Ho, ho, ho! It’s a vacation week, and there wasn’t numerous racing.
There was, although, the Desert Solstice Observe Invitational and a few quick instances on the clock.
Desert Solstice Observe Invitational – Phoenix, Arizona
Males
Charlie Lawrence, already the 50-mile world report holder, arrived to the observe concentrating on a sub-6-hour 100-kilometer end. That will’ve been a brand new 100k world report, too. Lawrence missed these marks however got here away with a brand new American report. Amongst record-eligible programs, it’s the fourth-fastest time for the gap ever. Lawrence completed in 6:07:10. That’s solely 95 seconds again of Aleksandr Sorokin’s (Lithuania) 6:05:35 world report. Jim Walmsley’s former American report of 6:09:26 had stood since 2021.
Within the 24-hour race, Piotr Chadovich totaled 155.6 miles. That’s the furthest of any American for twenty-four hours this yr.
Charlie Lawrence units a brand new males’s 100k American report on the 2025 Desert Solstice Observe Invitational. Photograph: Aravaipa Working/Jubilee Paige
Girls
A small ladies’s area was led by Joyce Payne. She reached 100 miles in 17:41.
Full outcomes.
Joyce Payne, the 2025 Desert Solstice Observe Invitational 100-mile and 24-hour ladies’s winner. Photograph: Aravaipa Working/Jubilee Paige
U.S. and World Snowshoe Championships – Brillion, Wisconsin
The U.S. and World Snowshoe Championships had been held on back-to-back days, giving prime runners an opportunity to double up on medals.
The U.S. Showshoe Championships went first on a 5k observe. Solely 16 seconds separated the primary three males. Eliot Soderholm pulled away from Andrew Allen and Erik Barkhaus over the second half to win in 19:18. Allen and Barkhaus adopted in 19:31 and 19:34.
Jackie Hering dominated the ladies’s race in 22:41, and Laurel Moyer and Olivia Dietzel had been second and third in 25:02 and 25:51.
The following-day World Snowshoe Championships doubled the gap to go 10k. Soderholm, age 20, doubled again to win one other gold medal. Soderholm lined the observe in 38:06, over two minutes higher than everybody else. Julien Pinsonneault (Canada) got here subsequent in 41:32 for second, and Allen was third in 42:29.
It was a repeat within the ladies’s race, too. Hering got here again for extra and received in 46:30. Kaitlyn Vanias earned a silver medal in 48:37, and Dietzel was third for the second day in a row in 50:22.
Full outcomes.
Extra Races and Runs
Woodside Ramble 50k – Redwood Metropolis, California
The race was held on the Huddart County Park, and Kevin Stewart and Courtney Winterbauer received in 3:48 and 5:07. Full outcomes.
Cave Creek Thriller – Cave Creek, Arizona
Males’s 50k winner Eric LiPuma went means underneath the outdated course report and received in 3:38. Jeff Browning and Brian King had been second and third in 4:19 and 4:27. Joanna Fortier was atop the ladies’s podium in 4:46, and Rachel Buzzard and Rolonda Jumbo had been subsequent in 5:26 and 5:36, respectively. Full outcomes.
SoMo Solstice Souleater 50k – Phoenix, Arizona
Ross Kiewiet and Joe Mlachak tied for the lads’s race in 7:14, and Shelby Heinz received in 9:06.
Ross Kiewiet (left) and Joe Mlachak tied for the 2025 SoMo Solstice Souleater 50k males’s win. Photograph: Mike Hopkins
Shelby Heinz, the 2025 SoMo Solstice Souleater 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph: Mike Hopkins
Lookout Mountain 50 Mile – Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Race winners William Sickenberger and Amy Ross-Johnson led the fields in 7:27 and 9:21. Full outcomes.
Historic Oaks 100 Mile – Titusville, Florida
Racing within the Enchanted Forest Nature Sanctuary, Derek Daniels and Michelle Toppi received in 24:55 and 27:20. Full outcomes.
2026 World Path Majors
The third-year collection has a 10-event schedule for 2026 with each the longer and shorter collection returning. The schedule matches final yr with two exceptions. Two 2025 collection occasions — the Swiss Canyon Path (Switzerland) and Grand Raid des Pyrrénées (France) — are usually not a part of subsequent yr’s schedule.
January 22-25 – Hong Kong 100k and 50k (China)
February 14-15 – Black Canyon 100k and 50k (U.S.)
March 4-8 – Transgrancanaria 126k and 47k (Spain)
April 24-26 – Mt. Fuji 167k and 39k (Japan)
April 25-26 – Madeira Island Extremely-Path 118k and 56k (Portugal)
June 13-14 – South Downs Manner 161k and 50k (U.Ok.)
July 2-5 – Quebec Mega Path 135k and 51k (Canada)
September 17-20 – Vietnam Mountain Marathon 100k and 50k (Vietnam)
November 5-8 – Grampians Peaks Path 162k and 50k (Australia)
November 20-22 – Extremely-Path Cape City 100k and 55k (South Africa)
Caleb Olson, the 2025 Transgrancanaria males’s champion. Photograph: Transgrancanaria/Miguel Travieso
2026 U.S. Observe & Subject Affiliation (USATF) Mountain, Extremely, Path Championships
February 20 – 100-mile street nationwide championships – Jackpot 100 Mile (Nevada)
April 11 – 100k street nationwide championships – MadCity Ultras (Wisconsin)
June 7 – basic mountain working nationwide championships – Sunapee Scramble (New Hampshire)
June 19 – uphill mountain working nationwide championships – Damaged Arrow Ascent (California)
August 15 – 50k path nationwide championships – Wy’East Path Fest 50k (Oregon)
November 7 – half marathon path nationwide championships – Moab Half Marathon (Utah)
November 14 – 50-mile street nationwide championships – Tunnel Hill 50 Mile (Illinois)
Anna Gibson, the 2025 Damaged Arrow Ascent ladies’s champion. Photograph: Damaged Arrow Skyrace/Howie Stern
There aren’t any World Mountain Working Championships in 2026, however the Sunapee Scramble and Damaged Arrow Ascent will likely be choice races to call the U.S. crew for the Mountain Working World Cup Uphill and Traditional finales in Canada in October 2026.
Moreover, though not a nationwide championships occasion, the Damaged Arrow 23k, to be held on June 21, is the choice race for the U.S. crew that may race on the Mountain Working World Cup Lengthy Distance finale in Poland in September 2026.
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