We seemed from Japan to Montana, however it was a quieter weekend of path and extremely racing. Take a look at the highlights from The Rut and Run Rabbit Run, and others, on this week’s rundown.
You may as well try our race protection from earlier within the weekend:
Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile – Steamboat Springs, Colorado
The race identify is a play on close by Rabbit Ears Cross, however the race itself is greatest identified for its huge prize purse. There was over $85,000 of money going out to prime finishers, with each the winners of the 100-mile race going dwelling with $20,000.
Girls
Mary Denholm pushed the tempo within the race’s first half, however then the climate rolled in and Denholm left the race after mile 44 and seven:43 of operating. Riley Brady was 20 minutes behind Denholm at that time, however gained the lead when Denholm dropped. Brady put time on everybody for a lot of the remainder of the best way and gained in 20:29. It was, maybe, a little bit of a redemption run for Brady after dropping from this yr’s Western States 100 in June.
Becca Bramley and Mckendree Hickory have been second and third for the entire race’s second half and completed in 21:14 and 21:21. Bramley gained the race’s 50 miler in 2023, and Hickory gained the Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile final yr.
Males
The Wealthy received richer. Jesse Wealthy was the shock $20,000 winner in 17:42. Wealthy has a future of ultrarunning success, however this was actually the largest. He was second on the Run Rabbit Run 50 Mile method again in 2014 and, extra not too long ago, third at The Bear 100 Mile in 2023.
Jon Harrison and JP Giblin, the winner of the 2023 Leadville 100 Mile, have been second and third in 19:06 and 19:20, respectively.
Riley Brady, 2025 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile champion. Picture: Kellie Thompson/Hidden Antelope Images/@hiddenantelope
Jesse Wealthy wins the 2025 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile males’s race. Picture: Kellie Thompson/Hidden Antelope Images/@hiddenantelope
The Rut – Huge Sky, Montana
The three-day, five-race occasion was a sold-out “Montana Mountain Operating Celebration.”
Lone Peak VK
The Friday, September 12, climb was rerouted wanting the summit as a consequence of tram development. The brand new route was the identical utilized in 2023 and was roughly a two-mile race with 2,750 ft of climbing. There was nonetheless $1,000 for the win and $500 and $250 for second and third, although.
The primary 4 ladies have been all from Bozeman. At roughly an hour away, that’s an area race in Montana. Makena Morley was method out forward of everybody else, ending in 38:39, and putting fourth general. She ran 2:30 on the Grandma’s Marathon in Minnesota in June of this yr. Dani Stack and Erika Flowers have been second and third in 46:22 and 47:19.
For the boys, Cam Smith tuned up for the World Mountain and Path Operating Championships in two weeks. He’s certified for 2 races there, and did two races right here too. Smith gained in 34:25. Behind him, Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau and Owen Wright have been subsequent in 35:23 and 37:10.
Makena Morley, the 2025 The Rut VK ladies’s winner. Picture: The Rut/Anastasia Wilde
Cam Smith, the 2025 The Rut VK males’s winner. Picture: The Rut/Anastasia Wilde
28k
Saturday’s 17-mile race was one huge loop with over 8,000 ft of climbing. There was a $9,000 money purse that paid $3,000 to the winners.
Klaire Rhodes ran down early chief Maya Rayle to win the ladies’s race in 3:53. Rayle was second in 3:59, and Lindsay Allison made a few second-half passes to get onto the rostrum third in 4:04. Rhodes gained and set the race’s 50k course file a yr in the past.
Males’s frontrunners Cam Smith, Jackson Cole, and Johen Deleon have been collectively by means of midway, however by the point they hit the Lone Peak summit, Smith had powered into the final word lead. A day after profitable the VK climb, Smith gained right here in 3:03. Cole was second in 3:07, and Deleon completed third in 3:16.
Additional down, Jeff Mogavero bounced again from a drop at UTMB with a fourth-place run, and up to date Imogene Cross Run winner Spencer Keating was sixth. Montana legend Seth Swanson was 14th.
