It was an all-star weekend. The Golden Path World Sequence kicked off, the Marathon des Sables stage race completed up, and the USATF 100k Street Nationwide Championships went spherical and spherical. That’s sufficient for even the worst case of the Mondays.
Kobe Path – Kobe, Japan
Finest recognized for beef, the paths are actually good in Kobe too. It was the yr’s first Golden Path World Sequence (GTWS) contest and the first-ever GTWS race in Japan. The race was held over a sequence of loops on an particularly technical 21-kilometer course with 1,800 meters of elevation achieve. There have been 160 males’s finishers however solely 36 girls’s finishers.
Males
Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) received the lads’s race in 2:22, simply over a minute higher than second-place Joey Hadorn (Switzerland). It was maybe a little bit of a shock for each Kipngeno and Hadorn. It was thought that Kipngeno could be challenged on the technical course, however he gained the lead on the third of 4 loops and added to the hole on the ultimate loop. Hadorn completed in 2:23. He received the Swiss Cross Nation Championships in early March 2024 and is a world-class orienteer.
Patrick Kipngeno successful the 2024 Kobe Path. Picture: Golden Path Sequence/Kobe Path/Colin Olivero
Third-place Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco), a breakout star in final yr’s finale, completed in 2:28.
The total prime 10 was:
- Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 2:22:17
- Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) – 2:23:26
- Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 2:28:43
- Bartłomiej Przedwojewski (Poland) – 2:28:49
- Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 2:30:45
- Marcin Kubica (Poland) – 2:31:05
- Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) – 2:32:41
- Bogdan Damian (Romania) – 2:32:45
- Cesare Maestri (Italy) – 2:33:40
- Alex Garcia (Spain) – 2:34:56
The highest U.S. finisher was Fifteenth-place Garrett Corcoran in 2:41:13.
Girls
Maude Mathys (Switzerland) returned from a protracted damage and overtook early chief Joyce Njeru (Kenya) within the third of 4 loops. Mathys pulled away from the sphere within the final loop and received the ladies’s race in 2:52. It wasn’t in any respect shut, Mathys was over six minutes higher than everybody else.
Maude Mathys climbing her strategy to victory. Picture: Golden Path Sequence/Kobe Path/Justin Galant
Sara Alonso (Spain) outkicked Theres Leboeuf (Switzerland) for second. Each completed in 2:58 with Alonso 4 seconds in entrance. Early tempo pusher Njeru pale to fourth in 2:59.
[In 2015, Maude Mathys received a warning without suspension from the Disciplinary Chamber for Doping Cases of Swiss Olympic for two positive tests for clomifene (previously clomiphene) after it was determined that she was mistakenly taking the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.]
Removed from residence, Spanish runners impressively took 5 of the highest 10 spots. The total prime 10 was:
- Maude Mathys (Switzerland) – 2:52:08
- Sara Alonso (Spain) – 2:58:34
- Theres LeBoeuf (Switzerland) – 2:58:38
- Joyce Njeru (Kenya) – 2:59:41
- Malen Osa (Spain) – 3:00:01
- Daniela Oemus (Germany) – 3:00:35
- Marta Martinez (Spain) – 3:03:05
- Rosa Lara Feliu (Spain) – 3:04:29
- Takako Takamura (Japan) – 3:05:15
- Julia Font (Spain) – 3:06:21
The highest U.S. finisher was Twelfth-place Allie McLaughlin in 3:06:45.
The following Golden Path World Sequence race is subsequent weekend’s 4 Sisters Mountain Path race in China.
Penyagolosa Trails – Castellón, Spain
The occasion marked 1 / 4 century of racing in far japanese Spain with 2,000 runners however maybe lacked a few of the extra well-known names from latest years.
The 106k race gained 5,560 meters and the 60k went for 3,300 meters. That’s roughly 66 miles with 18,241 ft of achieve and 37 miles and 10,826 ft for the shorter race.
Ramon Recatalá (Spain) and Camille Bruyas (France) took the lengthy course crowns for the women and men in 11:07 and 12:21. Recatalá remarkably received this identical race 12 years earlier, and Bruyas set a brand new course report.
