Chianti, California, Carolina, and Chuckanut gave our sport a little bit of its personal March Insanity pleasure this weekend. Learn up on how stars like Drew Holmen, Marianne Hogan, and Francesco Puppi did in races around the globe.
You can even take a look at our race protection from earlier within the weekend:
Chianti Extremely Path by UTMB – Chianti, Italy
Extremely Path Chianti Castles
The 120-kilometer (75 miles) distance was a Western States 100 Golden Ticket race and already aggressive, however it actually leveled up late within the week. Spain’s Tenerife Bluetrail by UTMB occasion was canceled because of inclement climate, and some high runners shifted to Chianti consequently.
Within the males’s race, between the 74k and 86k checkpoints, Thomas Cardin (France) shook free from Andreas Reiterer (Italy) and went on to win in 9:58. Cardin was 70 seconds higher than Jim Walmsley’s 2025 profitable time. It was Cardin’s longest race to this point, and it got here after a 2025 season that included sixth- and third-place finishes on the Zegama and Mont Blanc Marathons.
Thomas Cardin, 2026 Chianti Extremely Path by UTMB 120k champion. Photograph: Chianti Extremely Path/Marzia Benigna
Reiterer did simply sufficient to beat Vincent Bouillard (France) down the house stretch. Reiterer, the race’s 2024 winner who shifted to this occasion after Tenerife Bluetrail’s cancellation, completed second in 10:06, and Bouillard was third in 10:06 too, however 36 seconds behind Reiterer. It was Bouillard’s second-straight third-place end right here after a 10:27 run in 2025.
Race winner Cardin and third-place finisher Bouillard accepted the Golden Ticket entries to the Western States 100.
The highest 5 males had been:
- Thomas Cardin (France) – 9:58:38
- Andreas Reiterer (Italy) – 10:06:16
- Vincent Bouillard (France) – 10:06:52
- Tobias Geiser (Italy) – 10:21:35
- Baptiste Coatantiec (France) – 10:49:17
Jeff Mogavero was the primary American in sixth at 10:55.
The 2026 Chianti Extremely Path by UTMB 120k males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Andreas Reiterer, 1. Thomas Cardin, 3. Vincent Bouillard. Photograph: Chianti Extremely Path/Marzia Benigna
The ladies’s race was one of many yr’s early highlights, that includes late-race pleasure.
Courtney Dauwalter (U.S.) wasn’t even imagined to be right here. She was earlier signed up for the Tenerife Bluetrail race, like males’s runner-up Reiterer. With solely 15k to run, Dauwalter was nearly 4 minutes all the way down to race-leader Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway), and a minute behind then second-place Rachel Entrekin (U.S.) too.
Courtney Dauwalter on her strategy to profitable the 2026 Chianti Extremely Path by UTMB 120k. Photograph: Chianti Extremely Path/Lorenzo Orlandi
She was nonetheless filled with run, although, and over the ultimate 15k Dauwalter flipped them each and gained the race in 11:31. And Dauwalter was over an hour higher than Fiona Pascall’s 2025 profitable time. Kaspersen was second in 11:33, and Entrekin was third in 11:38. The third-place end marked the tip of Entrekin’s lengthy, multi-year extremely win streak. Dauwalter and Entrekin will race once more in six weeks at Arizona’s Cocodona 250 Mile. Entrekin is the two-time defending champ there. The primary 5 girls all ran sooner than 2025’s profitable time.
Runner-up Kaspersen and fifth-place Lauren Puretz accepted the Golden Ticket entries to the Western States 100.
The highest 5 girls had been:
- Courtney Dauwalter (U.S.) – 11:31:55
- Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway) – 11:33:34
- Rachel Entrekin (U.S.) – 11:38:13
- Gemma Hillier Moses (U.Okay.) – 12:04:30
- Lauren Puretz (U.S.) – 12:25:13
Cheers to the 2026 Chianti Extremely Path by UTMB 120k girls’s podium (left to proper): 2. Yngvild Kaspersen, 1. Courtney Dauwalter, 3. Rachel Entrekin! Photograph: Chianti Extremely Path/Antonio Conotti
Chianti Extremely Path
Males’s 75k winner Andrzej Witek (Poland) ran 5:39, and Elísa Kristinsdóttir (Iceland) scored an upset win over Judith Wyder (Switzerland) within the girls’s race. Kristinsdóttir ran 6:22 to Wyder’s 6:31.
