“For purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain …” Yep, the tune “America the Lovely” is about Pikes Peak in Colorado, and that’s the place our eyes have been this weekend for the Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon. That’s, till Aleksandr Sorokin made us look away and gasp at his world-record-setting efficiency on the IAU European 24-Hour Championships. There was additionally the prize-money-rich Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile, amongst different highlights. This weekend hit onerous!
Pikes Peak Ascent – Manitou Springs, Colorado
The Golden Path World Sequence got here to Colorado, the place I’ve spent years dwelling! It’s so cool for me to see the worldwide runners and their Colorado experiences shared on social media. I imply, one’s pleasure over driving Skyline Drive in Cañon Metropolis, for example, is enjoyable! It’s simply totally different when it’s a spot you’re aware of, and I’m excited for everybody to see these landscapes and this mountain.
These runners didn’t come fully for a trip although and Saturday’s all-uphill race climbed 13.3 miles and with 7,815 toes of elevation acquire, all the way in which to the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak.
The race moved from its conventional August date to a month later, and for the primary time ever, runners have been required to hold a jacket and water bottle.
Prize cash went 10 deep with $3,000 to every winner. There have been additionally course document and time bonuses up for grabs, although none have been earned.
You can even learn extra in our 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent outcomes article.
Ladies
Pre-race favourite Nienke Brinkman (The Netherlands, lives in Switzerland) went to the entrance early. She was practically a minute forward of then-fourth-place Maude Mathys (Switzerland) on the prime of the “W’s” part, 3.1 miles into the Saturday race. At Barr Camp, mile 7.6, Brinkman was operating 95 seconds forward of Mathys. And Sophia Laukli (USA) and Allie McLaughlin (USA) have been between Brinkman and Mathys at these factors, operating second and third. That breakaway group of 4 was over three minutes in entrance of everybody else at that Barr Camp 7.6-mile break up.
As soon as the race moved above treeline, Mathys was the quickest. She moved into second place and ate into Brinkman’s lead, however didn’t get all the way in which there.
Brinkman summited first in 2:27:26. Mathys adopted in 2:28:40. Laukli was third in 2:34:20 and McLaughlin was fourth in 2:39:40.
Nienke Brinkman, the 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent ladies’s champion. Photograph: Golden Path Sequence|Pikes Peak Ascent|Jordi Saragossa
Brinkman and Mathys posted the second- and third-fastest climbs ever, trailing solely Kim Dobson‘s 2:24:58 course document from 2012.
When Mathys gained the 2019 Pikes Peak Marathon, she summited in 2:29:03.
(In 2015, Mathys obtained a warning with out suspension from the Disciplinary Chamber for Doping Instances of Swiss Olympic for 2 optimistic assessments for clomifene [previously clomiphene] after it was decided that she was mistakenly taking the drug with out first acquiring a World Anti-Doping Company Therapeutic Use Exemption.)
The remainder of the highest 20 included:
5 – Kim Dobson (USA) – 2:40:45
6 – Blandine L’hirondel (France) – 2:44:17
7 – Bailey Kowalczyk (USA) – 2:46:43
8 – Élise Poncet (France) – 2:47:30
9 – EmKay Sullivan (USA) – 2:48:37
10 – Sara Alonso (Spain) – 2:49:21
11 – Marcela Vasinova (Czech Republic) – 2:49:29
12 – Tabor Hemming (USA) – 2:52:26
13 – Sarah Marie Guhl (USA) – 2:57:19
14 – Kimber Mattox (USA) – 2:58:06
15 – Lauren Puretz (USA) – 3:04:10
16 – Iris Pessey (France) – 3:04:51
17 – Hirut Guangul (USA) – 3:05:43
18 – Samantha Diaz (USA) – 3:05:43
19 – Grace Staberg (USA) – 3:07:16
20 – Simone Brick (France) – 3:11:25
Males
Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) referred to as his shot earlier within the week. He set a brand new quickest recognized time on the Manitou Incline, a well-liked 0.88-mile-long all-stairs climb that positive aspects 2,000 toes. He completed that section in 17:21, bettering Joseph Grey‘s 17:45 from 2015.
However nonetheless, Bonnet had twice raced the marathon right here, by no means summiting sooner than 2:16.
Simply 3.1 miles into the race Bonnet was the chief with Grey 4 seconds behind. 7.6 miles into the race that hole had grown to 39 seconds. From there, Bonnet remained out of attain for the remainder of the sphere. He completed in 2:07:02. That’s the quickest profitable time since Grey ran 2:05:28 in 2016, nevertheless it does path Seth Demoor‘s 2:06:44 break up from final 12 months’s marathon race.
Rémi Bonnet, the 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent males’s winner. Photograph: Golden Path Sequence|Pikes Peak Ascent|Jordi Saragossa
Daniel Osanz (Spain) ran down (up?) Grey for second, ending in 2:08:42, and Grey was third in 2:09:13.