Within the 60k, Jose Angel Fernandez (Spain) and Gemma Arenas (Spain) received in 5:23 and 6:23 for the women and men. Fernandez additionally received final yr’s race. Nevertheless, this yr’s run was shut, with second-place Julen Calvó (Spain) simply lower than three minutes again of Fernandez. Arenas’ win wasn’t assured till the tip both. Runner-up Mar Pastor (Spain) was solely 5 minutes behind.
Gemma Arenas operating her strategy to victory on the 2024 Penyagolosa MIM race. Picture courtesy of race.
Mad Metropolis 100k – Madison, Wisconsin
The occasion was once more host to the USATF 100k Street Nationwide Championships and winners earned an automated spot on the U.S. workforce that can compete on the IAU 100k World Championships in India in December 2024. The race was run on a 10k loop, and the winners pocketed $500 in first-place prize cash.
100k
The highest 5 males all completed beneath seven hours, however nobody might contact Adam Vadeboncoeur. He was a 10-minute winner in 6:37. Second-place Ryan Miller moved up late to complete second in 6:47 and Kris Brown was third in 6:49.
Neringa Kaulinaite took the ladies’s crown in 7:48 and Allison Mercer was second in 7:55. Jessa Victor completed in 8:16 for third.
Neringa Kaulinaite successful the 2024 USATF 100k Street Nationwide Championships. Picture: Lin Gentling
50k
Cristobal Gutierrez and Lindsay Prescott received the accompanying 50k males’s and girls’s races in 3:04 and three:21, respectively.
Marathon des Sables Legendary – Sahara Desert, Morocco
The six-stage, seven-day race lasted 253k (157 miles) throughout the desert. Runners go self-supported, carrying their very own meals and kit, and sleep in race-supplied camps alongside the best way. iRunFar earlier shared the larger race dynamics.
Males
Paul Atreides, Baron Harkonnen, meh. These dunes once more belonged to Rachid El Morabity (Morocco).
The elder El Morabity received the lads’s race for the tenth time, but it surely was nonetheless a comeback of types. In 2023, Rachid El Morabity dropped from the race after taking a three-hour penalty for accepting outdoors help. This yr’s run had some drama too. Rachid was simply third on the race’s lengthy third stage, ending 54 minutes behind youthful brother Mohamed El Morabity (Morocco). Mohamed then completed manner again on the fifth day to cough up his lead. That vaulted Rachid again to the entrance of the race, however remarkably solely 25 seconds in entrance after six days and 20 hours of operating.
Rachid El Morabity completed in 20:42:19 and Mohamed El Morabity was second in 20:42:44.
As shut as the 2 El Morabitys had been, third-place Aziz Yachou (Morocco) was almost proper there too. He completed in 20:44.
Girls
Second on day 5, girls’s winner Aziza El Amrany (Morrocco) was in any other case dominant within the girls’s race. She received 5 of the six phases and totaled 27:06 for a two-hour win. El Amrany was third in 2022 and second in 2023 earlier than ascending to the highest podium spot this yr.
Aziza Raji (Morroco) and Gemma Recreation (U.Okay.) had been second and third in 29:09 and 32:18, respectively. Raji was the race’s 2021 winner.
Extra Races and Runs
Bucharest Worldwide Half Marathon – Bucharest, Romania
Madalina Florea (Romania) missed the beginning of the Golden Path World Sequence to as a substitute win her nation’s half marathon nationwide championships. Florea completed in 1:14:57. Full outcomes.
Routeburn Traditional – Fiordland Nationwide Park, New Zealand
It was the nineteenth version of the 32k journey run. Toby Batchelor was a runaway males’s winner in 2:48, quarter-hour higher than his closest challenger. Sarah Douglas received the ladies’s race in 3:24, in doing so turning into the primary individual to win the occasion 3 times. Full outcomes.
