The Javelina 100 Mile, two Skyrunner World Sequence races, and a sub-12-hour 100 miler by Zach Bitter are all among the many weekend highlights.
You can too try our race protection from earlier within the week:
Javelina 100 Mile – Fountain Hills, Arizona
The race is likely one of the greatest 100 milers within the nation. The five-lap course, held on the McDowell Mountain Regional Park, is flat and quick, with simply 6,296 ft of climbing. It’s a Golden Ticket race, too, with the primary two men and women incomes automated entry to subsequent 12 months’s Western States 100.
Girls
Tara Dower was second on the Black Canyon 100k at first of the 12 months, however sickness stored her from attending to the Western States 100 end in June.
She obtained that 100-mile end right here, after which some.
Dower ran 13:31 on trails for 100 miles. She received by nearly a full hour, and it was method up on Camille Herron’s previous 14:03 course file from 2021. The time makes Dower the second-fastest North American girl over 100 miles ever, and the win additionally presents an automated entry again into Western States in 2026 for a redemption run.
Operating 100 miles for the primary time, Beth McKenzie was second in 14:31, and Addie Bracy ran an enormous 100-mile private finest for third in 14:45. McKenzie’s time ranks fifth finest ever at Javelina, and Bracy’s time is the race’s eighth finest ever.
Pre-race contenders Valérie Arsenault (Canada) and Careth Arnold didn’t end.
Social media is reporting that Dower and Bracy obtained and accepted the Western States 100 Golden Tickets.
[From 2016 to 2018, Beth McKenzie (née Gerdes) served a two-year doping sanction after testing positive at the 2016 Ironman Australia for ostarine, a prohibited selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).]
Tara Dower, the 2025 Javelina 100 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph: Howie Stern
The ladies’s high 5 had been:
- Tara Dower – 13:31:47
- Beth McKenzie – 14:31:14
- Addie Bracy – 14:45:02
- Lauren Puretz – 14:52:07
- Lucie Rathbun – 15:02:44
Males
He’s not completely a 2025 extremely rookie, however what a breakout 12 months it’s been for Will Murray. The 30-year-old was a shock runner-up at February’s Black Canyon 100k when ending underneath the previous course file. Then he was eighth on the Chuckanut 50k, a late scratch on the Western States 100, and set a brand new course file at Colorado’s Grand Traverse 40 Mile in August.
And now this.
Murray smashed the previous Javelina 100 Mile course file and upset defending champion David Roche. Murray received in 12:10. That’s 33 minutes higher than Jon Rea’s previous course finest from 2023. Murray did it by breaking the race open within the third lap, and now he’s the fifth-fastest North American man over 100 miles, ever.
Second-place Roche, and third-place Canyon Woodward, blew up the previous course file, too. The 2 ran 12:18 and 12:19, respectively. Woodward was nearly 5 minutes again of Roche at mile 90, however closed rather well to make up time on each Roche and Murray.
Social media is exhibiting that Murray and Woodward obtained and accepted the Western States 100 Golden Tickets.
Will Murray, the 2025 Javelina 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Howie Stern
The boys’s high 5 had been:
- Will Murray – 12:10:12
- David Roche – 12:18:06
- Canyon Woodward – 12:19:58
- Chris Andrews – 12:48:39
- Caleb Bowen – 13:09:59
Early frontrunner Gavin Prior didn’t end, and neither did Rajpaul Pannu, who has run 100 miles in 11:52 earlier than because the second-fastest North American man over the gap.
Huge Canine’s Yard Extremely – Bell Buckle, Tennessee
The race began at 7 a.m. on Saturday, October 18 with 72 runners from 40 completely different international locations and ended after 114 hours, almost 5 days later.
Present yard extremely file holder Phil Gore (Australia) received with 114 “yards” or laps, every 4.16 miles in distance, that totaled 475.0 miles over 114 hours. Gore sometimes ran his laps the quickest of the lead group, banking minutes of sleep that added as much as hours when in comparison with the others.
That’s unbelievable, nevertheless it didn’t get to Gore’s 119-lap, or 495.8-mile yard extremely file from June 2025.
Ivo Steyaert (Belgium) and Harvey Lewis (U.S.), each former world record-holders, had been second and third with 113 and 111 yards, respectively, or 470.8 and 462.5 miles.
Jon Noll (U.S.) matched Lewis with 111 yards however a better cumulative time working.
The highest 5 males had been:
- Phil Gore (Australia) – 114 yards, 475.00 miles
- Ivo Steyaert (Belgium) – 113 yards, 470.83 miles
- Harvey Lewis (U.S.) – 111 yards, 462.50 miles
- Jon Noll (U.S.) – 111 yards, 462.50 miles
- Kazuhiro Kawahata (Japan) – 106 yards, 441.66 miles
The race doesn’t have males’s and ladies’s divisions, however Sarah Perry (U.Ok.) set a brand new ladies’s yard extremely file with 95 yards, or 395.8 miles, in 95 hours. That bested Megan Eckert’s former 87-yard, 362.5-mile file.
Eckert herself topped that previous mark too with 92 yards and 383.3 miles right here.
