It’s tax day within the U.S. Whether or not you need to pay up or are ready on a refund, possibly some diversified geography like Desert RATS, Gorge Waterfalls, and Two Oceans can carry some operating enjoyable to the day.
Desert RATS Path Working Pageant by UTMB – Fruita, Colorado
The occasion hosted 4 totally different race distances, all on excessive desert trails over the Colorado River in far western Colorado.
100k
The 100-kilometer race ran as two laps on a flat course that totaled simply 6,643 ft of elevation achieve. As a consequence of climate, final yr’s inaugural yr 100k was modified to only half that distance.
Ladies’s winner Elena Ormon was means out entrance in 11:33, almost two hours higher than the following runner. Carrie Koso and Dana Mihalcea (Romania) had been second and third in 13:30 and 13:59, respectively.
Solely the primary three males completed beneath 10 hours. Rajpaul Pannu was victorious in 9:19. Zach Hauer got here subsequent in 9:28, and Julien Chorier (France) was third in 9:45.
Elena Ormon profitable the 2024 Desert Rats 100k. Picture: UTMB
50k
Helen Mino Faukner led the ladies with a fast 4:14 end. Allison Baca was second in 4:26, and Karis Scroggs was third to the rostrum in 4:56.
Males’s winner Justin Grunewald outdueled Matthew Vira to the end in 3:40. Vira was simply over a minute again in 3:42, and Jacob Banta was third in 3:57.
Justin Grunewald profitable the 2024 Desert Rats 50k. Picture: UTMB
Gorge Waterfalls – Cascade Locks, Oregon
The three-day occasion began on Friday, and we’ll share the races in time order. The 100k ran out and again and the 50k was largely a point-to-point run.
30k
Rachel Drake gained the Friday ladies’s race in 2:17, virtually two minutes higher than Bailey Kowalczyk’s 2023 course file. Drake’s been on hearth this yr. She gained the Hong Kong “The Triple” 33k in January and the Black Canyon 100k in March and can make her 100-mile debut in June on the Western States 100. Hannah Allgood was second in 2:20 and Claire DeVoe was third in 2:22, respectively.
Males’s winner Matt Daniels ripped by the course in 1:55. Similar to ladies’s winner Drake, he’s been lively this yr too. Daniels was third on the Huge Alta 50k in February and second on the Chuckanut 50k in March. Daniels’ time was a brand new course file too. Final yr’s winner, and former course file holder, Liam Meirow was second in 2:02, which was three minutes higher than he ran final yr. Third-place Andrew Rylaarsdam got here by in 2:04.
100k
Lotti Brinks got here from behind to win the ladies’s race in 9:53. That’s 17 minutes higher than her second-place run final yr. Brinks is subsequent racing June’s Western States 100. Lengthy-time chief Ailsa MacDonald (Canada) settled for second in 10:01, and Kristina Randrup was third in 10:14.
Entrance two males Adam Loomis and Elliot Cardin (Canada) put an enormous hole on the lads’s subject. Loomis gained in 8:44 and Cardin was second in 8:58, and everybody else was fairly a methods again. Andrew Simpson was the third males’s finisher in 9:42.
50k
The 50k race closed out the weekend on Sunday.
Ladies’s winner Sarah Biehl raced by the postcard-worthy course in 4:26. Biehl has the Might Quad Rock 50 Mile and the September Mammoth Trailfest 50k on schedule up to now, later this yr. Tara Fraga charged late to leap into second with a 4:37 end and Lauren Puretz was third in 4:38.
Chris Myers rolled to a fast 3:51 end for the lads’s win. That was seven minutes higher than Matt Daniels’ 2023 profitable time. Dylan Humberger was second in 4:02 and Jared Forman raced to a third-place 4:07 end.
Two Oceans Marathon – Cape City, South Africa
The race dates again to 1970 and now has some 11,000 runners on its 56k course. That’s almost 35 miles for what’s nicknamed “the world’s most lovely marathon.”
Ladies
5 stars for Gerda Steyn (South Africa). She gained the ladies’s race for the fifth straight yr. This streak dates again to 2018 and accounts for the canceled 2020 version of the race. Steyn ran 3:26 and it was a brand new course file, simply over two minutes higher than her 2023 profitable time. Irvette van Zyl (South Africa), a three-time Olympic marathoner, almost eclipsed the outdated course greatest too. She was second in 3:29. Loveness Madziva (Zimbabwe) ran 3:38 for third.
Males
Simply 28 seconds separated males’s leaders Onalenna Khonkhobe (South Africa) and Lloyd Bosman (South Africa). The pair each completed in 3:09 with Khonkhobe profitable the race. Third-place Givemore Mudzinganyama (Zimbabwe), the race’s defending champion, was second in 3:11.
Extra Races and Runs
The North Face 100k — Moganshan, China
Fu-Li Luo and Pei-Quan You gained the ladies’s and males’s 100k races, respectively, in 15:06 and 10:47, and 50k winners Yu–Lam Cho and Jia-Sheng Shen completed in 6:05 and 4:31 to respectively win the ladies’s and males’s occasions. Full outcomes.
