Canyons 100K will thrill followers with deep elite self-discipline this weekend
Better than 2,500 runners, along with a deep elite self-discipline, are gearing up for an thrilling weekend at Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB in Auburn, Calif. Racers throughout the 100K event will traverse over parts of the Western States 100 (WSER) course in what can be the last word Golden Ticket race of the spring, with the best two finishers throughout the males’s and women’s lessons incomes automated entry into the 2024 model of WSER, to be held on June 29. Proper right here’s what it’s worthwhile to know to tune in and who (and the way in which) to watch.
Steep climbs and big stakes
The 100K 2024 Canyons course is a model new route (after heavy snowfall in 2023 and fires in 2022 caused hurt to the sooner course) and can doubtless be run throughout the reverse course (the race alternates directions yearly, identical to Hardrock 100). The course has runners climbing 3,962 metres over the 100K distance, nonetheless is an online downhill (identical to WSER).
Canyons hosts a 25K, 50K and 100-miler along with the 100K marquee event and can be the UTMB World Assortment Americas Essential. The very best 10 finishers for men and women in all events acquire automated entry into the UTMB World Assortment Finals race (100-mile UTMB, 100K CCC, or 50K OCC) in August in Chamonix, France. All race finishers will earn double elements, or “working stones,” heading into the 2025 UTMB lottery. With prime age groupers moreover incomes entry, there’s a grand entire of 210 automated entries to be captured over this weekend’s events.
Girls’s 100K race
American runner Katie Schide, who lives and trains in France, is the race favourite after taking second at WSER in 2023, and following that with a win on the Diagonale des Fous 100-miler. (Schide acquired UTMB in 2022.) Whereas her prime 10 finish in 2023 has already earned her a spot in WSER this yr, she’ll nonetheless be gunning for that podium. Schide will doubtless be lining up in direction of Riley Brady, who took second on the 2022 Javelina Jundred 100-miler. Fellow American Addie Bracy (fifth at 2023 Canyons 100K) joins them, along with Canada’s Arden Youthful, who took second on the San Tan Scramble 50K in Arizona in January, and was eleventh throughout the 50K race at Black Canyon Ultras in February.
Males’s 100K race
The 2022 winner of WSER (in his 100-mile debut), Adam Peterman, is making a return to racing after dealing with a pelvic stress fracture all by quite a lot of 2023, and might see some fierce opponents in Sweden’s Petter Engdahl, who acquired CCC (100K) by UTMB in 2022 and Eiger Extraordinarily-Path by UTMB in 2023. U.S. runners Matt Daniels (fourth at WSER in 2019 and ninth, in a difficult race at Canyons 100K in 2023) and Drew Holmen (fifth at CCC in 2023) will even be prime contenders.
You presumably can attempt the Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB 100K livestream, starting on Saturday, April 27, 8:00 a.m. ET, by clicking proper right here.
