Rain, Rocky Raccoon, and races from Florida to Morocco fill us up this week.
Looking forward to subsequent weekend, we’re much more excited for the Black Canyon 100k. You’ll discover a detailed outcomes article for that on iRunFar on Saturday.
Races and Runs
Marathon des Sables Atlantic Coast – Agadir, Morocco
The primary-year Marathon des Sables occasion was on the white sand dunes of Morocco’s Atlantic Coast, and contested as a three-day stage race. There have been three totally different race distances with the longest totaling 104 kilometers. Yoann Caught (France) and Anne-Caroline Kusnierz (France) received the lengthy course with 9:26 and 14:14 totals. Full outcomes.
Golden Gate Path Run – Rodeo Seashore, California
Over 50k, it was James Balagot and Rebecca Johnson going the quickest in 5:04 and 5:48. Full outcomes.
Lake Sonoma 100 Mile Sufferfest – Healdsburg, California
Climate tousled the inaugural 100 miler. Held on day two of huge rain, a brief bridge in place close to mile 75 gave option to a raging creek and the race was canceled after 15 hours. Dennis Boic and Lindsey Dwyer led on the time of the cancellation close to mile 68. Full outcomes.
Photographs exhibiting earlier than and after the bridge washout on the 2025 Lake Sonoma 100 Mile Sufferfest course. Photograph courtesy of John Medinger.
Jed Smith Extremely Basic – Sacramento, California
It was the occasion’s forty seventh yr. Piotr Kaszkur edged Karl Schnaitter on the entrance of the lads’s 50k. The 2 have been virtually two minutes aside in 3:36 and three:37, and Pam Smith received the ladies’s 50k in 3:58 with Beverley Anderson-Abbs solely six minutes again in second. Caleb Zingelman received the lads’s marathon in 3:59, however Emily Hawgood (Zimbabwe) was first general in 2:58. There was solely a small group of twelve 50-mile finishers, all males, led by James Scanlan in 6:25. Full outcomes.
Elephant Mountain – Cave Creek, Arizona
Aravaipa Operating’s busy winter season continued on the Cave Creek Regional Park. Damon Chavez and Taelor Smith received the 50 miler in 7:52 and 9:19 and Isaiah Ford and Leah Genth have been tops within the 50k in 4:08 and 5:25. Full outcomes.
Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile – Huntsville, Texas
The longtime race remains to be held on flat-and-fast multi-lap programs at Huntsville State Park. This yr’s 100-mile race topped Colin MacFarlane and Tatiana Rypinski as champs in 15:53 and 18:56, and the 100k greatest have been Jack Basler and Carina Segoviano in 9:56 and 13:13, respectively. Full outcomes.
Tatiana Rypinski, the 2025 Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile girls’s winner. Photograph: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Images
Colin MacFarlane, the 2025 Rocky Raccoon 100 mile males’s winner. Photograph: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Images
White Rock Basic 50k – Cass, Arkansas
The no-fee, no-frill race had Chris Lyle and Laura Arnold end first in 4:22 and 5:02. Full outcomes.
Runners collect for a race briefing earlier than the 2025 White Rock Basic 50k. Photograph: Steve Griffin/AURA Path Extremely Sequence
Stay Oak Extremely 50k – Biloxi, Mississippi
The primary-year race noticed Jamie Stevison and Annelise Rowe win in 3:40 and 4:17, and Rowe was third general. The race additionally celebrated Grace Wartmann, a 19-year-old adaptive athlete who accomplished her first 50k on the occasion. Full outcomes.
Grace Wartmann (second from the left), an adaptive athlete who accomplished her first extremely on the 2025 Stay Oak 50k. Photograph: Rougarou Operating
The 2025 Stay Oak 50k girls’s podium (l-to-r): 1. Annelise Rowe, 2. Bethany Madson, 3. Rebecca Vidrine. Photograph: Rougarou Operating
The 2025 Stay Oak 50k prime three general finishers (l-to-r): 1. Jamie Stevison,2. Ricky Greer, 3. Annelise Rowe. Photograph: Rougarou Operating
Uwharrie Mountain Run – Ophir, North Carolina
It was the race’s thirty fourth yr by means of the Uwharrie Nationwide Forest. Within the 40-mile race, Duncan Hoge received in 6:43 and was 44 minutes forward of Matthew Phelan in second. Melissa Anglemyer took the winter singletrack the quickest in 8:25, simply 5 minutes away from second-place Stacy McMurtey. There was additionally a 20-mile race, for which we’re awaiting full outcomes. Full outcomes.