Andrzej Witek, 2026 Chianti Extremely Path 75k champion. Photograph: Chianti Extremely Path/Marzia Benigna
Elísa Kristinsdóttir, 2026 Chianti Extremely Path 75k champion. Photograph: Chianti Extremely Path/Marzia Benigna
Chianti Marathon Trails
The Sunday race ran 46k in distance, and Francesco Puppi (Italy) got here again from a drop ultimately month’s Black Canyon 100k to win in 3:09. Daniel Pattis (Italy) and Alex García (Spain) chased to second- and third-place finishes in 3:11 and three:13.
The 2026 Chianti Marathon Trails 46k males’s podium (left to proper): 3. Alex García, 1. Francesco Puppi, 3. Daniel Pattis. Photograph: Chianti Extremely Path/Marzia Benigna
Girls’s winner Ida Amelie Robsahm (Norway) completed in 3:39, and María La Chica (Spain) was second in 3:42. The third-place girl remained nameless and completed in 3:47.
Ida Amelie Robsahm, 2026 Chianti Marathon Trails 46k champion. Photograph: Chianti Extremely Path/Marzia Benigna
The Massive Alta – Marinwood, California
The three-day occasion had a single loop 50k on Friday, a point-to-point 100k on Saturday, and a Sunday 28k spiked by two large climbs.
50k
At mile 14, David Norris was third and over a minute again of then chief Dan Inexperienced. 9 miles later, Norris had jumped to the lead and was three minutes forward of a now second-place Drew Holmen. Norris and Holmen would maintain their first- and second-place spots the remainder of the best way, and Inexperienced would fall again to fifth as Ryan Montgomery jumped to 3rd. The lads’s podium was David Norris, Drew Holmen, and Ryan Montgomery, with instances of three:43, 3:50, and three:57. This yr’s race was run in sizzling temperatures, and nobody approached Eli Hemming’s 3:19 run from final yr. Norris’s 2026 profitable time would solely have been adequate for fifth in final yr’s sooner race.
Erin Moyer and Klaire Rhodes pushed the primary half of the ladies’s race, and Rhodes dominated the second half. Rhodes gained in 4:12. The time ranks third within the race’s two-year historical past. Helen Mino Faukner acquired forward of Moyer for second in 4:15, and Moyer was third in 4:17. It was Moyer’s second yr because the third-place runner. She ran 4:13 final yr.
100k
Kellen Blumberg moved to two-for-two on the 100k distance. Final yr’s Kodiak by UTMB 100k winner, Blumberg gained the lads’s race right here in 8:18. Rob Molke and Matthew Zupan had been second and third in 8:38 and eight:49.
Lower than six minutes separated the entrance three girls. Robyn Lesh backed up a Tarawera by UTMB 50k win with victory right here in 9:45. Race native Anna Louden chased to second in 9:49, and early chief Sylvie Abel was third in 9:51.
28k
The occasion ended with Ares Studying and Tayler Tuttle profitable the quick course race in 1:51 and a couple of:06, respectively.
Chuckanut 50k – Fairhaven, Washington
It was the race’s thirty second yr, and the purse was $4,000.
Race native Will Murray took the lads’s crown in 3:33. That was seven minutes slower than Francesco Puppi’s 2024 course file time. Noah Dusseau outdid Dylan Flewelling by nearly a minute for second. Dusseau was in at 3:41, and Flewelling got here subsequent at 3:42. The primary 17 males all completed in underneath 4 hours.
Will Murray on his strategy to profitable the 2026 Chuckanut 50k. Photograph: Tad Davis
Andrea Lee upset defending champ Jade Belzberg within the girls’s race. Lee ran 4:19 to Belzberg’s 4:22. Lee was ninth right here in 2024 and third in 2023. Belzberg almost matched her end time from final yr. She was three seconds sooner this yr. Sarah Paxson was third in 4:24.
