January 6, 2025 – iRunFar


This Week in Running Justin Mock TWIRIt was a quiet path working and ultrarunning begin to 2o25. That mentioned, there have been quite a lot of smaller races nonetheless occurring across the U.S.

Tell us within the feedback what was occurring in your space!

Races and Runs

Del Dios Path Race 50k – Escondido, California

The race of the Gods at Lake Hodges topped Dan Friedman and Marie Younger as winners in 4:18 and 4:16. Younger was each the ladies’s and total winner. Full outcomes.

San Tan Scramble 50k – Queen Creek, Arizona

Race winners Jordan Bramblett and Sydney Park ran 3:30 and 4:55, respectively. The race was on the San Tan Mountain Regional Park. Full outcomes.

Throughout the Years – Peoria, Arizona

Additionally included in final week’s column, the occasion went almost per week between 2024 and 2025 with a number of completely different distance and fixed-time races. Spotlight runs included 100-mile winners Matt Collins and Sarah Zentack, in 14:48 and 19:46, and 200-mile leaders Tim Vail and Amy Mower, in 55:44 and 61:29. Cole Crosby and Janelle Stark ran 152 and 122 miles within the 24-hour race, and Andrew Readinger and Rachel Entrekin totaled 218 and 212 miles within the 48-hour contest. Full outcomes.

Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour – Missouri Metropolis, Texas

The New 12 months’s run had Juan Acevedo and Dena Carr whole 200 and 181 miles over the race’s two-plus days. Full outcomes.

2025 Snowdrop Ultra 55 Hour women's podium

The 2025 Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour ladies’s podium: (l-to-r) 1. Dena Carr, 2. Letha Cruthirds, 3. Rita Coughlin. Photograph: Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour

2025 Snowdrop Ultra 55 Hour men's podium

The 2025 Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour males’s podium: (l-to-r) 3. Josh Jenkins, 1. Juan Acevedo, 3. Michael McGinnis. Photograph: Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour

RAGBAG 50k – Waco, Texas

The primary-year 10-loop 50k had Colton Anderson and Emily Newberry atop its leaderboard in 6:05 and seven:09. Full outcomes.

Yankee Springs Winter Problem – Middleville, Michigan

It was the thirteenth yr for the occasion on the Yankee Springs State Recreation Space. A small group of fifty milers had been led by Jameson Kloeckner and Iris Lenauer (Canada) in 7:10 and 9:39, and Matthew Mackey and Elaine Sheikh had been greatest within the 50k at 5:08 and 4:44, with Sheikh the general winner. Full outcomes.

Nice Scorpion Path 50k – Meridian, Mississippi

The eighth annual race celebrates the scorpions at Bonita Lakes Park. Race winners Zachary Vogt and Amanda Ray ran 4:24 and 6:30. Full outcomes.

Amanda Ray - 2025 Great Scorpion Trail 50k women's winner

Amanda Ray, the 2025 Nice Scorpion Path 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph: Nice Scorpion Path 50k

Zachary Vogt - 2025 Great Scorpion Trail 50k men's winner

Zachary Vogt, the 2025 Nice Scorpion Path 50k males’s winner. Photograph: Nice Scorpion Path 50k

Frozen Sasquatch 50k – Charleston, West Virginia

William Ross and Katherine Felton went for 4:53 and 5:40 runs on the very best trails of the Kanawha State Forest. Full outcomes.

Katherine Felton - 2025 Frozen Sasquatch 50k female winner

Katherine Felton, the 2025 Frozen Sasquatch 50k feminine winner. Photograph: Appalachian Timing Group

William Ross - 2025 Frozen Sasquatch 50k male winner

William Ross, the 2025 Frozen Sasquatch 50k male winner. Photograph: Appalachian Timing Group

Salem Lakeshore Frosty 50k – Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Tom Clifford led 4 males beneath 4 hours with a 3:13 successful time, and Anna McPherson received the ladies’s race in 4:19. Full outcomes.

Harbison State Forest 50k – Columbia, South Carolina

High runners Garrett Spangler and Michele Schaafsma got here by in 4:27 and 6:29. Full outcomes.

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What’s arising later this month? Have you ever seen any path runners competing in snowshoe or ski mountaineering races but this season?



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