Squak Mountain 50k – Issaquah, Washington
DJ Remi was the primary man in 6:21, however Isabella Poulos was the primary total finisher in 5:44, and likewise the ladies’s race winner. Full outcomes.
G-Bar Ranch Extremely – Mariposa, California
The primary-ever occasion had a 29-mile race with a small area led by Anthony Allopenna for the lads and Beverley Anderson-Abbs for the ladies in 4:36 and 4:53. Full outcomes.
The VUE Path Runs – Sedona, Arizona
Craig Gillis and Alyson Kirk received the 50-mile race in 8:12 and 10:22, and Leif Baradoy and Samantha Candido had been tops within the 34 miler at 6:05 and seven:25, respectively. Full outcomes.
Antelope Canyon X Half Marathon – Lechee Rock, Arizona
Race native Trent Vacation received in 1:38, and Reese Ruland set a brand new girls’s course report in 1:55. Full outcomes.
Spitfire Extremely Path Problem – Menan, Idaho
Robert Nelson and Kristina Trygstad-Saari had been 55k race winners in 6:25 and 5:26. Trygstad-Saari was the primary total finisher by almost an hour, however simply missed her personal course report from 2022 by 15 seconds. Full outcomes.
Royal Gorge Groove – Cañon Metropolis, Colorado
Path rookie Daniel Finger and longtime ace Anna Mae Flynn each set new course information on the second-year 50k. Finger and Flynn completed in 4:18 and 5:04. Full outcomes.
Path Combine 50k – Rockford, Minnesota
The race goes again 33 years. Nick Holton, age 19, championed the lads’s race in 3:47, and Bobbi Van Donsel was first within the girls’s race in 5:00. Full outcomes.
Earth Day 50k – Crystal Lake, Illinois
Brandon Queen, who was operating his first ultramarathon, and Nikki Criscuolo got here throughout the road first in 4:13 and 4:52, to win the lads’s and girls’s races, respectively. Full outcomes.
Nikki Criscuolo celebrating Earth Day with a 50k win. Picture: Jenny Thorsen
Overlook the PR Mohican 50k – Loudonville, Ohio
The Mohican State Park race noticed Jacob Conrad and Hannah Roberts end first for the women and men in 4:50 and 6:00. Full outcomes.
Stillhouse 100k – Soddy Daisy, Tennessee
There have been simply 20 finishers, however Coree Woltering set a brand new males’s course report in 11:54 and girls’s frontrunners Christina Williams and Shannon Dye look to have completed in a first-place tie at 17:13. Full outcomes.
Promise Land 50k – Bedford, Virginia
A hope and a prayer introduced Aaron Slabach and Sawyer Magnett again to the church camp race end first in 4:46 and 5:25. Full outcomes.
TARC Spring Traditional – Weston, Massachusetts
The Path Animals Operating Membership occasion ran on a 10k loop contained in the Jericho City Forest. Mead Binhammer received the lads’s 50k in 3:45, six minutes in entrance of Zack Beavin. Girls’s 50k winner Lila Gaudrault got here via in 4:14. Within the marathon, each Gregory Esbitt and Michelle Boland completed in 3:57 to win the lads’s and girls’s races, respectively, with Boland additionally the general winner by a 35-second margin. Full outcomes.
Zach Beavin (proper) main Mead Binhammer on path in the course of the 2024 TARC Spring Traditional 50k. Picture: Chris Wristen
Boston Marathon – Boston, Massachusetts
Again on Monday, April 15, Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts, this yr’s Boston Marathon noticed some path runners and ultrarunners amongst the entrance of the lads’s and girls’s fields. The boys’s 50k world report holder CJ Albertson ran 2:09:53 for seventh place. It was a brand new private finest. After which it’s been some years since we noticed Patrick Smyth on trails, however he went 2:15:45 for 18th place. Smyth was a 2017 U.S. Mountain Operating Group member. Girls’s 50k world report holder Des Linden was sixteenth in 2:28:27. Full outcomes.
Name for Feedback
What different path runners and ultrarunners ran the Boston Marathon, and had been there any acquainted names within the London Marathon?