Husband and spouse Duncan and Jennifer Hoge, who took first within the 40-mile and second within the 20-mile, respectively, on the 2025 Uwharrie Mountain Run. Photograph: Bull Metropolis Operating Co.
Forgotten Florida 100 Mile – Christmas, Florida
The Run Bum race takes in a few of Florida’s most distant trails. Ryan Kunz and Beth Kelty led the way in which in 16:34 and 22:45. Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Subsequent Weekend – Black Canyon 100k – Mayer, Arizona
It’s right here, the yr’s first large race. The Black Canyon 100k is large in numbers — there are over 1,100 runners on the beginning checklist — and it’s actually aggressive too. The purpose-to-point race is a Golden Ticket contest with the highest three women and men every incomes an automated entry to this yr’s Western States 100, and it’s additionally a World Path Majors occasion.
Right here’s a take a look at a few of the prime contenders.
Males
Cole Campbell – 1st 2024 Tamalpa Headlands 50k
Juan Carera Casas (Mexico) – 1st 2023 Extremely Caballo Blanco Copper Canyon 50 Mile
Jupiter Carera Casas (Mexico) – 2nd 2024 Black Canyon 100k
Elliot Cardin (Canada) – 2nd 2024 Gorge Waterfalls 100k
Makai Clemons – 4th 2024 Canyons by UTMB 100k
Jared Hazen – 4th 2022 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k
Eli Hemming – 1st 2024 OCC
Craig Hunt – 4th 2024 Black Canyon 100k
Tracen Knopp – sixth 2024 Black Canyon 100k
Can-Hua Luo (China) – 2nd 2023 Canyons 100 Mile
Joe McConaughy – 4th 2024 Cocodona 250 Mile
Ryan Miller – 2nd 2024 Mad Metropolis 100k
Calum Neff – 2nd 2023 JFK 50 Mile
Zach Perrin – 2nd 2024 Scout Mountain 50k
Ryan Raff – 1st 2024 Crown King Scramble 50k
Seth Ruhling – 4th 2024 Canyons 50k
Blake Slattengren – 2nd 2023 Javelina 100 Mile
Reese Slobodianuk – 1st 2024 Hennepin 200 Mile
Dave Stevens (Canada) – 1st 2023 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
Darren Thomas – 1st 2024 Silver State 50k
Tim Tollefson – sixth 2024 Canyons 100k
Scott Traer – 1st 2023 Desert Solstice 100 Mile
Hans Troyer – 1st 2024 Bandera 100k
Canyon Woodward – 1st 2024 Canyons 100 Mile
Eli Hemming, the 2024 OCC males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of UTMB.
Ladies
Sylvie Abel – third 2024 Javelina 100k
Lindsay Allison – 1st 2024 Tamalpa Headlands 50k
Shea Aquilano – eleventh 2024 Canyons 100k
Valerie Arsenault (Canada) – third 2023 JFK 50 Mile
Katie Asmuth – 4th 2023 Western States 100
Jenna Bensko – 4th 2024 Black Canyon 100k
Sarah Bergeron-Larouche (Canada) – 2nd 2022 Quebec Mega Path 52k
Riley Brady – 1st 2024 Javelina 100 Mile
Erin Clark – 4th 2024 Javelina 100 Mile
Mary Denholm – 2nd 2024 JFK 50 Mile
Tara Dower – 1st 2024 Umstead 100 Mile
Abby Corridor – third 2022 CCC
Annie Hughes – third 2023 Hardrock 100
Heather Jackson – 1st 2023 Javelina 100 Mile
Nicole Laughton – 4th 2024 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
Sawyer Magnett – 1st 2024 Hurricane 100k
Emilie Mann (Canada) – 1st 2024 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
Kristina Mascarenas – 1st 2023 McDowell Mountain Frenzy 50k
Jane Maus – 2nd 2024 Javelina 100k
Lauren Puretz – third 2024 Black Canyon 100k
Aroa Sío (Spain) – third 2023 Canyons 100k
EmKay Sullivan – 2nd 2024 Canyons 100k
Devon Yanko – 1st 2024 Coldwater Rumble 100 Mile
Riley Brady identifies as non-binary however competes within the girls’s division.
Full entrant checklist.
Katie Asmuth on the climb to Michigan Bluff, on her option to inserting fourth on the 2023 Western States 100. Photograph: iRunFar/Jaja Ferrer Capili
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