Between the beginning of the Winter Olympics and the Tremendous Bowl, it was an enormous sporting weekend. There wasn’t a whole lot of path racing, however we’ve obtained a full column of outcomes and sporting information.
Elephant Mountain Path Runs – Cave Creek, Arizona
The Aravaipa Operating occasion had six totally different race distances at Cave Creek Regional Park. The 50-mile and 50k races have been the longest.
50 Mile
Michael Versteeg narrowly completed forward of Kyle Curtin for the boys’s 50-mile win. Versteeg completed in 7:46 to Curtin’s 7:52, and third-place Jeff Browning completed in 8:28. Versteeg was just below 90 seconds slower than Cordis Corridor’s course file from 2024.
Ladies’s winner Rebecca Lewandowski got here via in 9:29, and it was a brand new course finest. She was 29 minutes higher than Kristina Pattison’s previous mark from 2021. Heidi Allan was second in 10:37, and Erin Randleman was third in 11:22.
50k
Barely two minutes separated Mitch Roadnight and Kaleb Stephens in 5:27 and 5:29 in first and second. Patrick McMahon was third in 5:48.
The ladies’s race was even nearer. Caitlin Walters and Bailey Kuechenmeister each ran 6:08, with Walters 34 seconds in entrance. Alicia Judy was third in 6:16.
Rocky Raccoon – Huntsville, Texas
100 Mile
It took a sub-16-hour run to get on the boys’s podium. Nick Petterson ripped via Huntsville State Park in 14:38, and Jordan Taylor and Adam Gloyeske did it in 15:36 and 15:47.
Ladies’s winner Tatiana Rypinski dipped below the 18-hour mark with a 17:59 end, and Val Garcia and Crystal Ross have been subsequent on the rostrum in 18:46 and 19:32.
100k
The three-lap 100k course had Philip Sebastiani roll the competitors in 9:17. Patrick Robertson and Miles Brazil chased to 10:04 and 10:27 in second and third place.
Megan Hoogland gained the ladies’s crown in 11:02, and Natalie Eychaner and Anna Carter have been second and third in 11:52 and 12:09, respectively.
Extra Races and Runs
Monterey Extremely and Fort Ord 50k – Monterey, California
Inside Path’s Monterey Extremely 50 miler had David Sadowski and Jess Wacker on the prime in 7:44 and eight:26. Wacker received by simply 42 seconds over second-place Zoe Ray. And within the Fort Ord 50k, Andrew Walgren received in 3:48, and Kimberly Neely completed in 4:23. Full outcomes.
David Sadowski, the 2026 Monterey Extremely 50 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Jenna Dobson/Let’s Wander Productions
Jess Wacker, the 2026 Monterey Extremely 50 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph: Jenna Dobson/Let’s Wander Productions
Golden Gate Winter 50k – Rodeo Seaside, California
On the Coastal Path Runs race, Maxwell Armenta received for the boys in 5:00, however ladies’s winner Raena Sumiyoshi beat everybody in 4:40. Full outcomes.
Peak to Creek 50k – Cookson, Oklahoma
A small group was led by Tommy Brennan and Chelsey Buckles in 4:57 and 6:17. Full outcomes.
Operating Up For Air – Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah
The unique Operating Up For Air (RUFA) occasion on Grandeur Peak noticed Tyler Valovic and Kelly Halpin win the 24-hour occasion with 14 and 10 laps, respectively. Every lap had 2,560 toes of elevation achieve. Full outcomes.
Tyler Valovic, the 2026 RUFA 24-Hour males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Kelly Halpin, the 2026 RUFA 24-Hour ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
John Dick Memorial 50k – Dousman, Wisconsin
Racing in Southern Kettle Moraine, Mike Dietz and Emily Muhs received in 4:40 and 5:08. Full outcomes.
Vail Winter Uphill – Vail, Colorado
It hardly appears like winter in Colorado proper now, however the nineteenth annual race went 2,200 toes up a ski slope. Jaden McNeese and Kim Dobson ran up first, topping out in 33:41 and 38:21. Full outcomes.
The beginning of the 2026 Vail Winter Uphill run and ski. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Lake of the Woods 50k – Farmersville, Ohio
Gold medals went to Brian Goodwin and Charlotte Huang in 6:36 and 9:08. Full outcomes.
Railway 50k – Fultondale, Alabama
On a rails-to-trails course, Owen Bradley and Linda Royce received in 4:18 and 4:30. Full outcomes.