The 4 ladies’s opponents had been:
- Sarah Perry (U.Ok.) – 95 yards, 395.83 miles
- Megan Eckert (U.S.) – 92 yards, 383.33 miles
- Edit Fűrész (Hungary) – 76 yards, 316.66 miles
- Jennifer Russo (U.S.) – 52 yards, 216.66 miles
Sarah Perry on her option to a brand new ladies’s yard extremely file. Photograph: Jacob Zocherman
Extra Races and Runs
2 Peaks Skyrace – Yeongnam Alps, South Korea
Girls’s winner Anastasia Rubtsova (Impartial) blasted the ladies’s area on the 22k course with a 3:12 successful time that positioned her sixth general. That was 20 minutes sooner than everybody else, and it was Rubtsova’s fifth collection win of the 12 months. Natalie Beadle (U.Ok.) and Svetlana Tkachenko (Impartial) had been second and third in 3:32 and three:42. Italians Gianluca Ghiano and William Boffelli had every received two Skyrunner World Sequence races this 12 months, however Nicolás Molina (Spain) took each down right here. Molina ran 2:45 to be a minute higher than Ghiano and Boffelli. Each Ghiano and Boffelli completed in 2:46, with Ghiano three seconds in entrance. Full outcomes.
Anastasia Rubtsova, the 2025 2 Peaks Skyrace ladies’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
Nico Molina, the 2025 2 Peaks Skyrace males’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
Sobrescobio Skyrace – Asturias, Spain
Naiara Irigoyen led a Spanish sweep of the ladies’s podium in 3:23. Patricia Pineda and Greta García got here subsequent in 3:30 and three:32. Irigoyen’s time was a brand new course file. For the boys, Frédéric Tranchand (France) made it two in a row. A month after successful the Path Operating World Championships Brief Path race, Tranchand received his first Skyrunner World Sequence race of the 12 months. As in Spain a month in the past, Tranchand received out over Alain Santamaría (Spain) and Manuel Merilllas (Spain). Merillas had jumped to the lead after a late downhill surge, however he couldn’t maintain it and obtained run down. Tranchand ran 2:40 on the 32k course with 2,100 meters of elevation achieve for a brand new course file. Santamaria and Merillas ran 2:46 and a pair of:49, respectively, for second and third. Full outcomes.
Naiara Irigoyen, the 2025 Sobrescoio Skyrace ladies’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
Frederic Tranchand, the 2025 Sobrescoio Skyrace males’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
Javelina 100k and 31k – Fountain Hills, Arizona
Girls’s winner Katie Asmuth obtained to second general in 8:32, and Jordan Maddocks received for the boys in 8:29. Asmuth’s time was the race’s third-fastest ladies’s time ever. Within the 31k, Rachel Hurley and John Raneri received in 2:47 and 1:59, and Raneri’s end was a brand new course file. Full outcomes.
Autumn Leaves 50/50 – St. Paul, Oregon
Within the 50-mile race, Bethany Pflug was first for the ladies in 9:23, and Casey Kemp received the boys’s race in 6:37. Within the 50k, Christine Haas and Riley Bier received in 5:11 and 4:39, respectively. Full outcomes.
Bethany Pflug, the 2025 Autumn Leaves 50 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph: Lester Tsai
Casey Kemp, the 2025 Autumn Leaves 50 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Lester Tsai
Equalizer Endurance Run – Des Moines, Iowa
In accordance with social media, Zach Bitter ran 11:48 for 100 miles and 11:55 for 101.5 miles on a 1.9-mile loop internet hosting 6-, 12-, and 24-hour races. Bitter, who was within the 12-hour race, holds the 100-mile North American file at 11:19 from 2019. Official outcomes haven’t but been posted, and it’s not clear who received all the opposite races, together with for the ladies. Depart a remark to share extra info on this occasion! Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Door County Fall 50 Mile – Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Erika Miller and Adam Sanchez received the point-to-point street run in 6:41 and 6:02. Full outcomes.
Bridge Burner 50k – Canon Metropolis, Colorado
Natalie Nicholson received the ladies’s race in 4:47, and Isaac Overmyer introduced it residence in 4:16. Full outcomes.
Natalie Nicholson, the 2025 Bridge Burner 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Isaac Overmyer, the 2025 Bridge Burner 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
No Enterprise 100 Mile – Jamestown, Tennessee
The ninth annual race ran as an enormous loop by the Huge South Fork Nationwide River and Recreation Space. Michelle Magagna and Anthony Groft received in 20:27 and 19:31. Each occasions had been new course data for the clockwise path. Full outcomes.
Mammoth Cave 50k – Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
Race winners Crystal Wheatley and Ben Camuel did it in 5:01 and 4:11. Full outcomes.
Cactus Rose 100 Mile – Rocksprings, Texas
Madeline Inexperienced led the ladies’s area in 34:05, and Philip Arneson received it for the boys in 25:08. Full outcomes.
Madeline Inexperienced, the 2025 Cactus Rose 100 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Philip Arneson, the 2025 Cactus Rose 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Stone Steps 50k – Cincinnati, Ohio
Molly Kash and Jonathan Pahren received in 5:21 and 4:56. Full outcomes.
Coldwater Path 50k – Anniston, Alabama
The inaugural occasion had Raven Johnson and Justin Grunewald as its first-year winners in 5:17 and 4:01. Each earned automated entry to subsequent 12 months’s Leadville 100 Mile. Full outcomes.
Womp Womp 50k – Hingham, Massachusetts
Race leaders Holly Proulx and Jason Baker completed in 5:00 and three:54. Full outcomes.
Holly Proulx, the 2025 Womp Womp 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Jason Baker, the 2025 Womp Womp 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Pria Parker, the 2025 Womp Womp 50k non-binary winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Mendon Path Run 50k – Mendon, New York
Girls’s winner Jessie George received the general in 4:22, and Bryan Ruggeri led the boys in 4:27. Full outcomes.
Ozark Path 100 Mile – Steelville, Missouri
Heidi Williams received it for the ladies in 28:16, and Chris Roberts led the sector residence in 19:23. Full outcomes.
Heidi Williams, the 2025 Ozark Path 100 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Chris Roberts, the 2025 Ozark Path 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
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