Temperatures had been cooler than regular at Saturday’s Black Canyon 100K close to Phoenix, Ariz., a Golden Ticket race for Western States Endurance Run. The race began only a diploma or two above freezing, and step by step acquired hotter because the day wore on, leading to some record-breaking end occasions. Anthony Costales of Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, took the general win in a brand new course file of seven:32:50 (20 minutes sooner than Sage Canaday’s CR from 2016), enhancing on his fifth-place end final 12 months. Keely Henninger of Portland, Ore., gained the ladies’s race in 8:45:30, three minutes forward of Brittany Petersen’s CR from 2021, and fifteenth total.
Tom Evans of the U.Okay. completed second, 5 minutes behind Costales, with Germany’s Janosh Kowalczyk third, in 7:40:00. All three had been forward of the earlier course file. American professional triathlete Heather Jackson, who is comparatively new to the path operating world, took second within the ladies’s race, in 7:47:59 (additionally underneath the earlier CR), with Meghan Morgan third, in 8:53:52.
The primary and second men and women obtain automated entry to the Western States Endurance Run, to be held June 23 in Olympic Valley, Calif.
Prime Canadians
Elliot Cardin of Bromont, Que., was the quickest Canadian within the 100K race, snagging an eighth-place end in 8:10:22, after ending 14th in 2022. Mercedes Vince, one other relative newcomer to the path scene, was the highest Canadian lady, ending 14th, in 10:04:20.
The 60K race, which occurred Sunday, was gained by Joshua Park (4:37:10) and Mimmi Kotka of Sweden (4:55:46, for sixth total).
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