June 24, 2024 – iRunFar

Minotaur and Mercantour, Manitou, and Mauritius.

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Damaged Arrow Skyrace – Olympic Valley, California

Vertical Okay

The Friday morning race went up 3,000 toes over three miles, ending on the prime of 9,000-foot Washeshu Peak. It was the yr’s first World Mountain Operating Affiliation (WMRA) World Cup race.

Girls

Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) is crushing this yr. She’s the present WMRA #1 and in April 2024 received the yr’s second Golden Path World Collection race. And she or he dominated this race too. Muthoni Njeru was practically two minutes forward of everybody else with a forty five:29 end. Attainable course adjustments apart, that’s 11 seconds higher than Morgan Arritola’s 2019 occasion file.

The 2023 winner Anna Gibson got here again to complete second in 47:25. And the 2022 and 2021 winner Allie McLaughlin got here again to complete third in 47:40.

The total prime 10 was:

1. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 45:29
2. Anna Gibson – 47:25
3. Allie McLaughlin – 47:40
4. Hali Hafeman – 48:40
5. Jessica Brazeau – 48:49
6. Rachel Tomajczyk – 49:59
7. Abby Lock – 50:16
8. Tabor Hemming – 50:24
9. Jade Belzberg – 50:27
10. Ellyse Tingelstad – 50:40

Males

Earlier than this yr the occasion file was 41:16. The entire prime 15 beat that mark this yr.

The 2023 World Mountain Operating Uphill champion Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) led the way in which to the highest in 36:11, and it wasn’t actually shut.

Jim Walmsley was the most effective of the remaining. Whether or not to problem Kipngeno or to simply get a tune-up for subsequent week’s Western States 100, Walmsley stepped means down in distance and went up second in 37:39.

Third-place Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau pushed exhausting to complete in 37:53.

The entire prime 10 was:

1. Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 36:11
2. Jim Walmsley – 37:39
3. Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau – 37:53
4. Christian Allen – 37:58
5. Eli Hemming – 38:39
6. Remi Leroux (Canada) – 39:15
7. Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) – 39:19
8. Ryan Becker – 39:23
9. Cam Smith – 49:55
10. Darren Thomas – 40:18

Full outcomes.

46k

The 2-loop race on Saturday went for 26.4 miles with 9,100 toes of climbing.

Girls

Toni McCann (South Africa, residing in France) is on the up and up too. She received final yr’s OCC race, final yr’s Extremely-Path Cape City 55k, and was unmatched on the entrance of the ladies’s subject right here. She completed in 4:52, and as with the Vertical Okay there’s the potential for various programs, however McCann’s mark is 2 minutes again of what Helen Mino Faukner ran to win final yr.

Second- and third-place Klaire Rhodes and Amanda Basham completed in 5:07 and 5:16, respectively.

The ladies’s prime 10 was:

1. Toni McCann (South Africa, residing in France) – 4:52
2. Klaire Rhodes – 5:07
3. Amanda Basham – 5:16
4. Lindsay Allison – 5:21
5. Sarah Guhl – 5:23
6. Emilie Mann (Canada) – 5:34
7. Heather Henry (Canada) – 5:35
8. Barrett Grey – 5:38
9. Carmen Bango – 5:47
10. Lauren Williams – 5:53

Males

In 2022 at Damaged Arrow, David Sinclair was twelfth within the Vertical Okay race and received the 46k. And in 2024 at Damaged Arrow, David Sinclair was twelfth within the Vertical Okay race and received the 46k.

Sinclair dropped his final hanger-on, Cam Smith, and cruised to the end with a giant lead. The course has probably modified a bit, however his 4:00 end this yr was 22 minutes higher than his personal 2022 profitable time.

Jeff Mogavero and Adam Peterman moved up on the second lap, and Mogavero outgunned Peterman for second. He was nearly a minute higher in 4:11.

The lads’s prime 10 was:

1. David Sinclair – 4:01
2. Jeff Mogavero – 4:11
3. Adam Peterman – 4:12
4. Cam Smith – 4:21
5. Guang-Fu Meng (China) – 4:27
6. Cole Campbell – 4:29
7. Nick Handel – 4:36
8. Gregory Krathwohl – 4:37
9. Gordon Gianniny – 4:41
10. Ja Shua Ried – 4:42

Full outcomes.

23k

Sunday’s race ran 13.5 miles on a single loop course that put in 4,700 toes of achieve. It too was a WMRA World Cup contest. For extra particulars than laid out under, you possibly can learn iRunFar’s full have a look at the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k.

Girls

Joyce Muthoni Njeru dominated the ladies’s race, however this one was shut on the end. Muthoni’s profitable margin was simply 37 seconds. She completed in 2:11 and Jade Belzburg rocketed up the ranks with a 2:12 second-place run. Tabor Hemming was third in 2:13.

The highest-10 girls had been:

1. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 2:11
2. Jade Belzburg – 2:12
3. Tabor Hemming – 2:13
4. Allie McLaughlin – 2:14
5. Dani Moreno – 2:17
6. Rachel Tomajczyk – 2:21
7. Sydney Petersen – 2:23
8. Abby Lock – 2:24
9. Sarah Carter – 2:26
10. Karley Rempel – 2:30

Males

A lot of the prime finishers had been doubling again from the Vertical Okay on Friday. Patrick Kipngeno jumped to a giant lead early, and Eli Hemming made up time late. Kipngeno received for the second time on the weekend, however the time hole was shorter right here than within the Vertical Okay. Kipngeno completed in 1:45 and Hemming was second in 1:47. The 2023 Sierre-Zinal winner Philemon Ombogo Kiriago was third in 1:50.

