Blairsville, Belgrade, and the Buffalo Run are among the many week’s hotspots. We’ve acquired path operating, ultrarunning, and some different bits and items of the final week in operating served up contemporary this Monday. And, in fact, glad April Fools’ Day, to those that have fun!
Georgia Loss of life Race – Blairsville, Georgia
The Run Bum Excursions race goes 74 miles level to level towards a end at Amicalola Falls State Park. It’s a difficult course and on prime of that, runners should carry a railroad spike and drop it right into a coffin on the end.
Girls
Shannon Wheeler DeBoef was a giant winner within the girls’s race at 16:50. Wheeler DeBoef is a prolific racer within the U.S. Southeast and was fourth right here again in 2020.
Second- and third-place Flavie Dokken and Sally Bray completed in 17:48 and 17:52.
Shannon Wheeler DeBoef throwing a nail within the coffin to win the 2024 Georgia Loss of life Race. Picture: Nick Morgan
Males
Brendan Connell seemed demise within the eye, after which ran 13:25. That was over an hour higher than everybody else. Connell received final 12 months’s Arkansas Traveller 100 Mile too.
Lukas Burrer (Germany) was second in 14:40, and Tanner Honan dipped beneath the 15-hour mark with a 14:56 third-place end.
Brendan Connell on his method to successful the 2024 Georgia Loss of life Race. Picture: Nick Morgan
Antelope Island Buffalo Run – Syracuse, Utah
The Friday to Saturday occasion occurred on Antelope Island, the most important of 10 islands contained in the Nice Salt Lake. The island is finest recognized for its herd of some 550 to 700 buffalo.
100 Mile
Hollie Pierce led the ladies in 26:27, and Leslie Cross and Ashley Forshey got here subsequent in 27:00 and 27:37, respectively.
Males’s winner Luke Metzger completed the two-loop course in 18:24. Second-place Justin Alpaugh ran 18:44 and Karl Meltzer was third in 19:10. Meltzer’s march to at least one hundred 100-mile finishes continues. This was #83. His 14:34 course document from 2013 nonetheless stands right here, too.
50 Mile
The highest three, however solely the highest three, dipped beneath 9 hours within the girls’s race. Maria Johnstone was victorious in 8:33, lower than two minutes higher than second-place Rhandi Orme and her 8:35 run. Stacey Armijo was third in 8:58.
Bear 100 Mile course-record holder Zack Garner led everybody in 6:30. Anthony Jacobs was second in 6:42 and Singletrack podcast ace Finn Melanson was third in 7:03.
50k
It took a sub-5 hour run to get on the ladies’s 50k podium. Alexis Crellin was out entrance in 4:38, and Marie Younger and Brooke Bullington adopted in 4:45 and 4:55.
He’s risen! Adam Peterman’s on the comeback path. Peterman missed all of 2023 with damage and got here again sturdy with a 3:27 win and course document. Second-place Devin Pancake waffled just a bit off the lead tempo towards a 3:41 end. A former Utah State runner, Pancake was in his first go on the 50k distance. He appears to be like to carry a 4:00:36 mile finest courting to 2022. Loren Davis was third in 4:16.
Extra Races and Runs
World Athletics Cross Nation Championships – Belgrade, Serbia
The occasion occurred on a flat course alongside the Danube River, spiced up with obstacles like hay bales and a mud pit. Pre-race temperatures had been forecast to succeed in an unseasonably heat 81 levels Fahrenheit. Each the men and women raced a 10-kilometer course, and a pair path runners and ultrarunners had been amongst the sphere.
Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet received the ladies’s open race in 31:05, besting fellow countrywomen Lilian Kasait Rengeruk and Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi by all of three and 4 seconds respectively! Certainly, Kenyan girls swept the primary 5 positions from cross-country perfection. Allie Ostrander (U.S.) was thirtieth, second American, in 34:11. (In 2023, Ostrander was suspended for 4 months after testing optimistic for canrenone, a metabolite of spironolactone, after it was decided that she mistakenly took the drug with out first acquiring a World Anti-Doping Company Therapeutic Use Exemption.)
What future path operating star is perhaps pictured right here firstly of the ladies’s beneath 20 race on the 2024 World Athletics World Cross Nation Championships? Picture: Adam Nurkiewicz for World Athletics
The open males’s race noticed a mixture of East African international locations on the rostrum with Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda successful in 28:09, forward of Berihu Aregawi of Ethiopia and Benson Kiplangat of Kenya, who missed the win by all of three and 5 seconds every. The 2023 Speedgoat by UTMB 50k winner Christian Allen (U.S.) was thirty seventh in 29:54 and 2023 Western States 100 winner Tom Evans (U.Okay.) stepped down in distance for a Forty ninth-place end in 30:16.
Picture: Adam Nurkiewicz for World Athletics
Verticale Workforce Salomon – Corte, France
The Salomon crew dropped into Corsica as a part of their crew camp and had an uphill race. Sophia Laukli (U.S.) and Thibaut Baronian (France) had been the primary up in 47:09 and 40:29. Full outcomes.
Sydney Path Marathon – Citadel Hill, Australia
The race occurred on trails contained in the Bidjigal Reserve. Race victors Stephanie Auston and Luke Jeffrey completed the monitor in 3:41 and three:24, respectively. Full outcomes.
Stanford Invite – Palo Alto, California
Path sophomore Anna Gibson ran 16:09 for a Seventeenth-place end within the meet’s quickest 5,000-meter warmth. Full outcomes.
Redwood Path Spring 50k – Oakland, California
Race winners Kimberly Neely and Cliff Lentz ran 4:35 and 4:29, respectively. Full outcomes.
Rattlesnake Dick 50k – Cool, California
The primary-year race celebrated the reminiscence of outlaw Richard Barter (aka Rattlesnake Dick). Hailey Chiasson and Cole Watson received in 6:27 and 4:04. Full outcomes.
Chicago Lakefront 50k – Chicago, Illinois
Having received the race earlier than, Rachel Burke and Nolan McKenna ran alongside Lake Michigan in 4:04 and a pair of:58 to win the springtime version. McKenna was simply over a minute off a course document that’s stood since 2001 and solely the second individual to interrupt 3 hours on the course. Full outcomes.
Rachel Burke successful the 2024 Chicago Lakefront 50k. Picture: Michelle Thom/RunRace.internet
Bourbon Nation 50k – Shepherdsville, Kentucky
Wow, 95% of the world’s bourbon is produced in Kentucky. It was the race’s inaugural operating and Tavi Wallace and Colin Oliver received in 5:42 and 4:50. Full outcomes.
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