It’s indeniable: ultratrail legend Courtney Dauwalter is making historical past, race after race. On Saturday, Dauwalter smashed the course report (previously 9:08, set by Stephanie Howe in 2017) at Bandera 100K, in Bandera, Texas. Dauwalter ran 8:59 and is the primary girl to run a sub-nine-hour time on the infamously robust course, ending sixth total.
“A path of rugged and brutal magnificence the place every little thing cuts, stings, or bites,” touts the Hoka Bandera Endurance Path web site. The race is a Western States Endurance Run (WSER) qualifier and a golden ticket race, that means the highest two women and men earn computerized entry into the 2023 race.
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Dauwalter had an astonishing season in 2022, setting course information at Hardrock 100, Madeira Island Extremely-Path, and Diagonale des Fous. She’s begun 2023 similarly, leaving us all eagerly anticipating what, precisely, will occur at this 12 months’s WSER.
Pheonix’s Nicole Bitter adopted Dauwalter for second place (and a WSER golden ticket) in 10:04, and Florida’s Careth Arnold rounded out the rostrum in 10:20.
Canadian athlete Katherine Quick, now based mostly in Maui, claimed a stellar fifth place, operating 10:21 in a frightening discipline. Quick, who says her present aim (one thing she’s been working with coach David Roche on) is striving for constant pacing at longer distances, excelled at precisely that.
“It takes a very long time to construct the boldness, power and expertise required to be one of the best, however step one is to be taught the way it feels to efficiently end a 100K race nonetheless operating,” Quick explains, sharing that the race was an entire lot of Sort-2 enjoyable, as anticipated.
“The toughest half was the savage chafing acquired (there was blood), and one of the best half by far was attending to run with the one and solely Courtney Dauwalter–she was so extremely humble and candy,” added Quick.
Males’s race
The boys’s race had a couple of sizzling contenders heading into the occasion and had a shifting main pack, however Carbondale, Colo.-based Jeff Colt took the win in 8:23. Colt had taken fifth and third in two earlier Bandera 100ks and was aiming for a win within the 2023 version.
Colt ran to eleventh ultimately 12 months’s WSER and had initially deliberate on racing Bandera with the aim of incomes the elusive golden ticket, however says that the camaraderie of racing alongside his teammates on the U.S. World Mountain and Path crew in Thailand in 2022 modified his perspective on sport “greater than any single race” and has him reconsidering 2023 targets. He has but to simply accept the WSER entry.
“I had my dad, ‘Race Day Rick’ on the market as my crew. He was nice about dowsing me with chilly water and giving me my bottles as shortly as potential,” stated Colt.
“A lot of the day, I spent fascinated by my family members and the way a lot they assist me. Discovering power within the love and lightweight of others is the best race ability I’ve,” he added.
Boulder’s JP Giblin adopted Colt in 8:29, and Canyon Woodward of Washington State crossed the road for third in 8:35.
For full outcomes of the HOKA 2023 Bandera 100K Endurance Run in addition to the 50K and 25K occasions, head right here.
