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Mason Coppi danced at the Speedgoat 50K start, then won in 5:15:20. Coppi moved into first after mile 18, passing early leader Anthony Williams; the official results have Williams second in 5:19:37 and Cam Smith third in 5:32:33, with Caleb Olson fourth in 5:35:23. Lauren Gregory won the women’s race in 5:56:04. She placed sixth overall and became the second woman under six hours on the current course, followed by Klaire Rhodes in 6:21:34 and Leah Yingling in 6:27:03. The 30K changed hands late in both races: the official results have Carmen Bango winning in 3:47:26 after erasing Janelle Day’s mile-13 lead, with Day second in 3:50:30 and Rosemary Winterton third in 3:54:32; Adrian MacDonald won in 3:03:59 after passing Joseph DeMoor and Sean McCauley in the second half, followed by McCauley in 3:06:34 and DeMoor in 3:10:52.
Never Summer’s 60K rewrote both course-record lists. Eli Hemming won in 5:27:44, with Calbert Guest also under the old men’s mark in 5:55:59 and Austin Gliottone third in 6:15:00. Eva Keohane won in 6:42:26, followed by Lucy Bartholomew in 7:01:22 and Imogen Ainsworth in 7:12:17; Keohane and Bartholomew both beat the previous women’s best. In the 100K, Evan Christopherson led throughout and won in 11:51:28, followed by Tripp Hipple in 12:36:19 and Jon Christensen in 13:17:01. Liv Taber was fourth overall and first woman in 13:18:25, with Megan Drake second in 13:38:16 and Taylor Bacon third in 14:37:37.
Anna Troup won the Lakeland 100 for the second time. Troup finished the Lake District loop in 25:39:33, 24th overall, with Leonie Ansems de Vries second in 26:05:26 and Shirley Murray third in 26:09:26. Mark Darbyshire won overall in 18:51:31, followed by Caspian James in 19:39:38 and Will Howard in 20:44:15. At the other end of the weekend, John Wade closed out the 100-mile finishers, and Elizabeth Coley and Fiona Morrison crossed together as the final Lakeland 50 finishers.
Pete Behrends won the Crazy Mountain 100, and Adam Campbell returned to racing in second. The men’s podium was Behrends in 22:46:25, Campbell in 25:38:02, and Nick Kuneman in 26:06:33. Sponsor Arc’teryx framed Campbell’s finish as his return to racing and credited Cassie Shirley and Connor Koch for supporting him through the 100-mile, 23,000-foot course. Heat shaped the day; the official results have Blair Speed winning the women’s race in 28:29:03, with Annie Hughes second in 28:40:29 and Krissy Moehl third in 28:47:48.
Burning River marked its 20th running with Jordan Lafreniere and Aiman Scullion separated by 11:34. The preliminary official 100-mile results have Lafreniere first in 15:34:45, Scullion second in 15:46:19, and Alec Cline third in 16:36:01. Stacey Billig leads the women’s results in 19:18:38, followed by Stephanie Capilongo in 22:11:17 and Rachel Eckert in 22:49:57. The preliminary 50-mile results have Caleb Bowen first in 6:06:06 and HollyAnn Swann the women’s winner in 7:02:33.
Bucovina Ultra Rocks brought the UTMB World Series to Romania for the first time. Elena Alexandra Ungureanu and Alejandro Lopez Garcia won the 114K in 21:14:22 and 16:12:30. Therese Årvik and Miguel Arsenio won the 72K in 10:17:27 and 8:01:29, while Ioana Madalina Amariei and Karol Siola took the 48K in 5:49:24 and 4:56:33. On Sunday, an adaptive-athlete team completed Rumble Rock together.
Women took prominent overall places at two steep races in the Pacific Northwest. The Buckin’ Hell 50K in North Vancouver’s North Shore mountains packs 8,530 feet of climbing, and Alexandra Augsten won outright in 5:45:09; Evan Livingstone was first man and second overall in 5:50:36. At the White River 50, Jessica Quinn reached the finish third overall and first woman in 9:16; Justin Daniels won in 8:24. Natalie Malicki and Sean Richardson took the accompanying 50K in 5:38 and 4:34.
Katharina Hartmuth finished the Bob Graham Round in 14:11:58. The Bob Graham Club now lists Hartmuth as the holder of the fastest women’s round at 14:12. Her exact time, reported in her own post, is 22 minutes and 28 seconds faster than Beth Pascall’s 14:34:26 from 2020. Pascall joined Hartmuth for leg two, and Hartmuth called the round a true team effort.
The Ptarmigan Fire closed the northernmost section of the Pacific Crest Trail. The Pacific Crest Trail Association says the closure runs from Methow Pass to the Northern Terminus, including Harts Pass, and hikers and campers should leave the section immediately. The page marks the trail closed while an official closure order is still forthcoming.k
Zach Bitter said testing after his recent blood clot found that he carries the inherited Factor V Leiden mutation. In his update, Bitter said his final hematology visits ruled out the scenarios that had worried him most. He expects to remain on blood thinners for six months and revisit longer-term treatment at the end of the year, but said his outlook still supports a return to full-strength endurance training. He’s waiting for a few more weeks of running before choosing another event.
Kilian Korth says he is financially better off than he expected to be as a professional ultrarunner and has never been drug tested. In a new essay, he writes, “I am maximally cynical regarding the sport as a whole but maximally charitable regarding individuals.” Korth calls the sport’s incentives badly misaligned with clean competition and says he suspects serious doping is widespread. He also discloses that he is friends with Mike McKnight and Cameron Hanes, argues their BPC-157 use should not be equated with proven EPO use, and asks whether trail running can build stronger testing without adopting the full burden of Olympic-style testing.
The Olympic Mountains 100K opened spots for runners displaced by the Oregon Cascades cancellation and became a new Western States qualifier. Western States now lists the August 15 race with a 21-hour qualifying standard. Alpine Running said Freedom Ultra and Lean Horse Ultra also offered to accommodate displaced runners.
Tierra Libre Run opened a Trail Coaching Fund for coaches and emerging coaches of color. The program covers UESCA’s $599 Ultrarunning Coach Certification and adds a four-month cohort, mentor feedback, and supervised practice with two consenting Athlete Fund runners. Applications close August 15; applicants must be at least 18, identify as a person of color, and not have already completed the same certification.
Stephanie Cloutier finished second overall at the Grand Island 50K. Great Lakes Endurance reported her 4:11:55, the course’s second-fastest women’s time; Nick Dunkle won overall in 4:05:38. In the accompanying marathon, Jim Engel finished in 5:54:28 at age 71 and extended a streak that includes every edition of the race.
Sierra DeGroff said her Denali 135 win helped loosen her grip on the idea of a running identity. In a new reflection, she wrote that she chose Denali because the race made her happy after years of concentrating on one distance and event. DeGroff won the June race in 28:57:56 and finished fourth overall, lowering the previous women’s course best of 31:21:47 by two hours, 23 minutes, and 51 seconds.
The Kilian Jornet Foundation and Wild Me are trying to make outdoor learning an everyday habit. Their new partnership includes a 300-day outdoor challenge, a 100-day version for schools, and training and support for teachers who want to move more learning beyond the classroom.
Lastly, congratulations to Joanna Fortier and Eric LiPuma. The trail-running couple married Saturday in Littleton, New Hampshire.
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Ken
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