The highest-10 males had been:

1. Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 1:45
2. Eli Hemming – 1:47
3. Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) – 1:50
4. Taylor Stack – 1:51
5. Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau – 1:52
6. Hawk Name – 1:54
7. Andrew Douglas (U.Okay.) – 1:54
8. Remi Leroux (Canada) – 1:55
9. Sam Hendry – 1:55
10. Cade Michael – 1:55

Full outcomes.

Minotaur Skyrace – Crowsnest Go, Alberta, Canada

The race was the yr’s eighth Skyrunner World Collection race and went 33k with 2,900 meters of achieve throughout three massive climbs. That’s 20 miles and 9,500 toes.

Emma Cook dinner-Clarke (Canada) received for the second time right here. She dropped Elise Poncet (France) with about 5k to go and set a brand new course file in 4:52. Poncet was second in 4:56, and Karina Carsolio (Mexico) was third in 5:10.

The lads’s race got here all the way down to the ultimate “shoe shredder” descent and Scott Patterson powered previous longtime chief Jackson Cole. Patterson received in 4:08 to Cole’s second-place 4:10. John Luna-Lima was third in 4:18.

Full outcomes.

Skyrace du Mercantour – Saint-Martin-Vésubie, France

This was a part of the Skyrunner World Collection race too. The 30k race packed in 2,150 meters of climbing inside Mercantour Nationwide Park. That’s 18 miles and seven,050 toes.

Ariadna Fenes (Andorra) took the ladies’s race in 3:13. Naiara Irigoyen (Spain) and Holly Wootten (U.Okay.) had been second and third in 3:18 and three:23.

Males’s winner Alain Santamaria (Spain) overtook early chief Ruy Ueda (Japan) late and completed a minute higher. Santamaria ran 2:38 to Ueda’s 2:39. Lorenzo Beltrami (France) was third in 2:41.

Full outcomes.

Extra Races and Runs

Montane Summer season Backbone Race – Pennine Means, U.Okay.

The 268-mile point-to-point race was underway final week and has now wrapped. Sue Straw (U.Okay.) received the ladies’s race in 122:43, and Chris Cope (U.Okay.) received the boys’s race in 79:10. Cope was extremely over 21 hours higher than anybody else. Full outcomes.

Mauritius by UTMB – Mauritius

This is likely to be the small East African island’s first entry into TWIR. It was the race’s first version too, and a few 1,000 runners took half. The occasion’s longest race went practically 84 miles with 17,716 toes of elevation achieve. Race winners Xue-Er Shang (China) and Elias Kadi (France) completed in 26:41 and 16:45. Full outcomes.

Tenderfoot Boogie 50k – Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

North of the border, Julie Gill and Matthew Schneider had been the champs on Squamish’s trails this weekend in 6:08 and 4:43, respectively.

U.S. Olympic Trials – Eugene, Oregon

On Friday, 2022 U.S. Mountain Operating Workforce member Lauren Gregory ran 15:35 for five,000 meters, ending ninth in her warmth and qualifying for the ultimate. Gregory will contest the ultimate tonight, June 24. Additionally on Friday evening, 2023 Mount Washington Highway Race runner-up Sam Chelanga was seventh within the 10,000 meters in 28:04. Full outcomes.

Headwaters Path Runs 56k – Mount Shasta, California 

Mila Opalenik set a brand new girls’s course file in 7:26 and Michael Buyaskas received the boys’s group in 6:32. Full outcomes.

Flagstaff Excessive Large Pine – Flagstaff, Arizona

The occasion’s 53k distance winners had been Angie Hodge-Zickerman and Ethan Koza in 5:15 and three:46. Full outcomes. 

Bears Ear Extremely – Monticello, Utah

Within the 50 miler, Erin Park and Damon Chavez received in 8:40 and seven:34 on a course shortened on account of rain-caused path injury within the previous days. Within the 50k, Madison Andersen and Cal Seneker did it the quickest with 7:09 and 6:42 finishes. Full outcomes.

Ring the Springs – Colorado Springs, Colorado

The Aravaipa Operating race had a number of extremely distances. For 100 miles, it was Taylor Reffett and James Mayuric on the entrance in 27:36 and 24:38. The 100k winners had been Jessica Klein and Nick Care in 15:47 and 11:31. Full outcomes.

Six Days within the Dome – Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Within the six-day race, Megan Eckert totaled an enormous 526 miles. It was the second-best American efficiency ever over six days, and fifth-best girls’s whole globally. David Johnston received the boys’s race with 460 miles. Full outcomes.

Two Hearted Path 50k –  Paradise, Michigan

With cool temperatures, scorching occasions had been run, with each course data falling. Michele Magagna received in 4:28, whereas William Caldwell did in 3:51. Full outcomes.

New River Gorge Path Fest 50k – Fayetteville, West Virginia

Components of the race course had been in New River Gorge Nationwide Park, America’s latest nationwide park. The 50k winners had been HollyAnn Swann and Heath Goshorn in 4:48 and 4:31. Full outcomes.

Manitou’s Revenge 53 Mile – Windham, New York

Regardless of excessive warmth and thunderstorms, course data fell within the Catskill Mountains and within the race’s eleventh yr. Elizabeth McGurk ran away from everybody in 13:15, and Justin Kousky topped the boys in 10:24. Full outcomes (when accessible).

Final Annual Coronary heart of the South Highway Race – Fort Rock, Georgia

This one actually will get the creativeness going, for me. The course was unknown till the day earlier than the occasion and runners got 10.5 days to cowl the 384 miles again to their automobile. Meghan Curley and Addison Hendricks did it the quickest. The 2 completed in 9 days, 11 hours, 47 minutes and in six days, six hours, and 25 minutes. That’s 9:11:47 and 6:06:25. Monitoring.

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That was a number of enjoyable. What popped for you as a standout efficiency on the weekend?