Spring is right here, and racing is nicely below manner. The Approach Too Cool 50k was the weekend’s hotspot, however there have been a number of different races across the U.S. and elsewhere too.
Approach Too Cool 50k – Cool, California
After final 12 months’s weather-related cancellation, runners got here again for the race’s thirty fifth 12 months.
Girls
Jennifer Schmidt and Emily Clarke dueled on the entrance of the ladies’s race. Schmidt gained in 3:53 and Clarke was second in 3:54. The 2 frontrunners had been solely 51 seconds aside. Schmidt subsequent goes to the Gorge Waterfalls 100k in April and Clarke has quite a few shorter races just like the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k and Mammoth Trailfest 26k on her calendar.
Careth Arnold was third in 4:09.
Jennifer Schmidt, the 2025 Approach Too Cool 50k feminine winner. All photographs: Joel Corcoran
The ladies’s high 5 was:
Jennifer Schmidt – 3:53
Emily Clarke – 3:54
Careth Arnold – 4:09
Rachel Lemcke – 4:35
Katelyn Kerins – 4:44
Emily Clarke, the 2025 Approach Too Cool 50k second feminine.
Males
Hans the destroyer Troyer took the boys’s crown 3:19. Finnian Jacobson-Schulte completed second in 3:26, and Tommy Sullivan was third on the rostrum in 3:28.
The highest 14 males all ran below 4 hours.
Finnian Jacobson-Schulte, the 2025 Approach Too Cool 50k second man. Lead man Hans Troyer was sadly too quick for the digicam.
The lads’s high 5 was:
Hans Troyer – 3:19
Finnian Jacobson-Schulte – 3:26
Tommy Sullivan – 3:28
Mario Mendoza – 3:29
Jimmy McCue – 3:43
Full outcomes.
Extremely-Path Xiamen by UTMB – China
LXM 100k
Over 700 runners began the 65-mile race and its 18,251 toes of climbing. It was an all-Chinese language podium in each the ladies’s and males’s races.
Ying Li, Li-Ping Wang, and Wen-Li Jiang went one-two-three in 14:20, 14:37, and 14:45 for the ladies.
Males’s leaders Ji Duo and Jia-Ju Zhao seem to have completed in a tie, each clocking precisely 11:27:22 finishes. Pei-Quan You was a distant third in 12:36.
MXM 50k
Chinese language runners additionally swept the rostrum of the 33-mile race.
The highest three girls all completed contained in the top-10 total. Fu-Zhao Xiang was first in 6:05, and Wen-Rong Zheng and Ti Ren completed subsequent in 6:35 and 6:43.
Jian-Jian Yang gapped Min Qi for the boys’s win in 5:22, 10 minutes higher than his chaser. Sheng Zhang was third in 5:41.
Full outcomes.
Further Races and Runs
Motatapu – Queenstown, New Zealand
Kiwis Hannah Wall and Dean Stewart gained the 52k race in 6:57 and 6:30. Additionally each from New Zealand, Marina Ferguson and Benje Patterson had been quickest within the path marathon in 3:28 and three:04. Full outcomes.
Tokyo Marathon – Tokyo, Japan
Fourth eventually 12 months’s Transgrancanaria traditional race, Dominika Stelmach (Poland) did this winter-spring slightly totally different. She was the thirty first lady in 2:43. Full outcomes.
Iditarod Path Invitational – McGrath, Alaska
The 350-mile race finishes in McGrath and 1,000-mile opponents go all the way in which to Nome. This 12 months’s race was marked by heat climate and little snow. The 1,000 milers have fairly a methods to go, however within the 350-mile race, Stacy Fisk and Melanie Vriesman are collectively on the entrance late into the ladies’s race. Fisk and Vriesman are two of simply three within the race, and Scott Hoberg completed first for the boys in 126:18. That’s 5 days, six hours, and 18 minutes. Full outcomes.
Napa Valley Marathon – Napa, California
Garrett Corcoran left the paths to win the Napa Valley Marathon in 2:15:48. Carolina Garcia gained for the ladies in 2:43:24. Each picked up a case of 12 bottles of wine for his or her efforts. Full outcomes.
Grandmaster Ultras – Mesquite, Nevada
Tops within the 100-mile race had been Sandra Spence and Patrick Oborn in 28:07 and 19:59. Full outcomes.
Monument Valley Extremely – Monument Valley, Utah
Race winners Karen Krob and Charles Atsye took the 50k course in 5:52 and 5:04. Full outcomes.
Pink Mountain 50k – St. George, Utah
Laura Berglind and Braden Perry gained in 4:49 and three:54. Full outcomes.
Mississippi Path – Laurel, Mississippi
Bethany Madson gained the 100 miler in 19:08. She completed second total and set a brand new course document too. Jackson Wolf gained the boys’s 100 miler in 17:24, and that was a brand new course document too for the third-year 100 miler. The 50 miler goes manner again to 1980 and this 12 months’s winners had been Greta Conlon and Joshua Moore in 9:31 and 5:50. Full outcomes.
Music Metropolis Path Extremely 50k – Pegram, Tennessee
A small group of 50k finishers was led by Jewly Hight and Ryan Fina in 5:46 and 4:54. Full outcomes.
Tremendous Bull Path Championships – Wooster, Ohio
The ninth-year race had a $1,300 prize purse throughout three distances. Amelia Kvalheim and Alec Cline gained the 50k in 6:27 and 4:19, respectively. Full outcomes.
Bare Bavarian 40 Mile – Leesport, Pennsylvania
Kalei Hering and John Dragon gained the race at Blue Marsh Lake in 6:07 and 5:11, respectively. Full outcomes.
USATF Highway Half Marathon Nationwide Championships – Atlanta, Georgia
A couple of weeks after operating 1:16 on the Mesa Half Marathon in Arizona, Tabor Hemming popped a 1:14:05 end for 74th place. Full outcomes.
Gate River 15k – Jacksonville, Florida
At age 36, Andy Wacker continues to be operating quick. He completed ninth in 43:52 towards a nationally aggressive subject. Wacker was 4 years older than anybody else within the high 10. Full outcomes.
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