Andrea Lee en path to profitable the 2026 Chuckanut 50k. Photograph: Tad Davis
Further Races and Runs
Ushuaia by UTMB – Ushuaia, Argentina
One other location, one other weather-affected occasion. The race group stopped the occasion’s two longest races, the 130k and 85k, early because of wind and rain. Runners had been granted finishes at no matter support station they had been stopped at. Practically all the high spots in all the races went to Argentinian runners. Franco Isorno gained the lads’s 130k in 13:31, and the ladies’s winner was declared as Barbara Gassmann, as she was main when she was stopped on the 89k checkpoint. Remigio Huaman Quispe (Peru) went 85k in 9:31, almost an hour higher than everybody else, and Mayra Esparza gained for the ladies in 12:56. Joaquin Narvaez and Anabel Oviedo Zelarayán had been the quickest within the 50k race in 5:10 and 6:04. Full outcomes.
Schiacche Path – Cinque Terre, Italy
The race’s 100k winners had been Aleš Frlic (Slovenia) and Giulia Saggin (Italy) in 12:06 and 14:34, and Luca Arrigoni (Italy) and Giuditta Turini (Italy) gained the 46k in 4:22 and 5:32. Full outcomes.
Ecotrail Paris – Paris, France
The city path race had three extremely distances, and most races completed on the primary flooring of the Eiffel Tower. Corentin Play (France) and Anne Luksengård Mjelva (Norway) gained the 120k in 8:55 and 11:28, and Pierre Fossard (France) and Anna Carlsson (Sweden) had been tops within the 80k in 5:39 and 6:46. Remi Thivolle (France) and Marianne Hogan (Canada) gained the 47k race in 2:59 and three:21. Full outcomes.
Anglo Celtic Plate 100k – Limerick, Eire
The occasion included quite a few nationwide championships inside its race and general winners David Barratt (U.Okay.) and Katie Younger (U.Okay.) ran 6:31 and seven:50. Full outcomes.
Redwood Path Spring 50k – Oakland, California
High spots went to Beverley Anderson-Abbs and Michael Palo in 4:56 and 4:31. Full outcomes.
Rattlesnake Dick 50k – Cool, California
The third-year race was gained by Anthony Fagundes in 4:08. The ladies’s winner completed in 5:10 however is unidentified. Full outcomes.
Anthony Fagundes, 2026 Rattlesnake Dick 50k champion. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Grasslands Path Run – Decatur, Texas
The race was within the Lyndon B. Johnson Nationwide Grassland. The 100-mile winners had been Nick Petterson and Sarah Loch-Take a look at in 17:39 and 23:36, and Baker Herrin and Casey Timme went 7:21 and 10:54 on the entrance of the 50 miler. Full outcomes.
Get Fortunate 50/50 – Canal Fulton, Ohio
The races had been on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Path. The 50-mile winners had been Nigel Wright and Megan Lachner in 6:31 and eight:25, and Brian Polen and Angie Darbyson gained the 50k in 3:48 and 4:02. Full outcomes.
Blackbeard’s Revenge 100 Mile – Corolla, North Carolina
The race ran point-to-point on paved roads with coastal views. Joshua Lecrone and Marina Manson gained in 14:44 and 20:57. Full outcomes.
Cliffs of the Neuse Path 50k – Seven Springs, North Carolina
At Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, Matt Patterson and Silke Sendlhofer gained in 5:05 and 5:09. Full outcomes.
Mount Mitchell Heartbreaker – Outdated Fort, North Carolina
The occasion held two race distances, a 50 miler and a 55k. Devon Brodmyer and Leah Nicholson took high honors within the 50 miler, in 8:17 and 10:06. The 55k champs had been couple Brent Bookwalter in 4:59 and Jamie Bookwalter in 6 hours flat. Full outcomes.
Leah Nicholson (left) and Devon Brodmyer, 2026 Mount Mitchell Heartbreaker 50 Mile champions. Photograph: Rob Redding
Three Days of Syllamo – Fifty-Six, Arkansas
Working for its twenty second yr, the occasion noticed record-breaking temperatures, with highs reaching the 90s Fahrenheit on every day of the three-day stage race. Carley Ellis and Brady Poskin got here away as champs, Poskin for the second time. Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Carley Ellis, the 2026 Three Days of Syllamo champion. Photograph courtesy of the race.
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