50k
As with the 28k, there was $9,000 in cash right here, too, on the occasion’s final day.
Third within the VK, Erika Flowers doubled again on the lengthy course and took the ladies’s crown in 6:30. She was in entrance from the race’s first checkpoint till the end. Emmiliese Von Avis and Stella Johnson received across the mountain course subsequent in 6:41 and 6:50.
Males’s winner Adam Loomis shook free from Zach Perrin close to the midway level and held off Perrin’s late-race surge to win in 5:13. Perrin was solely 65 seconds behind in second at 5:15. Third-place Florian Winker (Germany) chased them in 5:32. Loomis gained the Twisted Fork 68k in June and the Telluride Mountain Run 40 Mile in August. A yr in the past this weekend, he was second on the Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile, too.
Erika Flowers, the 2025 The Rut 50k ladies’s winner. Picture: The Rut/Anastasia Wilde
Adam Loomis, the 2025 The Rut 50k males’s winner. Picture: The Rut/Anastasia Wilde
Extra Races and Runs
World Athletics Championships – Tokyo, Japan
In 2015, Stella Chesang (Uganda) gained the World Mountain Operating Championships. That was a 13k race within the U.Ok. This weekend, she was twelfth within the World Athletics Championships Marathon in 2:31:13. Victor Kiplangat (Uganda), the boys’s 2017 World Mountain Operating Champion, was fifteenth in 2:11:33 within the males’s marathon and 50k world record-holder CJ Albertson (U.S.) was fortieth in 2:19:25. Within the males’s 10,000-meter race, Oscar Chelimo (Uganda) was 18th in 29:26. Chelimo gained the junior boy’s race on the 2017 World Mountain Operating Championships. Full outcomes.
Ouray 50 Mile – Ouray, Colorado
On a route with greater than 23,000 ft of climbing, Corinne Shalvoy got here inside two minutes of the course file to win the ladies’s race in 15:22. Colin Kelly gained the boys’s contest in 14:15. Full outcomes when accessible.
Corinne Shalvoy braves a snow squall on her technique to profitable the 2025 Ouray 50 Mile. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Colin Kelly, the 2025 Ouray 50 Mile males’s winner
Pine to Palm 100 Mile – Williams, Oregon
The race goes again to 2010, however this was the ultimate Pine to Palm 100 Mile. Annie Behrend gained for the ladies in 21:36, the race’s fifth-fastest end ever, and Daniel Lingenfelter outdueled William Hubert for the boys’s crown. Lingenfelter and Hubert completed in 18:08 and 18:17. Full outcomes.
Run Rabbit Run 50 Mile – Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Alongside the marquee 100 miler, Megan Roche and Ryan Raff gained the 50-mile race in 8:21 and seven:04. Each have been out entrance of their respective fields for the entire race. Raff set a brand new course file and Roche completed fourth general. Full outcomes.
Berkeley Path Journey 50k – Berkeley, California
Kimberly Neely got here away with the ladies’s win in 4:45, whereas Rob Nachtwey gained the boys’s race in 4:22.
Kimberly Neely, the 2025 Berkeley Path Adventures 50k ladies’s winner. Picture courtesy of the race.
Rob Nachtwey, the 2025 Berkeley Path Adventures 50k males’s winner. Picture courtesy of the race.
Snow Mountain Ranch 50k – Granby, Colorado
Angelena Candy and Jeff Urbanski led a small group of finishers in 5:08 and 4:04. Full outcomes.
Shawangunk Ridge Path Run – Excessive Level State Park, New Jersey
The 70-mile path traverses the Shawangunk Mountains from Excessive Level State Park, New Jersey, to Rosendale, New York. Kirsten Rasinske gained the ladies’s race in 24:46:36, and Roland Mann gained the boys’s race in 19:11:09. Full outcomes.
Kirsten Rasinske, the 2025 Shawangunk Ridge Path Run 70 Mile ladies’s winner. Picture courtesy of the race.
Roland Mann, the 2025 Shawangunk Ridge Path Run 70 Mile males’s winner. Picture courtesy of the race.
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