landymore and Mitch Ables received this yr’s run in 19:36 and 18:34. Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Capital Yard Extremely – Lorton, Virginia
This one went all of final weekend and into Tuesday, Could 30, earlier than Jennifer Russo missed a time cutoff and Scott Snell was declared the race winner. Snell totaled 312.50 miles over 75 hours, and Russo went one hour and one lap fewer with 308.33 miles. Russo’s consequence was the furthest a girl’s ever run in a yard race. The 2 completed first and second in 2022 right here too when Snell totaled 254.15 miles and Russo ran 250.0 miles. Full outcomes.
Connecticut Extremely Traverse – Southwick, Massachusetts
A bunch of 12 made it 112 miles throughout Connecticut. Jessica Crandall and Jacques Saarbach set new occasion information at 29:46 and 25:40. Full outcomes.
Conflict Eagle Path Working Competition – Rogers, Arkansas
Run at Hobbs State Park and on Osage, Choctaw, Quawpaw, and Cherokee ancestral land, the race dates again to 2006. This yr’s 50k winners have been Meghan Lewis and Thomas Graham in 4:59 and 4:05, respectively. Full outcomes.
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The second-ever mixed World Mountain and Path Working Championships are subsequent week in Austria, and iRunFar’s going to be there. Among the U.S. groups have shuffled attributable to harm, however I’m anticipating these races and this protection. The males’s and girls’s 80k previews are up already.