Masters Skyrunning World Championships – Vouzela, Portugal
The occasion was held as a part of the Zela Extremely Marathon. Championships occasions included a 55k race that gained 3,600 meters of elevation achieve and a 37k SkyRace totaling 2,500 meters of climbing. Sofia Beizel (Russia) for the ladies and Pere Aurell (Spain) for the lads gained the lengthy race in 7:07 and 5:48. Cristina Ramirez (Spain) completed one second higher than Anna Strakova (Czech Republic) for the ladies’s crown on the 37k course, each in 4:28, and Martin Arnejo (Spain) was first man in 3:40. Full outcomes.
Anna Strakova climbing to the highest on the 2024 Skymasters World Championships 37k. Picture: Damiano Benedetto Picture
Diez Vista 50k – Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
The Coast Mountain Path Working race takes in West Coast rainforest trails round Buntzen Lake. Race winners Sarah James and Marcus Ribi completed in 4:50 and three:50. Full outcomes.
The 2024 Diez Vista 50k getting underway. Picture: Scott Robarts
Lake Sonoma – Healdsburg, California
Solely 33 seconds separated ladies’s winner Lindsay Allison and runner-up Anna Fisher. The 2 each completed in 8:44. Francesco Puppi (Italy) has been on a U.S. tour, however his with-arms-wide-open end has him prepared for the Creed summer time tour too. Puppi gained the lads’s race in 6:30 and was fully solo, 78 minutes forward of the following runner. 50-mile outcomes.
Francesco Puppi profitable the 2024 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile. Picture: John Medinger
Within the marathon race, Brittany Charboneau and Rod Farvard gained large in 3:41 and three:14, for the ladies’s and males’s respective wins. The leaders had been 24 and 9 minutes forward of their chasers, respectively. Marathon outcomes.
The feminine-only half marathon noticed Ruby Lindquist win the race in 1:48, over 24 minutes quicker than anybody else. The race programs all gave the impression to be particularly muddy. Half marathon outcomes.
Whiskey Basin Path Runs – Prescott, Arizona
Emily Kratz and Nick Coury gained the 91k ladies’s and males’s races in 10:54 and seven:41, and 60k ladies’s chief Stephanie Rosebaugh and males’s chief Ethan Koza completed in 5:38 and 4:16. Full outcomes.
Zion Ultras – Virgin, Utah
A small 100-mile subject was fronted by Nicole Thomas and Jonathan Kuplack in 22:29 and 18:42 for the ladies’s and males’s wins. Joanna Brewer (Canada) and Brady Goreski (Canada) gained the 100k in 12:12 and 10:40, to win the ladies’s and males’s races. Full outcomes.
Rattler Path Race 50k – Colorado Springs, Colorado
Race champs Brianna Williams for the ladies and Mark Gaudet for the lads got here by in 6:04 and 4:26. Full outcomes.
Lake McMurtry Path Run – Stillwater, Oklahoma
Leeann Reed and Jason Downing gained the 50k races in 5:01 and 4:14. Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Zumbro 100 Mile – Theilman, Minnesota
The races had been on a 17-mile loop inside the Zumbro River Bottoms Administration space in Minnesota’s Bluff Nation. The 100-mile winners Andie Bennett and Michael Asmus completed in 30:33 and 22:12, and Kellee Brown and Scott Weispfennig led the 50 miler in 10:18 and eight:38. Full outcomes.
Fall Creek Falls 50k – Spencer, Tennessee
The state park course exhibits off its namesake 256-foot waterfall. Sarah Tarr and Jason Bailey had been victorious for the ladies and men in 5:29 and 4:20. Full outcomes.
Leatherwood 50k – Ferguson, North Carolina
Michelle Grey and Jason Willard led a small subject of 13 finishers in 6:40 and 6:16. Full outcomes.
Mountains to Sea Problem 50k – Raleigh, North Carolina
Makenna Pallozzi and Nathan Perry had been tops in 5:25 and 4:07. The Fifteenth-year race adopted the Mountains to Sea Path by Falls Lake. Full outcomes.
Singletrack Maniac 50k – Williamsburg, Virginia
Erin Davis gained the ladies’s race in 5:21 and Patrick Wachter scored a brand new males’s course file in 3:42. Wachter was over an hour higher than second place, and Davis almost was too. Full outcomes.
BAA 5k – Boston, Massachusetts
The race is a lead-in to the Boston Marathon. In opposition to a world subject, 2022 U.S. Mountain Working Staff member Lauren Gregory was ninth American in 15:56. Full outcomes.
Ouachita Path 50 Mile – Little Rock, Arkansas
Sarah Mercer and Matt Pruitt had been champs in 9:11 and eight:16. It was the race’s thirty third yr. Full outcomes.
Sarah Mercer tackling among the technical terrain en path to profitable the 2024 Ouachita Path 50 Mile. Picture: Debbie Rigsby