The weekend included course information on the JFK 50 Mile, the top of this 12 months’s World Path Majors in South Africa, and the USATF 24-Hour Nationwide Championships. Doesn’t it really feel like nearly each weekend brings an thrilling development in path working and ultrarunning lately?
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JFK 50 Mile – Boonsboro, Maryland
Reset the document books. Each the ladies’s and males’s course information fell, and the race’s all-time top-10 charts look method totally different after this weekend!
All of it occurred within the race’s 62nd 12 months, on the distinctive point-to-point course that mixes Appalachian Path, towpath, and street segments. The race had about 1,000 runners.
Ladies
Rachel Drake rolled the competitors and the course document. Drake completed in 5:57. That’s a full eight minutes higher than Sarah Biehl’s previous course document from 2022 and 14 minutes sooner than Ellie Greenwood’s 2012 mark that earlier stood for a decade.
Trying again on 2024, Drake’s 12 months of ultrarunning included wins on the Black Canyon 100k and Tillamook Burn 50 Mile, in addition to an eighth-place end on the Western States 100. This can certainly result in every kind of votes within the upcoming “UltraRunning Journal” (North American) Ultrarunner of the Yr awards.
Rachel Drake on her solution to successful the 2024 JFK 50 Mile girls’s race and setting a brand new course document. Picture: H3 Images
Mary Denholm, this 12 months’s Silver Rush 50 Mile and Leadville 100 Mile winner, additionally went beneath the previous course document. She was second in 6:04.
The document redo doesn’t cease there, although.
Third-place Valérie Arsenault (Canada) completed in 6:15, the race’s fifth-fastest run ever. Fourth-place Robyn Lesh ran 6:21, the race’s sixth-fastest run ever.
The ladies’s high 5 had been:
- Rachel Drake – 5:57:32
- Mary Denholm – 6:04:15
- Valérie Arsenault (Canada) – 6:15:59
- Robyn Lesh – 6:21:55
- Britta Clark – 6:44:25
Males
David Sinclair and Eli Hemming dueled by means of the race’s first half, however Hemming bumped into hassle late and Sinclair was on their own on the finish.
Sinclair completed in 5:08. That’s over 10 minutes higher than Hayden Hawks’s previous course document from 2020. And for larger context on Sinclair’s run towards historical past, Adam Peterman and Jim Walmsley are actually third- and fourth-fastest ever on the longtime race.
Although by no means racing 100 miles, Sinclair has had a standout 12 months additionally worthy of upcoming “UltraRunning Journal” (North American) Ultrarunner of the Yr votes — and so too has Hemming. Sinclair gained the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 46k and set a course document on the Speedgoat by UTMB 50k — two occasions wildly totally different from the JFK 50 Mile — and was second on the Silver State 50k.
David Sinclair successful the 2024 JFK 50 Mile males’s race and setting a brand new course document. Picture: H3 Images
Ryan Sullivan and Matt Seidel had been second and third in 5:27 and 5:29. Sullivan’s run ranks the sixth-best ever, and Seidel’s is the eighth-fastest ever.
The boys’s high 5 had been:
- David Sinclair – 5:08:26
- Ryan Sullivan – 5:27:40
- Matt Seidel – 5:29:34
- Tracen Knopp – 5:31:15
- Eli Hemming – 5:33:09
Extremely-Path Cape City – Cape City, South Africa
The occasion, which celebrated its tenth version, included six races, with 2,800 runners from 66 international locations. The race programs took within the trails of Desk Mountain Nationwide Park. There was quite a lot of prize cash on the road, and the 100-kilometer race was a part of the World Path Majors.
UTCT
The 100-mile race winners, Kerry-Ann Marshall (South Africa) and Aleksei Tolstenko (Russia), ran 25:38 and 21:06, respectively. Every earned R60,000, or about $3,300. It was Tolstenko’s second-straight win at UTCT.
UT100
The 98k race was the 12 months’s final World Path Majors contest. The 61-mile course crossed sandy seashores and went up steep climbs for 4,972 meters (16,312 ft) of acquire. Prize cash went three deep, with R40,000 ($2,200) to the race winners.
Jazmine Lowther (U.S.) stretched the ladies’s discipline out with a runaway win in 12:04. That was 46 minutes higher than second-place Antonina Iushina (Russia). Eva Sperger of Germany rounded out the ladies’s podium in 13:07.