Uwharrie Mountain Run – Ophir, North Carolina
The 40-mile race was an out-and-back, and the 20 miler ran as a point-to-point, all on singletrack via the Uwharrie Nationwide Forest. Lengthy-course winners Ethan Sleeman and Jordan Hausladen went 6:51 and seven:51, and Benjamin Godfrey and Amy Berkman received the 20 miler in 2:48 and three:26. Full outcomes.
The 2026 Uwharrie Mountain Run 40 Mile males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Nick Bodnar, 1. Ethan Sleeman, 3. Ben Alain. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Mill Stone 50k – Fort Mill, South Carolina
Course-record holder Drew Marshall got here again from two years away to win once more. Marshall didn’t get his 3:26 file however received this 12 months’s race in 3:47. Ladies’s winner Annie Barron completed in 5:57. Full outcomes.
Subsequent Weekend
Tarawera by UTMB 102k – Rotorua, New Zealand
Two-time defending champions Daniel Jones and Ruth Croft are each anticipated again for a title and residential turf protection, and so they’ll face a very worldwide group of challengers. It’s a Western States 100 Golden Ticket race, and the highest two women and men will earn computerized entries to this 12 months’s Western States.
Right here’s simply a number of the prime entrants.
Males
- Ji Duo (China) – 4th 2025 UTMB
- Petter Engdahl (Sweden) – 4th 2025 OCC
- Daniel Jones (New Zealand) – 1st 2025, 2024 & 2023 Tarawera 102k
- Janosch Kowalczyk (Germany) – 1st 2024 Istria 110k
- Eric LiPuma (U.S.) – tenth 2025 Canyons 100k
- Can-Hua Luo (China) – twelfth 2025 CCC
- Jonathan Rea (U.S.) – 1st 2023 Javelina 100 Mile
- Jia-Sheng Shen (China) – eighth 2025 UTMB
- Ruy Ueda (Japan) – 2nd 2025 Chiang Mai 50k
New Zealand’s Daniel Jones wins the 2025 Tarawera by UTMB 102k, his third victory of the race. Photograph: Tarawera by UTMB/Tim Bardsley-Smith
Ladies
- Honoka Akiyama (Japan) – twelfth 2025 Path World Championships Lengthy Path
- Katie Asmuth (U.S.) – 1st 2025 Javelina 100k
- Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) – seventh 2025 UTMB
- Jade Belzberg (U.S.) – 1st 2025 JFK 50 Mile
- Lin Chen (China) – 4th 2025 Black Canyon 100k
- Ruth Croft (New Zealand) – 1st 2025, 2024, 2021 Tarawera 102k
- Beth McKenzie (U.S.) – third 2025 & 2nd 2024 Tarawera 102k
[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).]
New Zealand’s Ruth Croft profitable the 2025 Tarawera by UTMB 102k, her third win and one other course-record end. Photograph: Tarawera by UTMB/Tim Bardsley-Smith
Black Canyon 100k – Mayer, Arizona
Simply take these previous information off the shelf. Deep fields are prone to problem the 7:24:55 and eight:16:18 course information set by Seth Ruhling and Riley Brady a 12 months in the past.
It’s additionally a Golden Ticket race, and the highest three women and men will earn computerized entries to this 12 months’s Western States 100.
Listed below are only a few of the highest entrants.
Males
- Zack Beavin – 2nd 2021 JFK 50 Mile
- Anthony Costales – 1st 2023 Black Canyon 100k
- Coleman Cragun – 4th 2025 Canyons 50k
- Eli Hemming – 4th 2025 Black Canyon 100k
- Craig Hunt – 4th 2024 Black Canyon 100k
- Stephen Kersh – fifth 2024 Black Canyon 100k
- Tracen Knopp – sixth 2024 Black Canyon 100k
- Francesco Puppi (Italy) – 1st 2025 Canyons 100k
- Matthew Seidel – sixth 2025 Gorge Waterfalls 100k
- Blake Slattengren – ninth 2025 Black Canyon 100k
- Hans Troyer – 1st 2025 JFK 50 Mile
- Canyon Woodward – third 2025 Javelina 100 Mile
Eli Hemming led for a lot of the 2025 Black Canyon 100k, however in the end completed fourth. Photograph: World Path Majors
Ladies
- Imogen Ainsworth – 2nd 2025 Leadville 100 Mile
- Shea Aquilano – 2nd 2025 JFK 50 Mile
- Jade Belzberg – 1st 2025 JFK 50 Mile
- Riley Brady – 1st 2025 Black Canyon 100k
- Lin Chen (China) – 4th 2025 Black Canyon 100k
- Tara Dower – 2nd 2025 Black Canyon 100k
- Anne Flower – 1st 2025 Leadville 100 Mile
- Abby Corridor – 1st 2025 Western States 100
- Tabor Hemming – 2nd 2025 Canyons 50k
- Caitriona Jennings (Eire) – 1st 2025 Tunnel Hill 100 Mile, setting a world file
- Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway) – seventh 2023 Black Canyon 100k
- Jennifer Lichter – 1st 2025 Damaged Arrow 46k
- Molly Seidel – 1st 2026 Bandera 50k; Olympic Marathon bronze medalist
Riley Brady identifies as non-binary however competes within the ladies’s division.