The remainder of the highest 20 included:
4 – Eli Hemming (USA) – 2:09:54
5 – Francesco Puppi (Italy) – 2:12:56
6 – Chad Corridor (USA) – 2:14:02
7 – Anthony Felber (France) – 2:15:19
8 – Sylvain Cachard (France) – 2:16:35
9 – Henri Aymonod (Italy) – 2:20:13
10 – Ruy Ueda (Japan) – 2:20:58
11 – Morgan Elliott (USA) – 2:21:39
12 – Brian Whitfield (USA) – 2:22:16
13 – Quentin Meyleu (France) – 2:22:38
14 – Andy Wacker (USA) – 2:23:06
15 – Cam Smith (USA) – 2:23:57
16 – Roberto Delorenzi (Italy) – 2:25:47
17 – Matt Chrabot (USA) – 2:26:50
18 – Bart Przedwojewski (Poland) – 2:27:02
19 – David Norris (USA) – 2:29:31
20 – Nicholas Turco (USA) – 2:29:42
Twenty males broke the two:30 mark for this best-ever discipline, however Matt Carpenter‘s course document break up from the 1993 marathon stays utterly out of attain.
Pikes Peak Marathon – Manitou Springs, Colorado
Sunday’s roundtrip race up and down Pikes Peak, 13.3 miles up and 12.9 miles down, wasn’t a part of the Golden Path World Sequence and was a little bit of a B race to the ascent. The day earlier fields dwarfed these of the marathon, however come on, isn’t a run up and down a mountain like Pikes Peak superior?
Prize cash went 5 deep with $2,000 to every winner.
Ladies
Race native Kristina Mascarenas, racing the marathon for her fifth time, hit the highest in 3:03, her quickest climb ever, and completed first in 4:37. Mascarenas gained the 2017 marathon in 4:38.
Brittany Charboneau was second in 4:50 off of a 3:11 ascent, and Peyton Thomas was third in 5:19.
Males
It was shut on the prime, Noah Williams summited in 2:17 to Jonathan Aziz‘s 2:19, and the primary six males have been all underneath 2:30. And it was nonetheless shut on the backside!
Aziz raced down in 1:20, three minutes higher than Williams. Aziz completed first in 3:40:41 and Williams was second 46 seconds later in 3:41:27. Aziz took a couple of stitches on the chin post-race too.
Cam Smith was third in 3:50, and he summited in 2:25, simply over a minute slower than his time within the day prior’s Ascent.
IAU European 24-Hour Championships – Verona, Italy
Verona is likely to be recognized for Romeo and Juliet, however Aleksandr Sorokin (Lithuania) and Patrycja Bereznowska (Poland) have been the town’s stars this weekend.
It was the occasion’s twenty eighth 12 months and it was the championship’s twenty third 12 months. The race occurred on a 0.95-mile loop.
Ladies
Bereznowska topped the ladies’s group with 158.3 miles. Stephanie Gicquel (France) and Gorzata Pazda-Pozorska (Poland) have been very shut in second and third with 157.35 and 155.5 miles, respectively.
Males
Sorokin broke his personal 24-hour world document. His splits on the way in which have been 2:50 for the marathon, 6:50 for 100k, and 11:06 for 100 miles. On the 24-hour mark, he had totaled an unimaginable 198.6 miles. That’s 7:15 per mile. His previous document was 192.2 miles. That’s simply wonderful. It’s simple to lose monitor of his information, however along with once more breaking the 24-hour world document, Sorokin additionally holds the six-hour, 100k, 100-mile, and 12-hour world bests. Try our information article about Sorokin’s new 24-hour world document.
Aleksandr Sorokin after setting the 24-hour world document. Picture: Marius Antanaitis display screen seize from race video
Andrzej Piotrowski (Poland) totaled an excellent 186.7 miles for second and Marco Visintini (Italy) was third with 179.2 miles. Piotrowski’s distance ranks fourth quickest ever.
Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile – Steamboat Springs, Colorado
The tenth annual race had a $75,000 prize purse with $15,000 to every of its winners. That’s simply unimaginable. Cash stretched seven deep.
iRunFar coated a lot of the race dynamics individually.
Ladies
Annie Hughes for the win, once more! The 24-year-old gained the Coldwater Rumble 100 Mile in January, gained the Cocodona 250 Mile in Could, gained the Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile in July, and now gained the Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile! She did this one in 21:26. She’s registered for October’s Javelina Jundred Mile too.
Tara Dower edged Mary Baughman for second in a really shut race, 23:08 to 23:10.
Annie Hughes, 2022 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile champion. Photograph: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Males
I’ve been listening to all of it 12 months lengthy, be careful for Richard Lockwood, and he leveled up. Lockwood dominated the race’s second half and gained by over an hour in 18:01. One-hundred-mile man Arlen Glick overtook 100-mile rookie Nick Elson late for second, 19:04 to 19:12.
Richard Lockwood, 2022 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile champion. Photograph: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Hughes teamed with Twelfth-place male Peter Mortimer to win a further $5,000 as a part of the two-person workforce competitors too.
