This week’s column goes from Alyeska to Zakopane, and with Speedgoat, By no means Summer time, and all the pieces else in between. International stars like Lucy Bartholomew, Lauren Gregory, Caleb Olson, and Eli Hemming have been all among the many weekend’s racers.
Speedgoat by UTMB – Snowbird Resort, Utah
50k
Lauren Gregory dominated the ladies’s race in 5:56, and was simply over a minute behind Jennifer Lichter’s 2025 course file. Gregory grew to become solely the second lady to run sub-6 hours on this course, and she or he completed sixth general, too. It’s all a part of a build-up to OCC in late August for Gregory.
Second- and third-place Klaire Rhodes and Leah Yingling completed in 6:21 and 6:27, respectively.
The ladies’s high 5 was:
Lauren Gregory – 5:56
Klaire Rhodes – 6:21
Leah Yingling – 5:27
Shalyn Gieringer – 6:38
Katti Jackson – 6:54
Anthony Williams led the primary 18 miles, however then Mason Coppi took over. Coppi gained the race in 5:15, and Williams was second in 5:19. A 12 months in the past, Williams ran 5:20 for third.
Cam Smith was third in 5:32. Smith is subsequent on the beginning checklist for Sierre-Zinal.
For historic perspective, David Sinclair’s 2024 course file stands at 4:57.
The boys’s high 5 was:
Mason Coppi – 5:15
Anthony Williams – 5:19
Cam Smith – 5:32
Caleb Olson – 5:35
Nicholas Turco – 5:49
30k
The race was simply lower than 20 miles in distance with 6,561 ft of climbing, and it ran a day earlier than the 50k.
At mile 13, Janelle Day had a three-minute lead on Carmen Bango, but it surely flipped over the following a number of miles. Bango gained the ladies’s race in 3:47, and Day was second in 3:50. Rosemary Winterton completed third in 3:54.
The boys’s race ran equally. Adrian MacDonald overtook early chief Joseph Demoor and Sean McCauley within the race’s second half. MacDonald gained in 3:03, McCauley was second in 3:06, and Demoor completed third in 3:10.
Full outcomes.
By no means Summer time – Gould, Colorado
100k
The entire ladies’s podium got here from close by Fort Collins. Liv Taber led all of it and gained in 13:18. She completed fourth general. Megan Drake and Taylor Bacon have been on the rostrum subsequent in 13:38 and 14:37.
Liv Taber on her approach to successful the 2026 By no means Summer time 100k. Picture: Terry Grenwelge
Evan Christopherson was in entrance for all the males’s race and gained in 11:51. He was 12 minutes again of Justin Grunewald’s course file from 2024, and like the ladies’s podium, he too is from Fort Collins. Tripp Hipple was second in 12:36, and Jon Christensen got here in third at 13:17.
Full outcomes.
Evan Christopherson, 2026 By no means Summer time 100k champion. Picture: Kevin Fort
60k
The simultaneous 60k (39 miles) race had 8,100 ft of climbing.
Eva Keohane hit the primary checkpoint simply forward of Imogen Ainsworth and Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) and added to the lead for the remainder of the mountain loop. Keohane completed in 6:42 and set a brand new course file. She’s the race’s solely ever sub-7-hour ladies’s finisher. Bartholomew broke the previous course file too with a second-place 7:01 end, and third-place Ainsworth was simply over the previous mark in 7:12.
Eva Keohane en path to successful the 2026 By no means Summer time 60k. Picture: Terry Grenwelge
It occurred within the males’s race too, as Eli Hemming led all the pieces and set a brand new course file in 5:27. Second-place Calbert Visitor was higher than the previous file too in 5:55. Third-place Austin Gliottone completed in 6:15.
Full outcomes.
Eli Hemming, 2026 By no means Summer time 60k champion. Picture: Terry Grenwelge
Giir di Mont – Premana, Italy
It was the race’s thirty second version on a 32k (20 miles) northern Italy mountain route. Race winners earned 2,500 € with prize cash going 10 deep. Nonetheless, the race didn’t appeal to the extent of competitors it maybe traditionally has.
It was an all-Italian ladies’s podium with Aurora Bosia main Francesca Crippa and Giorgia Fascendini. The three completed in 3:58, 4:21, and 4:23, respectively.
Males’s winner Kevin Kibet (Kenya) was precisely one minute in entrance of second-place Federico Nicolini (Italy) with 2:57 and a pair of:58 on the end clock. Damiano Pederetti (Italy) was simply over a minute again in third at 2:59.
Full outcomes.
Further Races and Runs
Bucovina Extremely Rocks by UTMB – Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania
The occasion occurred in northeastern Romania, within the Carpathian Mountains. The lengthy course Extremely Rocks race was virtually 71 miles with 23,000 ft of climbing. Elena Ungureanu (Romania) and Alejandro Lopez (Spain) gained in 21:14 and 16:12. Therese Årvik (Norway) and Miguel Arsenio (Portugal) gained the 45-mile 4 Summits race in 10:17 and eight:01. Madalina Amariei (Romania) and Karol Siola (Poland) have been finest within the 30-mile Woman’s Rocks race in 5:49 and 4:56. Full outcomes.
