Name it a comfortable opening. Our first 2024 column is gentle. There simply isn’t that a lot racing between the Christmas and New 12 months’s holidays, however we’ve obtained an all-U.S. tally of outcomes to share, plus subsequent yr’s WMRA World Cup schedule.
Throughout the Years – Phoenix, Arizona
The Aravaipa Working competition returned to Camelback Ranch for six days of working over a 1.4-mile loop. The occasion began on December 28 and received’t conclude till January 3. There’s a mess of various race choices over the occasion’s seven days.
Remo Spagnol and Hannah Carta received the 200-mile race in 57:25 and 71:17.
Within the mounted time 48-hour race, Matthew Shepard and Rachel Entrekin totaled 133 and 195 miles, respectively.
12-hour runners Alexander Belotz and Natalie Larson had been atop the charts at 56 and 70 miles.
James Nalley and Shawna Wentlandt ran for 72 hours and rang up 228 and 211 miles.
Maybe the occasion’s greatest winner although, 75-year-old Janice O’Grady was on fireplace. She set 100k, 12-hour, 24-hour, and 100-mile age group world file. The massive one, that 100-mile mark, was achieved in 29:53.
Full outcomes.
Bob Graham Spherical – Lake District, England, United Kingdom
The famed fell working circuit goes 66 miles with almost 27,000 toes of elevation acquire over 42 peaks, and it’s seen a flurry of winter exercise in current weeks.
Going within the slower counter clockwise route, Andy Berry ran solo and unsupported and completed his midwinter loop in 18:05. In Could 2023, Berry set a brand new Lake District 24-hour file with 78 peak summits.
After which Henriette Albon (Norway) set a brand new ladies’s midwinter file at 17:55.
Tuscobia Winter Extremely – Park Falls, Wisconsin
The occasion is a run, bike, or run race named for its course on the Tuscobia and Wild Rivers State Trails in far northern Wisconsin. The 160-mile run had 24 starters and began on December 29.
Herman Watson was the boys’s winner in 37:34, and Simone Valentin Austin was prime lady in 57:13.
Simone Valentin Austin, the 2023 Tuscobia Winter Extremely 160 mile ladies’s winner. Photograph: Tuscobia Winter Extremely
Within the 80-mile run, prime males Korey Konietzki and Michael Ryan completed in a first-place tie at 16:58 and Nichole Diedrick led the ladies in 18:53. Monitoring.
Korey Konietzki and Michael Ryan, the 2023 Tuscobia Winter Extremely 80 mile joint males’s winners. Photograph: Tuscobia Winter Extremely
Further Races and Runs
Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour – Missouri Metropolis, Texas
The eleventh annual race began on Saturday, December 30 and received’t end till 2:00 p.m. on Monday, January 1. The fundraiser for the Snowdrop Basis was run on a .69-mile loop. They’re 30 hours in on the time of this writing and Juan Acevedo and Megan Eckert are out entrance with 190 and 178 miles on the board. Eckert received final yr’s race, totaling 190 miles in 2022-23. Full outcomes.
Charleston 100 Mile – Charleston, South Carolina
It was the race’s sixth yr throughout the low nation. There have been 44 finishers and each the boys’s and ladies’s winners set new course information. Chris Varnadoe completed in 15:29 and ladies’s chief Christina Couper ran 17:12. Full outcomes.
Jupiter Ridge Sand Spur – Jupiter, Florida
The multi-distance occasion ran from December 29 to December 31. The race is sort of all run on sugar sand, a high-quality silt that’s too comfortable for vehicles and vans to drive on. Solely two of the race’s 30 finishers over 50k got here in underneath 5 hours on the distinctive course. Alexander Gaber and Brenda Lips completed in 4:58 and 4:49, respectively. Full outcomes.
2024 WMRA World Cup
The World Mountain Working Affiliation earlier introduced their 2024 World Cup roster. The sequence will run via eight nations, 10 occasions, and over 13 races between June and October 2024. World Cup general winners will every earn € 5,000.
June 21, 2024 – Damaged Arrow Skyrace Vertical (USA)
June 23, 2024 – Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k (USA)
July 7, 2024 – Grossglockner Mountain Run (Austria)
July 14, 2024 – Montemuro Vertical Run (Portugal)
July 20, 2024 – La Montee du Nid D’Aigle (France)
July 28, 2024 – Giir di Mont (Italy)
August 10, 2024 – Sierre-Zinal (Switzerland)
August 31, 2024 – Vertical Nasego (Italy)
September 1, 2024 – Trofeo Nasego (Italy)
September 22, 2024 – Sky GranCanaria (Spain)
October 5, 2024 – Šmarna Gora (Slovenia)
October 12, 2024 – Lagunc Verticale (Italy)
October 13, 2024 – Val Bregaglia Path (Italy)
We earlier shared the Golden Path World Sequence, Skyrunner World Sequence, and World Path Majors schedules too.
Andrea Rostan wins the 2023 Damaged Arrow Skyrace VK. Photograph: Peter Maksimow
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2024, able to roll! It appears to be like subsequent week marks my ninth anniversary of TWIR.