Jazmine Lowther, 2024 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k girls’s champion. Picture: Extremely-Path Cape City/Sam Clark
Hugo Deck (France) and Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) gapped the lads’s discipline with breakaway 10:31 and 10:45 first- and second-place runs. Michelino Sunseri (U.S.) ran 11:16 for the third podium spot.
Hugo Deck, the 2024 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k males’s champion. Picture: Extremely-Path Cape City/Sam Clark
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Prize cash was awarded right here, too, with R20,000, which is about $1,100, going to the winners.
Anna Tarasova (Spain) was victorious within the girls’s race at 6:02, and Louise Serban (France) and Landie Greyling (South Africa) had been second and third in 6:14 and 6:27, respectively.
Race veterans Robbie Simpson (U.Ok.) and Jeshurun Small (U.S.) had been once more on the entrance, and Simpson gained for the third 12 months in a row. Simpson clocked 5:18 to Small’s 5:23. Ryan Sandes (South Africa) took third in 5:41.
Extra Races and Runs
Grampians Peaks Path 100 Mile – Gariwerd, Australia
The brand new race went north to south by means of the Grampian Mountains, however a lot of the discipline was stopped close to mile 80 for warmth and security considerations. Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) and Sange Sherpa (Nepal, lives in France) had been main on the time of the stoppage. Full outcomes.
Duncan Ridge Path 50k/30k – Blairsville, Georgia
Within the 50k, Wendy Mader took the ladies’s win in 9:28, whereas Callan Hasling gained for the lads in 6:57. Within the 30k, it was Aden St Charles for the ladies in 3:53 and Zac Wilson for the lads in 3:31. Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Wendy Mader, 2024 Duncan Ridge Path 50k girls’s champion. Picture: Duncan Ridge Path 50k/Brandon Younger
Callan Hasling, 2024 Duncan Ridge Path 50k males’s champion. Picture: Duncan Ridge Path 50k/Brandon Younger
Golden Gate Spartan Path – San Francisco, California
The occasion hosted three race distances, a 50k, 25k, and 15k. Sara Bagnell and Marc Bernades (Spain) gained the 50k race in 4:55 and three:56. Over 25k, Olivia Amber and Kyle Fox took the wins in 1:54 and 1:38, respectively. Full outcomes.
Fats Ox – Buckeye, Arizona
Numerous totally different races came about at this occasion! The 24-hour race was once more the USATF 24-Hour Nationwide Championships. Janelle Stark and Philip Sebastiani gained with 139- and 142-mile totals, respectively. Full outcomes.
2025 Skyrunner World Sequence
Subsequent 12 months’s Skyrunner World Sequence will embody 24 races in 16 international locations and throughout 4 international locations.
- March 22 – Acantilados Del Norte (Spain)
- March 29 – Mexico Sky Problem (Mexico)
- April 5 – Calamorro Skyrace (Spain)
- April 12 – Andes Mountain Skyrace (Chile)
- April 20 – Skyrace Des Matheysins (France)
- Could 4 – UEDA Skyrace (Japan)
- Could 10 – Corendon Tahtali Run To Sky (Türkiye)
- Could 18 – Monte Zerbion Skyrace (Italy)
- Could 31 – Hochkönigman Skyrace (Austria)
- June 7 – Skyraces Des Gorges Du Tarn (France)
- June 21 – Minotaur Skyrace (Canada)
- June 29 – Ibarra Skyrace (Ecuador)
- July 6 – Cordillera Blanca Skyrace (Peru)
- July 27 – Tatra SkyMarathon (Poland)
- August 22 – Matterhorn Ultraks Excessive (Switzerland)
- September 6 – Saint Jeorie Skyrace (France)
- September 20 – Grigne SkyMarathon (Italy)
- September 27 – Gorbeia Suzien (Spain)
- October 11 – Mourne Skyline (Eire)
- October 19 – Mt. Kinabalu Worldwide Climbathon (Malaysia)
- October 25 – 2 Peaks Skyrace (South Korea)
- October 25 – Sobrescobio Skyrace (Spain)
- November 8 – SkyMasters Marató Dels Dements (Spain)
The 2025 Skyrunner World Sequence will journey worldwide. Picture: Skyrunner World Sequence
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The earlier JFK 50 Mile girls’s course document stood for 2 years, and the lads’s for 4 years. How lengthy will Rachel Drake and David Sinclair’s information final?