Tatra Skymarathon – Zakopane, Poland
It was an all-Polish podium on the race’s namesake distance. Iwona Januszyk was practically an hour higher than the second-place lady in 5:38, and Bartosz Gorczyca gained for the lads in 4:37. Full outcomes.
Grossglockner Extremely-Path – Zell am See, Austria
Close to Salzburg, Miranda Krekovic (Croatia) and Robert Berger (Austria) gained the 110k race in 17:27 and 14:22. Ida-Sophie Hegemann (Germany) and Falk Fischer (Germany) have been finest within the 84k race in 11:09 and 10:47, and Robyn Lesh (U.S.) and Jiří Petr (Czech Republic) gained the 57k in 6:50 and 6:24. Full outcomes.
Fjällmaraton – Ottsjö, Sweden
The eight-day, eight-race pageant is now underway. As of this text’s writing on Sunday night, Amanda Nilsson (Sweden) and Lorenzo Cagnati (Italy) gained the 27k in 2:21 and 1:55. Former Speedgoat 50k winner Noah Brautigam (U.S.) was fourth in 1:59. Full outcomes.
Buckin’ Hell 50k – North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The race had 8,530 ft of climbing within the North Shore Mountains. Alexandra Augsten was each the ladies’s and general winner in 5:45, and Evan Livingstone gained for the lads in 5:50. Full outcomes.
Cirque Sequence – Alyeska, Alaska
The newest Cirque Sequence installment went 6.1 miles and had 3,912 ft of climbing. Race winners earned $1,000. Shauna Severson and Jackson Cole gained in 1:17 and 1:06. Full outcomes.
White River 50 – Crystal Mountain, Washington
The 50-mile race had 10,200 ft of U.S. Pacific Northwest elevation acquire, and race winners Jessica Quinn and Justin Daniels did it in 9:16 and eight:24. Quinn was additionally third general. Natalie Malicki and Sean Richardson gained the 50k in 5:38 and 4:34. Full outcomes.
Huckleberry Hundred – Spokane, Washington
The 100-mile race at Mount Spokane State Park was a four-loop course that totaled 19,000 ft of climbing. Sarah Trautman and Zach Eagle gained in 22:08 and 18:12. Full outcomes.
Misplaced Sierra Endurance Race – Downieville, California
The 100k winners have been Meghan Cihasky and Kellen Scott in 11:47 and 11:36. Full outcomes.
Loopy Mountain 100 Mile – Lennep, Montana
The race by means of the Loopy Mountains in southcentral Montana totaled over 21,000 ft of climbing. This 12 months it was run beneath unusually sizzling situations. Precisely 18 minutes separated the primary three ladies. Blair Velocity gained in 28:29, and Annie Hughes and Krissy Moehl have been completed in 28:40 and 28:47. Pete Behrends gained for the lads in 22:46 over Adam Campbell and Nick Kunerman in 25:38 and 26:06. Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Blair Velocity, 2026 Loopy Mountain 100 Mile champion. Picture: Sarah Attar
Pete Behrends, 2026 Loopy Mountains 100 Mile champion. Picture: Anastasia Wilde
Pikes Peak Extremely – Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Mad Moose Occasions race noticed Elle Spacek and Joe Lange win the 50 miler in 11:07 and eight:12, and Emily Murphy and Patrick McGlade led the 50k in 7:06 and 5:21. Full outcomes.
Grand Island Path 50k – Munising, Michigan
The race occurred on its namesake island in Lake Superior. Stephanie Cloutier and Nick Dunkle went the quickest in 4:11 and 4:05. Full outcomes.
Burning River – Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
It was the twentieth 12 months for the 100-mile race by means of the Cuyahoga Valley Nationwide Park. Stacey Billig gained massive within the ladies’s race in 19:18, and Stephanie Capilongo and Rachel Eckert have been second and third in 22:11 and 22:49. Jordan Lafreniere outran Aiman Scullion for the lads’s crown, 15:43 to fifteen:46, and Alec Cline was third in 16:36. Within the 50-mile race, HollyAnn Swann and Caleb Bowen gained in 7:02 and 6:06. Full outcomes.
Escarpment Path Run – Windham, New York
Extremely, it was the forty ninth operating of the 30k (18.6 miles) race on a distant and technical course within the Catskill Mountains. Haley Heinrich gained the ladies’s race in 3:51 with Bonnie Lathrop and Aimee Kohler in second and third in 3:58 and 4:09. Males’s winner Luke Tighe completed in 3:03 and Gregory Ahlswede and Jared Desrochers have been subsequent on the rostrum in 3:09 and three:12, respectively. Full outcomes.
Baldface Scramble 29k – Chatham, New Hampshire
The 18-mile race included a summit of two,782-foot Mount Meader. Cayla Kolbe and Eli Nixon gained in 4:37 and three:19. Full outcomes.
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