Extremely Pirineu, Extremely Gobi, and the Masters Skyrunning World Championships made for a various weekend lineup.
Begin your week with a fast outcomes rundown.
Extremely Pirineu – Bagà, Spain
The mountain run is in far northeastern Spain, about 4 hours driving time from final week’s world championships in Canfranc, Spain.
Extremely Pirineu 100k
It was a redemption run for Jonathan Albon (U.Okay.). After dropping at UTMB in late August, Albon got here again to win right here in 10:40. He led all the second half, but it surely was shut. Final yr’s fifth-placer Marc Bernades (Spain) was solely minutes again in second at 10:44.
The ladies ran it the identical with a breakaway entrance two. Anna Ongaro (Italy) chased down Mercedes Pila (Ecuador) late to win in 12:58. Pila was simply over six minutes again in 13:05.
Each race winners earned 5,000 Euro. For comparability, that’s simply as a lot because the Path World Championships Lengthy Path winners acquired final week!
Marató Pirineu
Spanish runners dominated each the boys’s and girls’s marathon. The entire high 10 women and men have been Spanish.
For the boys, Miquel Corbera ran 3:46, which was good for an eight-minute win. Marta Pérez led 5 ladies beneath 5 hours in 4:46.
The victors pocketed 2,000 Euro every right here.
Full outcomes.
Chihuahua by UTMB – Chihuahua, México
The primary-year occasion explored the realm’s well-known Copper Canyons on programs that had loads of elevation acquire.
Rarámuri 100 Mile
The course had over 25,000 ft of climbing throughout 97 miles of distance. Operating that lengthy for the primary time, Victor Larocque (Canada) gained the lead close to mile 70 and gained in 21:21. Ladies’s winner Elena Ormon (U.S.) was fourth total and almost 5 hours quicker than some other girl in 24:21.
Weriga 100k
Jupiter Carera Casas (Mexico) rolled the boys’s subject in 10:44. He was virtually an hour forward of his closest challenger. Angelica Carolina Cabrera (Mexico) had an identical lead within the ladies’s race with a 14:38 successful time.
Akáa 59k
Juan Carera Casas (Mexico) equaled his brother along with his personal first-place run. The older Carera Casas gained in 5:49. Josefina Perez (Mexico) was tops for the ladies in 6:51.
Komakali 37k
Males’s winner Ernesto Moreno (Mexico) ran 3:14 for a giant 15-minute hole on second place. The primary 9 finishers have been all from the host nation, after which there was Allison Baca (U.S.) as the primary girl and tenth total. Solely final week, Baca was twenty third on the Path World Championships Lengthy Path race in Spain. This week, she gained the ladies’s race right here in 3:56.
Full outcomes.
Masters Skyrunning World Championships – Karlovo, Bulgaria
It was the third version of the occasion focused to runners over 40 years previous, and it was the primary time that the occasion contested Vertical, SkyUltra, and Sky disciplines. There have been 23 international locations represented.
Vertical
Climate compelled a course change. The rerouted climb, all within the rain, was 3.6 kilometers and with 840 meters of climbing. Christian Hoffman (Austria) and Jessica Brief (Australia) have been the primary up in 30:51 and 39:01.
SkyUltra
Saturday’s lengthy course had a weather-induced course change, too. It was 52k with 3,000 meters of climbing, about eight kilometers and 1,000 meters of climbing lower than deliberate. Luca Arrigoni (Italy) and Sofia Beizel (Impartial) gained the gold medals in 5:52 and 6:53, respectively.
Sky
The occasion’s third day had a revised Sky race with 26k and 1,900 meters of climbing. Hoffman, doubling again from the Vertical, and Viera Slivková (Slovakia) gained in 2:54 and three:33.
Full outcomes (when out there).
Further Races and Runs
Extremely Gobi – Gobi Desert, China
The lengthy course runs for 400k (249 miles) in a continuous, self-navigated, and self-supported style. As of this writing, the present leaders are Cody Poskin and Jun-Yue Zheng (China). Zheng is final yr’s winner and present course report holder. Monitoring.
Cody Poskin main the 2025 Extremely Gobi 400 partway by way of the race. Photograph: Extremely Gobi
Jun-Yue Zheng, main the 2025 Extremely Gobi 400k partway by way of the race. Photograph: Extremely Gobi
Morat-Fribourg – Murten, Switzerland
It was the 91st version of the point-to-point 17k highway race. Swiss runners Dominick Rolli and Oria Liaci have been fourth and third eventually week’s World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race, respectively, and so they have been sixth and second right here. Full outcomes.
