Consideration vacation customers: There are solely two extra weekends to go earlier than the calendar ticks over. The yr is sort of executed, and that is the penultimate column for 2025. Let’s make it extra enjoyable than an workplace vacation social gathering!
Hellgate 100k – Fincastle, Virginia
Snow-covered trails marked elements of the primary 30 miles of the course, and it was 24 levels Fahrenheit on the 12:01 a.m. begin of the 66.6-mile run.
Lower than 4 minutes separated Lexi Delisle and Isabella Poulos on the entrance of the ladies’s race. Delisle gained in 13:10, and Poulos was second in 13:14. Delisle had gained three Virginia ultras earlier this yr, and Poulos gained this yr’s Wasatch 100 Mile. Rachel Doxey was third in 13:49.
The boys ran it shut too. Brandon Fogarty was precisely eight minutes forward of second-place Kevin McKenna. The 2 ran 11:10 and 11:18. Aaron Slabach was third in 11:25.
Full outcomes.
Brandon Fogarty and Lexi Delisle, the 2025 Hellgate 100k winners with race director David Horton. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Himam Path Run Race – Al Hajar Mountains, Oman
The occasion’s lengthy course went for 118 kilometers with 5,820 meters of climbing. That’s 73 miles and simply over 19,000 toes of climbing. Maite Maiora (Spain) gained the ladies’s race in 19:02. She was over an hour forward of the subsequent girl. Males’s winner Ahmed Ayyoup (Morocco) completed in 14:43.
Clara Magnin (France) and Amjad Aljamoudi (Oman) have been quickest within the 60k race in 8:20 and 5:46, respectively.
Full outcomes.
Extra Races and Runs
Frozen Path Run Fest 50k – Eugene, Oregon
First-place runners Colette Richter and Kyle Terry got here by way of in 4:34 and 4:09. Full outcomes.
Left Nut 50 – Bristol, Rhode Island
Within the 50-mile occasion, Miranda Gajda gained for the ladies in 8:12, and Austin LaBerge gained for the boys in 7:55.
Within the 50k, Holly Koksel got here out forward in 4:32, and Murat Koksel gained for the boys with a 4:57. Full outcomes when accessible.
Miranda Gajda, the 2025 Left Nut 50 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Austin LaBerge, the 2025 Left Nut 50 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Doomsday 50k – Cool, California
The primary three total finishers have been all ladies, and Sylvie Abel was the quickest in 4:37. Calvin Frink was the primary man however solely fourth total in 5:21. Full outcomes.
The 2025 Doomsday 50k podiums (left to proper): 3. William Cassayre, 2. Michael Fitzsimmons, 1. Calvin Frink, 1. Sylvie Abel, 2. Emily Renner, 3. Marie VanZandt. Photograph: Keith Facchino/Facchino Pictures
Tucson 50k – Oro Valley, Arizona
The street extremely had Rachel Antol and Ian Sharman as its winners in 4:22 and three:12. Full outcomes.
Ignite Path Marathon – Albion, Indiana
The 2-loop marathon at Chain O’Lakes State Park had Grace Zoppi and Patrick Periard end first in 4:25 and 4:14. Full outcomes.
Spirit of Syllamo 100 Mile – Norfork, Arkansas
Racers confronted bitterly chilly temperatures, and Ashley Nordell and Daniel Arnold gained in 22:30 and 21:34. Full outcomes when accessible.
Ashley Nordell, the 2025 Spirit of Syllamo 100 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Daniel Arnold (left), the 2025 Spirit of Syllamo 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Bare Nick 50k – Leesport, Pennsylvania
The back-to-basics race was gained by Gretchen Meise and Nicholas Snow in 6:05 and 5:27, respectively. Full outcomes.
Daytona 100 Ultras – Jacksonville Seaside, Florida
The 100-mile winners Nicole Coccia and Oliver Bieser ran 16:18 and 13:34. Jessica Jones and Fernando Holz gained the 50 miler in 8:14 and seven:49, and Logan Thorpe and Adam Ping have been tops within the 50k in 5:07 and 4:37. Full outcomes.
Texmas 104k – Smithville, Texas
Charmin McKee and Chuck Baker gained in 17:42 and 13:02, respectively. Full outcomes.
Charmin McKee, the 2025 Texmas 104k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Chuck Baker, the 2025 Texmas 104k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Subsequent Weekend: Desert Solstice Monitor Invitational – Phoenix, Arizona
Quick occasions at Central Excessive are developing. The sector is proscribed to 25, with runners competing within the 100-mile or 24-hour occasions, or each, on the 400-meter monitor. There’s additionally an opportunity to clock a quick 100k time within the course of.
For the ladies, Georgia Porter and Colleen Drahos each ran 75 miles in 12 hours earlier this yr, and can seemingly be seeking to go longer and quicker. Drahos additionally ran 133.89 miles over 24 hours earlier this yr. Joyce Payne is the third ladies’s entrant, and she or he ran 176.81 miles in a 48-hour race earlier this yr.
Present 50-mile world-record holder Charlie Lawrence is reportedly chasing a quick time on the 100k distance. He ran a record-ineligible, aided 6:03 in a 100k on the adidas-sponsored “Chasing 100” occasion at Italy’s Nardò Ring auto-racing monitor in August earlier this yr. Lithuania’s Aleksandr Sorokin nonetheless holds the official 100k world file at 6:04.
Different high runners embody Zach Bitter, Isaiah Janzen, and Pete Kostelnick. Bitter is the quickest North American ever over 100 miles at 11:19 from 2019. Janzen and Kostelnick are each previous U.S. 24-Hour Nationwide Group members.
Full entrant checklist.
Charlie Lawrence en path to a brand new 50-mile world file on the 2023 Tunnel Hill 50 Mile. Photograph: Zack Lever/@TrailLive
2026 Skyrunner World Collection
The 2026 Skyrunner World Collection options 19 races in 12 international locations throughout 4 continents. The sequence will return to the U.S. with Washington’s Beast of Large Creek race within the Olympic Mountains.
February 22 – Cuatro Refugios (Argentina)
March 7 – Andes Mountain Skyrace (Chile)
March 14 – Acantilados Del Norte (Spain)
April 11 – Calamorro Skyrace (Spain)
April 26 – Penang Skyrace (Malaysia)
Might 3 – Skyrace des Matheysins (France)
Might 4 – Ueda Skyrace (Japan)
Might 23 – Skyrace des Gorges du Tarn (France)
June 20 – Yading Skyrace (China)
June 28 – Ibarra Skyrace (Ecuador)
July 5 – Cordillera Blanca Skyrace (Peru)
August 1-2 – Beast of Large Creek (U.S.)
August 21 – Matterhorn Ultraks Excessive (Switzerland)
August 23 – Trofeo Kima (Italy)
September 5 – Maga SkyMarathon (Italy)
September 27 – Gorbeia Suzien (Spain)
October 18 – Mt. Kinabalu Worldwide Climbathon (Malaysia)
October 24-25 – Sobrescobio Skyrace (Spain)
November 7 – Marató dels Dements (Spain)
Anastasia Rubtsova gained the 2025 Skyrunner World Collection total. Photograph: Skyrunner World Collection
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Rainshadow Operating’s Deception Cross 50k in Washington was postponed forward of anticipated flooding.
I used to be in no way acquainted with 2026 Skyrunner World Collection race Beast of Large Creek. May any readers be nearer to this race?
