We’re so again. It’s a smooth restart after a vacation week off with solely a handful of runs throughout the final weekend of 2025 and the primary weekend of 2026. We hope you had nice holidays!
Throughout the Years – Peoria, Arizona
The six-day occasion featured over a dozen races, happening from December 28, 2025, to January 3, 2026. Every part was run on a 1.42-mile loop.
Sierra DeGroff was the ladies’s and general six-hour winner with 43.7 miles. Girls took the primary 4 general end spots, and Andrea Mucchietto was the primary man with 36.6 miles in fifth place general.
Six-day world-record holder Megan Eckert was the ladies’s and general 12-hour winner with 81.2 miles. Males’s winner Matt Heacock totaled 70.5 miles over the fastened time.
Michael Carson (proper) and Benjamin Niebla (left) battled it out on the 2026 Throughout the Years Final Particular person Standing race to turn out to be the winner and help. Photograph: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Images
Jennie Terflinger led the ladies’s 100-mile race in 27:17, and Rob Raguet-Schofield and Robert Mueller each went sub-16 for the lads with 15:41 and 15:54, respectively, on the end clock.
The 24-hour race additionally featured a lady on the high of the general rankings. Aden-Shiloh Broyles led everybody with 121.3 miles, and Nicholas Metal was the primary man with 105.8 miles.
Over 48 hours, Amy Mower ran 141.0 miles, and Cole Crosby gained for the lads with 224.3 miles. Crosby’s distance sits simply outdoors the top-10 North American all-time listing.
Married couple Melissa and Justin Montague gained the six-day race with 406.3 and 481.1 miles, respectively.
Within the final individual standing race, Michael Carson gained forward of second-place help Benjamin Niebla with 145 laps and 204.5 miles.
Ann Trason, a 12-time “UltraRunning Journal” North American Ultrarunner of the 12 months, extremely pushed a walker for 112.8 miles over the six days. She lives with the problems of rheumatoid arthritis, reportedly went to the occasion with the purpose of protecting 50 kilometers, and surpassed that by quite a bit!
Full outcomes.
The 12-time “UltraRunning Journal” North American Runner of the 12 months Ann Trason lined 112.8 with a walker on the 2026 Throughout the Years Six Day race. Photograph: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Images
Extra Races and Runs
New 12 months’s One Day – San Jose, California
The 24-hour occasion was held on a 1.0-mile loop round Hellyer Park’s Cottonwood Lake. Ayako Murai led the ladies’s group and the general race with 112.4 miles, and Daniel Chang was first for the lads with 102.1 miles. Full outcomes.
Tyler Andrews Treadmill Everesting World Report – Boulder, Colorado
Mountain athlete Tyler Andrews climbed 29,032 ft to match the elevation of Mount Everest in 27.75 miles in 8:17:09 on the La Sportiva retailer in Boulder, Colorado, on December 21. It was a brand new world report. Andrews will chase a Mount Everest quickest identified time this spring from the mountain’s north aspect in Tibet, following a number of years of pace report makes an attempt from the south Nepalese aspect.
Snowdrop Extremely – Missouri Metropolis, Texas
The 55-hour fixed-time race was contested on a flat 0.7-mile asphalt loop. Karen Ellis and Juan Acevedo gained with 155.3 and 200.9 miles, respectively. Acevedo has gained right here yearly since 2022. Full outcomes.
Decision Run 50k – Waco, Texas
Nancy Nichols gained it for the ladies in 7:53, and David Gerada led the lads in 5:35. Full outcomes.
Nancy Nichols, the 2026 Decision Run 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
David Gerada, the 2026 Decision Run 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Yankee Springs Winter Problem 50k – Middleville, Michigan
Darcy Irvine and Jameson Kloeckner gained the Fifteenth-year race in 6:36 and three:54. Full outcomes.
Nice Scorpion 50k – Meridian, Mississippi
Each Bethany Madson and Peter Kazery set new course information in 4:35 and 4:05. Full outcomes.
Get well from the Holidays 50k – Huntsville, Alabama
The longtime Huntsville Observe Membership occasion had 84 finishers, led by Lisa Gates and Carson Miller in 4:45 and three:38. Full outcomes.
Frosty Fifty – Winston-Salem, North Carolina
On the Salem Lake Marina, Anna Buser and Chris Raulli gained in 4:09 and three:13. Regardless of being just a few years away from the game, Rauli ran two minutes quicker than he did when ending second on the USATF 50k street championships method again in 2018. Full outcomes.
Misplaced Coast 55k – Whitethorn, California
The free and unsupported race was delayed 24 hours attributable to a litany of storm warnings within the space on Saturday, however Lanore Bergenske and Jazmen McGinnis tied as first ladies in 8:51, and Kevin Brightbill gained for the lads in 6:35.
The 2026 Misplaced Coast 55K winners (left to proper): Kevin Brightbill, Lanore Bergenske, and Jazmen McGinnis (tied for first ladies). Photograph: Kevin Brightbill
Name for Feedback
New 12 months’s Eve street races are common in Europe. Path runners Jan Torrella (Spain) and Hannes Namberger (Germany) ran 15:11 at Spain’s Sant Silvestre de Berga 5k and 15:09 at Germany’s Aschauer Vorsilvesterlauf 5k, respectively. Namberger’s race was just a few days earlier than New 12 months’s Eve, however what different European path runners took to the street to complete the 12 months?