Girdwood Marathon – Girdwood, Alaska
Lars Arneson ran 2:55, the path marathon’s first-ever sub-three-hour end result. Scott Patterson was second, and likewise beneath the three-hour mark, in 2:58, and Jeshurun Small was third in 3:07. Shauna Severson gained for the ladies in 3:48, and Lauren Fritz and Bailey Matthys have been second and third in 3:58 and 4:16, respectively. Full outcomes.
Perpetua Coast 50k – Yachats, Oregon
The Dawn Racing occasion had Kyle Terry and Lauren Daniels as its winners in 4:18 and 4:56. Full outcomes.
Kyle Terry, the 2025 Perpetua Coast 50k males’s winner. Photograph: @jamesholk
Lauren Daniels, the 2025 Perpetua Coast 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph: @jamesholk
Saddles 100 Mile – Prescott, Arizona
The third-year occasion topped Johnny Ramos and Lindsay Wagner as this yr’s winners in 17:57 and 22:36. Full outcomes.
Arches Marathon – Moab, Utah
The Mad Moose Occasions race, which additionally hosted a 50k, had Jacob Kobrin and Lucie Rathbun as its 50k winners in 4:27 and 4:40, and Alex Shockley and Christina Turriago gained the marathon in 3:55 and 4:31. Full outcomes.
Jacob Kobrin, the 2025 Arches 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Lucie Rathbun, the 2025 Arches 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
St. George Marathon – St. George, Utah
Kodi Kleven had a foul day at OCC this yr and was solely forty ninth, however she gained the downhill St. George Marathon in 2:28:41. Full outcomes.
The Bear Chase – Lakewood, Colorado
The occasion was held on 12.5-mile loops at Bear Creek Lake Park. Within the 100k, TJ Harms-Synkiew gained for the boys in 10:31, however Beatrice Shea gained total in 10:27. Patrick Fegan and Jennifer McCabe ran 6:43 and 10:01 on the high of the 50 miler, and Finnian Jacobson-Schulte and Hannah Allgood went quick within the 50k. They ran 3:25 and three:46, and Allgood’s time was a brand new course report. Full outcomes.
DC Peaks 50 Mile – Kaysville, Utah
Eli White and Ashley Moline gained the weather-modified 50 miler in 8:43 and 10:23, and Tanner Visnick and Summer season Atwood have been finest within the 55k in 5:47 and 6:43. Full outcomes.
Eli White, the 2025 DC Peaks 50 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Zeb Watson
Ashley Moline, the 2025 DC Peaks 50 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph: Zeb Watson
Twin Cities Marathon – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Courtney Dauwalter went again to the place it began. She completed seventh in 2:49. Andy Wacker ran 48:24 within the accompanying 10-mile race, ending twelfth. Did you see some other path runners within the outcomes? Full outcomes.
Cuyamaca 100k – Julian, California
Operating in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park east of San Diego, Jesus Topete Jr. and Katherina Laan gained in 8:58 and 11:50. Full outcomes.
Jesus Topete Jr, the 2025 Cuyamaca 100k males’s winner. Photograph: Ulysses Chan
Katherina Laan, the 2025 Cuyamaca 100k ladies’s winner. Photograph: Ulysses Chan
Hennepin Hundred – Sterling, Illinois
Operating level to level on the Hennepin Canal State Path, Jim Sweeney rocked a 13:47 100 miler. Sweeney gained right here in 2018, too. Denise Bourassa bounced again from a drop on the Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile a couple of weeks in the past to win the ladies’s race in 18:09. Phil Younger and Lauren Hutchens gained the accompanying 50 miler in 5:58 and eight:37. It was Younger’s fourth straight win on the race. The 50k had Matt Jackson and Emma Tung on the high of its leaderboards in 3:29 and 4:10. Full outcomes.
Oil Creek 100 Mile – Titusville, Pennsylvania
The race was at Oil Creek State Park. Reagan McCoy and Rebecca Kosek gained the 100 miler in 18:30 and 23:44, and Hunter Ksenich and Rhoda Smoker have been tops within the 100k at 9:53 and 12:09. Chad Pakozdi and Julia Mericle led the 50k in 4:16 and 5:48. Full outcomes.
Naturalist 50k – Franklin, North Carolina
Each Devon Brodmyer and Tina Muir set new course information with 4:34 and 4:52 successful occasions. Full outcomes.
Bull Mountain Epic 50k – Dalonega, Georgia
Taylor Hitt set a brand new males’s course report in 4:41, whereas Shelby Palmer gained the ladies’s race in 6:24. Within the accompanying half marathon, Alex Dunbar gained the boys’s race in 1:41, and Gabriela Selovich gained the ladies’s race in 2:02, a brand new course report as nicely. Full outcomes when out there.
Taylor Hitt, the 2025 Bull Mountain Epic 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Shelby Palmer, the Bull Mountain Epic 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
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