Tor des Géants – Courmayeur, Italy
Tor des Géants is the OG 200-mile race. Formally it goes for 330 kilometers (205 miles) with an infinite 24,000 meters (78,740 toes) of elevation acquire.
Ladies
Sabrina Verjee (U.Okay.) gained the ladies’s race in an astounding 80:19. The course was totally different than previously, however it seems that the race will acknowledge the time as a brand new course document. Verjee was a lot sooner than anybody else earlier than, and is the primary feminine finisher underneath 85 hours.
Silvia Trigueros (Spain) was the race’s longtime chief and chasing her fourth win, however couldn’t match Verjee late and completed second in 84:58. Sandrine Béranger (France) was third in 89:40.
Males
Jonas Russi (Switzerland) gained the lads’s race in 70:31. Russi was stated to have slept solely 17 minutes throughout the entirety of the race. Additionally, he extremely was eighth at UTMB solely two weeks earlier. Simone Corsini (Italy) and Andrea Macchi (Italy) have been second and third in 75:27 and 76:43, respectively.
Defending champ and course document holder Franco Collé (Italy) didn’t end.
Heavy snow impacted the top of the race and compelled the race’s stoppage, together with the longer 450k race too.
Extra Races and Runs
Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race – Queens, New York
The world’s longest licensed highway race began on September 4 and runs for 52 days. Runners have been ringing the 0.55-mile city loop and have to hit nearly 60 miles per day to make 3,100 miles earlier than the occasion’s finish. Huang Lan Yang (Taiwan) is first lady, and Andrea Marcato (Italy), the winner of the 2021 race, presently leads the lads’s race. The pair have coated some 864.9 and 1,005.9 miles by means of 14 days. Scoreboard.
EMU 6-Day – Balatonfured, Hungary
Balatonfured; I used to be there final month! However I undoubtedly didn’t run for six days in a row like this group. That is the foremost six-day race on the planet. Zsuzsanna Maráz and Gábor Rakonczay, each of the host nation, gained with 472.6 and 524.5 miles, respectively. Maráz gained Spartathlon in 2018 and 2019. Rakonczay is a little bit of an excessive athlete with numerous transatlantic expeditions amongst his adventures. Full outcomes.
4 Peaks Mountain Problem – Ficksburg, South Africa
The 24k race round Moolmanshoek Personal Sport Reserve topped Nicolette Griffioen and Collin Kanyimo as race winners in 3:24 and a pair of:50. Griffioen was a repeat winner and improved her course document from a 12 months in the past by 20 minutes. Kanyimo, final 12 months’s third placer, gained an in depth race by simply over two minutes. Full outcomes (when accessible).
Collin Kanyimo, the 2022 4 Peaks Mountain Problem males’s winner. Photograph: Craig Kolesky/Nikon
Nicolette Griffioen on her solution to profitable the 2022 4 Peaks Mountain Problem. Photograph: Craig Kolesky/Nikon
Path des Dents du Midi – Vérossaz, Switzerland
Penelope Freedman (USA) and Jean-Philippe Tschumi (Switzerland) gained the 31k mountain run in 2:59 and a pair of:13. Later outcomes included Individuals Maria Dalzot and Brian Tinder in third and ninth, respectively. Full outcomes.
U.S. Journey Racing Affiliation Nationwide Championship – Bishop, California
Max King was a part of the second-place coed workforce, ending the race in 27:08. Certainly there have been another ultrarunners collaborating too that we haven’t recognized? Depart a remark to let everybody know! Full outcomes.
Noble Canyon 50k – Pine Valley, California
Jade Belzberg and Gabriel Kline have been champs in 4:54 and 4:00. Full outcomes.
Flagstaff to Grand Canyon Stagecoach Line – Flagstaff, Arizona
Michelle Blackard and Paul Gesl led the 100-mile race in 25:03 and 20:52, and Rachel Buzzard and Caleb Schiff topped the 55k in 5:17 and 4:56. Full outcomes.
Golden Leaf Half Marathon – Aspen, Colorado
Lindsey Knast and Galen Burrell raced from Snowmass to Aspen the quickest in 1:50 and 1:39, respectively. Full outcomes.
Hocking Hills Indian Run – Logan, Ohio
Karina Zapiecki and Harvey Lewis gained the 60k run by means of Hocking Hills State Park in 6:54 and 5:02, respectively. Lewis is only a few weeks out from a return journey to Huge’s Yard Extremely. Full outcomes.
Barkley Fall Basic 50k – Wartburg, Tennessee
Andrea Larson and Aaron Bradner endured the Frozen Head State Park course the very best, profitable in 10:02 and 9:28. It was Bradner’s ninth end of this race. He was second a 12 months in the past. Full outcomes.
Grindstone 100 Mile – Swoope, Virginia
It was the race’s fifteenth 12 months and Shannon Cebron and Daniel Frank have been race winners in 24:25 and 18:29. Full outcomes.
Georgia Jewel 100 Mile – Dalton, Georgia
Shannon Wheeler-Deboef and Zachary Nelson have been victors in 22:59 and 22:43. Simply 21 minutes separated the primary 4 total finishers. Full outcomes.
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