Each Jade Belzberg and Lin Chen are registered for each the Tarawera 102k and the Black Canyon 100k.
Riley Brady, the 2025 Black Canyon 100k ladies’s winner. Brady identifies as non-binary and competes within the ladies’s race. Photograph: World Path Majors
2026 Golden Path World Sequence
Eight races throughout three continents will fill the 2026 calendar.
- Could 17 – Zegama Marathon (Spain)
- Could 24 – Ledro Sky Trentino (Italy)
- July 5 – Québec Mega Path (Canada)
- August 1 – Pitz Alpine Glacier Path (Austria)
- August 8 – Sierre-Zinal (Switzerland)
- September 20 – Myoko Path (Japan)
- September 27 – Jinshanling Nice Wall (China)
- October 24 to 25 – Muju Path Grand Finale (South Korea)
The 2026 collection will award 435,000 Euro in prize cash, with 30,000 Euro to the collection winners.
The collection additionally introduced “enhanced out-of-competition (drug) testing all through the season.”
Other than 2021, when COVID-19 journey restrictions disrupted racing worldwide, that is the primary time that there received’t be a Golden Path World Sequence (GTWS) race within the U.S.
Though not a part of the collection, the prize-money-rich Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k in California is on June 21, 2026, giving GTWS runners an opportunity to chase huge cash there in between GTWS races.
In each 2024 and 2025, the collection began in Asia with races in Japan and China. In 2026, the collection will end with three races in Asia, together with the grand finale. Are runners based mostly exterior of Asia prone to make two journeys to Asia, or skip the final two races in lieu of the Grand Finale, or keep in Asia for the entire final three contests?
Sara Alonso, the 2025 Zegama Marathon ladies’s winner. Photograph: Igor Quijano
2026 U.S. Skyrunner Sequence
After a number of years away, a four-race U.S. Skyrunner Sequence can be again in 2026.
- July 4 – Whiteface Skyrace (New York)
- August 1 – Beast of Huge Creek (Washington)
- August 30 – Skeetawk Skyline Scramble (Alaska)
- September 13 – Kismet Cliff Run (New Hampshire)
The Beast of Huge Creek race can be a part of the Skyrunner World Sequence.
The highest three women and men within the nationwide collection will qualify for the worldwide Skymasters competitors.
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- The UTMB World Sequence is doubling up in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains in 2026. The primary-year Snowbasin by UTMB occasion was simply introduced for September 10 to 12 in 2026. The occasion can have 58k and 28k distances at Snowbasin Resort. Notably, this is similar weekend because the legendary Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile, which has taken place since 1980. The UTMB World Sequence additionally hosts Speedgoat by UTMB in Utah on the close by Snowbird ski resort. That occasion is scheduled for July 24 to 26, 2026.
- Cam Smith (U.S.) and Anna Gibson (U.S.) will compete in ski mountaineering within the Olympics on February 21, 2026. Skyrunner Oriol Cardona (Spain) and path runner Lara Hamilton (Australia) can be there, too, for ski mountaineering’s February 19 and 21 Olympic debut. What different path runners are on the Winter Olympics in Italy?
- The Kentucky Louisville’s Lovin’ the Hills 50k and the New York Beast of Burden Winter 100 Mile have been among the many weekend’s race postponements.
- Tarawera 102k and Black Canyon 100k are a pleasant match for Valentine’s Day. Who’s going to return out on prime, and who’s going to be left exterior the Golden Ticket chase?
