Veteran ultrarunner Rob Krar nabbed second place on the Leadville Path Marathon in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, main a pack of 4 Canadians who cracked the highest 12 within the 42.2-km race. The 46-year-old Krar, who hails from Hamilton, Ont., crossed the end line in 3:42:23, incomes him a spot on the rostrum between Scott Spillman of Denver, who received the marathon in 3:36:52, and Frank Pipp of Longmont, Colo., who positioned third with 3:45:02.
The paths of Leadville are acquainted terrain for Krar, who received the Leadville Path 100—the previous mining city’s flagship 100-mile race—in 2014 (16:09:32) and 2018 (15:51:57). Krar, now primarily based in Flagstaff, Ariz., can also be a three-time winner of the Western States 100-mile endurance run, with consecutive wins from 2013 to 2015.
His effort at Saturday’s marathon topped off a number of sturdy performances by Canadians on the Leadville course. Molly Hurford of Collingwood, Ont., ran 4:38:53 to complete eighth within the feminine class. (The Canadian Working contributor positioned second within the ladies’s 80K race eventually yr’s Quebec Mega Path (11:51:56), and claimed prime honours—within the ladies’s class and general—eventually yr’s Outlaw 100 Oklahoma ( 23:53:42). Topping the ladies’s podium at Leadville this yr have been Ellie Pell of Boulder (4:02:14), Emma Sjolund of Leadville (4:19:09) and Christina Bauer of Flagstaff (4:24:06).
Two different Canadians barely missed squeezing into the highest 10. Reid Burrows of Grand Bay-Westfield, N.B., winner of final yr’s 50K Sulphur Springs path race, ran 3:54:03 to complete eleventh within the males’s class. Madeline Wighardt of Ancaster, Ont., who positioned second within the ladies’s class eventually yr’s Quebec Mega Path 110K, completed twelfth within the ladies’s class with 4:46:13.
Lonnie Clark of Colorado Springs, Colo. (5:36:51) and Mads Holm Hansen of Denmark (7:18:24) have been the finishers within the marathon’s non-binary class.
Taking prime spots within the Leadville Heavy Half—a course of simply over 25 km—have been Jeff Cuno of Albuquerque, N.M. (2:02:20), Devin Vennard of Leadville (2:03:30) and Ethan Goldman of Denver (2:20:10). The highest three ladies have been Ali Kallner of Denver (2:13:53), Kylah Ricks of Colorado Springs (2:19:54) and Hannah Campbell of Lakewood, Colo. Jessi Friedman of Leadville was the finisher within the non-binary class (3:57:44).
Saturday’s races drew round 1,500 runners representing six international locations and all 50 U.S. states. The marathon and Heavy Half occasions usually take runners as much as round 4,018 metres at Mosquito Move, the very best steady cross in america. Regardless of organizers’ efforts to clear Mosquito Move, on account of Leadville’s colder spring that introduced snow and freezing temperatures, each programs have been altered to show round barely under the summit. Further mileage was added elsewhere to keep up the course distances.
