It was a quiet path operating and ultrarunning begin to 2o25. That mentioned, there have been quite a few smaller races nonetheless taking place across the U.S.
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Races and Runs
Del Dios Path Race 50k – Escondido, California
The race of the Gods at Lake Hodges topped Dan Friedman and Marie Younger as winners in 4:18 and 4:16. Younger was each the ladies’s and general winner. Full outcomes.
San Tan Scramble 50k – Queen Creek, Arizona
Race winners Jordan Bramblett and Sydney Park ran 3:30 and 4:55, respectively. The race was on the San Tan Mountain Regional Park. Full outcomes.
Throughout the Years – Peoria, Arizona
Additionally included in final week’s column, the occasion went almost every week between 2024 and 2025 with a number of totally different distance and fixed-time races. Spotlight runs included 100-mile winners Matt Collins and Sarah Zentack, in 14:48 and 19:46, and 200-mile leaders Tim Vail and Amy Mower, in 55:44 and 61:29. Cole Crosby and Janelle Stark ran 152 and 122 miles within the 24-hour race, and Andrew Readinger and Rachel Entrekin totaled 218 and 212 miles within the 48-hour contest. Full outcomes.
Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour – Missouri Metropolis, Texas
The New Yr’s run had Juan Acevedo and Dena Carr whole 200 and 181 miles over the race’s two-plus days. Full outcomes.
The 2025 Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour girls’s podium: (l-to-r) 1. Dena Carr, 2. Letha Cruthirds, 3. Rita Coughlin. Photograph: Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour
The 2025 Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour males’s podium: (l-to-r) 3. Josh Jenkins, 1. Juan Acevedo, 3. Michael McGinnis. Photograph: Snowdrop Extremely 55 Hour
RAGBAG 50k – Waco, Texas
The primary-year 10-loop 50k had Colton Anderson and Emily Newberry atop its leaderboard in 6:05 and seven:09. Full outcomes.
Yankee Springs Winter Problem – Middleville, Michigan
It was the thirteenth yr for the occasion on the Yankee Springs State Recreation Space. A small group of fifty milers have been led by Jameson Kloeckner and Iris Lenauer (Canada) in 7:10 and 9:39, and Matthew Mackey and Elaine Sheikh have been greatest within the 50k at 5:08 and 4:44, with Sheikh the general winner. Full outcomes.
Nice Scorpion Path 50k – Merdian, Mississippi
The eighth annual race celebrates the scorpions at Bonita Lakes Park. Race winners Zachary Vogt and Amanda Ray ran 4:24 and 6:30. Full outcomes.
Amanda Ray, the 2025 Nice Scorpion Path 50k girls’s winner. Photograph: Nice Scorpion Path 50k
Zachary Vogt, the 2025 Nice Scorpion Path 50k males’s winner. Photograph: Nice Scorpion Path 50k
Frozen Sasquatch 50k – Charleston, West Virginia
William Ross and Katherine Felton went for 4:53 and 5:40 runs on the most effective trails of the Kanawha State Forest. Full outcomes.
Salem Lakeshore Frosty 50k – Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Tom Clifford led 4 males underneath 4 hours with a 3:13 successful time, and Anna McPherson received the ladies’s race in 4:19. Full outcomes.
Harbison State Forest 50k – Columbia, South Carolina
Prime runners Garrett Spangler and Michele Schaafsma got here by way of in 4:27 and 6:29. Full outcomes.
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