Thursday, November 24 is Thanksgiving Day within the U.S., and it’s the largest racing day of the yr. However not a lot on trails or at ultramarathon distances, and never loads occurred over the weekend both. The Extremely-Path Cape City group of races in South Africa although is stepping up as a world-class occasion throughout a number of distances.
Extremely-Path Cape City – Cape City, South Africa
Collectively almost $30,000 went out in prize cash. iRunFar coated the race in an extra Extremely-Path Cape City information article, as nicely.
100 Mile
Hillary Allen (USA) received the first-year 100 miler in 24:55. She gained the lead when midway chief Ragna Debats (The Netherlands, lives in Spain) dropped and constructed a reasonable hole on the remainder of the sphere from there.
Hillary Allen, 2022 Extremely-Path Cape City 100 Mile champion. Picture: Neville Sharwood
South African runners took the subsequent a number of finishes. Kerry-Ann Marshall and Naomi Model had been second and third in 25:39 and 26:28, respectively.
Kerry-Ann Marshall takes second on the 2022 Extremely-Path Cape City 100 Mile. Picture: Neville Sharwood
Naomi Model on the best way to taking third on the 2022 Extremely-Path Cape City 100 Mile. Picture: Neville Sharwood
Males’s chief Fotis Zisimopoulos (Greece) went wire-to-wire for the boys’s win. The 2-time Spartathlon winner completed in 20:48. Reflecting the difficult South African course, that 20:48 end is just slightly bit quicker than what he ran to win this yr’s Spartathlon 153-mile race. Aleksei Tolstenko (Russia) was second in 21:26 and Elov Olsson (Sweden) was third in 22:30.
The highest-three males on the 2022 Extremely-Path Cape City 100 Mile (l-to-r): 2. Aleksei Tolstenko, 1. Fotis Zisimopoulos, and three. Elov Olsson. Picture: Neville Sharwood
100 Kilometer
Camille Bruyas (France) triumphed within the girls’s race in 12:15. She received Grand Path des Templiers simply over a month in the past too, however her profitable time trailed Courtney Dauwalter‘s mark from final yr by 55 minutes.
Camille Bruyas on her option to profitable the 2022 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k. Picture: Neville Sharwood
Mimmi Kotka (Sweden, lives in France) edged Varvara Shikanova (Russia) for second, 12:35 to 12:38. Ekaterina Mityaeva (Russia) completed fourth in 12:51, and Maryline Nakache (France) was a distant fifth in 14:17. Kelly Wolf (USA) didn’t end.
The 2022 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k girls’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Mimmi Kotka, 1. Camille Bruyas, and three. Varvara Shikanova. Picture: Neville Sharwood
It’s not simply the FIFA World Cup that has ties. Hannes Namberger (Germany) and Dmitry Mityaev (Russia) ran the again 70k collectively and completed hand in hand in 10:45. That was nearly an hour again of Jim Walmsley‘s profitable time from 2021.
Dmitry Mityaev (proper) and Hannes Namberger share the win on the 20222 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k. Picture: Neville Sharwood
Drew Holmen (USA) shook free from Jared Hazen (USA) for third in 10:51, and Hazen was fourth in 11:02. Daniel Claassen (South Africa) was fifth in 11:26 for the host nation.
Drew Holmen ending third on the 2022 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k. Picture: Neville Sharwood
55k
Solely 5 seconds separated Landie Greyling (South Africa) and Kim Schreiber (Germany) on the entrance. Each completed in 6:23 with Greyling profitable the 55k race. Sumé van Heerden (South Africa) was proper there too in 6:25 for third.
The boys’s race wasn’t as shut. Robbie Simpson (U.Okay.) gapped everybody with a 5:00 end. Jeshurun Small (USA) was a robust second in 5:13, and Mads Louring (Denmark) received on the rostrum in 5:22.
35k
Even the 35k was internationally aggressive. Simply six minutes separated the entrance three girls with Jasmin Nunige (Switzerland) working to first in 4:24. Rebecca Kohne (South Africa) trailed by three minutes in 4:27 and Dioni Gorla (Germany) received on the rostrum at 4:30.
Martin Dematteis (Italy) scored a win with an even bigger hole within the males’s race. He crossed in 3:31, 5 minutes higher than Collin Kanyimo (South Africa). Janosch Kowalcyzk (Germany) was third in 3:41.
Extra Races and Runs
Quad Dipsea – Mill Valley, California
It was the race’s thirty ninth yr, working as a double out-and-back on the favored Dipsea Path. Full outcomes aren’t but on-line, however social media factors to Emma McCune and Nick Handel as race winners, with Handel protecting the course in 3:55 and McCune’s time as of but unknown. Full outcomes (when accessible).
Nick Handel crossing the road because the 2022 Quad Dipsea males’s winner. Picture courtesy of John Catts.
Emma McCune, the 2022 Quad Dipsea girls’s winner. Picture courtesy of John Catts.
The Derby 50k – Ellerbe, North Carolina
The occasion’s 84 finishers had been led by Eleni Rundle and Brian James in 4:40 and three:57. Full outcomes.
2023 World Mountain and Path Working Championships – U.S. Choice Races
Set that calendar up! The 2021 postponed championships simply occurred in Thailand, and the 2023 championships are scheduled for June 2023 in Austria. USATF Mountain Extremely Path introduced the choice course of for the U.S. workforce for that 2023 occasion.
World champions Allie McLaughlin and Adam Peterman are already assured workforce spots within the Vertical and 80 kilometer path races, if they need it. After that, Vertical workforce spots can be supplied to prime finishers on the Vertical race at April’s Sunapee Scramble in New Hampshire, and Basic Up and Down workforce spots can be supplied to prime finishers on the subsequent day up-and-down race at Sunapee Scramble.
February’s FOURmidable 50k in California and Could’s Breakneck Level Path Marathon in New York will every have two spots on the 40k workforce up for grabs, and April’s Lake Sonoma 50 Mile in California would be the choice race for the 80k workforce.
Name for Feedback
- What path runners and ultrarunners received a Thanksgiving Day 5k in, and how briskly did they go?
- Subsequent weekend’s California Worldwide Marathon (CIM) is predicted to incorporate a bunch of path and extremely males together with: Zack Beavin, Ryan Miller, Zachary Ornelas, Eddie Owens, Rajpaul Pannu, and Cole Watson. The quick course is often a hotspot for U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon qualifying instances. Depart a remark to let everybody know what different path runners and ultrarunners are racing CIM.
- And subsequent weekend’s Brazos Bend 100 Mile in Texas reveals Devon Yanko and Zach Bitter among the many entrants on the flat-and-fast path course.
