For the primary time, a race within the U.S. has been chosen to be a UTMB World Collection Main. The Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB, held April 28–29, 2023 in Auburn, Calif., will now give U.S. and Canadian athletes a closer-to-home alternative to qualify for the UTMB World Collection Finals, made up of the legendary UTMB (100 miles), CCC (100K) and OCC (50K) races at UTMB Mont-Blanc in Chamonix, France.
Three UTMB World Collection Majors are held every year, and these pinnacle occasions throughout the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific area give out double the Operating Stones to all finishers, used within the UTMB World Collection finals lottery. Every main race additionally mechanically qualifies 225 runners for the UTMB finals. Age-group winners and the highest 10 female and male runners within the 100M, 100K and 50K classes achieve computerized qualification to the respective races at UTMB Mont-Blanc.
Operating Stones are the equal of lottery tickets that go towards incomes a spot in one of many UTMB World Collection races. Just one Operating Stone acquired previously two years is required to enter the lottery–Operating Stones are cumulative, don’t have any expiration date, and every Operating Stone provides you a further likelihood to be drawn.
Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB can be a golden ticket race for the Western States Endurance Run (WSER), with the highest two female and male finishers in every distance securing their place on the beginning line of the next 12 months’s WSER. The race is a WSER qualifier for 2024, with all runners who full the 100-mile distance in beneath 36 hours and the 100K distance in 20 hours incomes a ticket for the WSER lottery.
Chaz Sheya, race director and founding father of the Canyon Endurance Runs, shared that they’re thrilled that the race is now America’s main. “It’s an honour to be one among three majors within the UTMB World Collection, with double Operating Stones and plenty of extra entries to the world finals in Chamonix,” they mentioned. ” I’m additionally excited to share the historical past of the Canyons and the Western States path, the place modern-day mountain extremely path working began.”
Canyons Endurance Runs begins within the historic gold-rush city of Auburn, Calif., within the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Runners within the 100-mile race will traverse among the most scenic and rugged sections of the WSER path as they climb 7,300 metres of elevation, passing by the notorious WSER river crossing at Rucky Chucky. All 100-mile finishers might be awarded eight Operating Stones.
The 100K race boats greater than 4,800 metres of elevation achieve and can award six Operating Stones, whereas the 50K race (1,700 metres of elevation) will earn runners 4 Operating Stones. Finishers of the 25K distance (greater than 853 metres) will earn two Operating Stones.
To be taught extra about The Canyons Endurance Run and register, head right here. Extra data on Operating Stones and the UTMB World Collection qualifying course of might be discovered by clicking right here.
