December 22, 2025 – iRunFar

Ho, ho, ho! It’s a vacation week, and there wasn’t quite a lot of racing.

There was, although, the Desert Solstice Observe Invitational and a few quick instances on the clock.

Desert Solstice Observe Invitational – Phoenix, Arizona

Males

Charlie Lawrence, already the 50-mile world file holder, arrived to the monitor focusing on a sub-6-hour 100-kilometer end. That might’ve been a brand new 100k world file, too. Lawrence missed these marks however got here away with a brand new American file. Amongst record-eligible programs, it’s the fourth-fastest time for the space ever. Lawrence completed in 6:07:10. That’s solely 95 seconds again of Aleksandr Sorokin’s (Lithuania) 6:05:35 world file. Jim Walmsley’s former American file of 6:09:26 had stood since 2021.

Within the 24-hour race, Piotr Chadovich totaled 155.6 miles. That’s the furthest of any American for twenty-four hours this 12 months.

Girls

A small ladies’s subject was led by Joyce Payne. She reached 100 miles in 17:41.

Full outcomes.

U.S. and World Snowshoe Championships – Brillion, Wisconsin

The U.S. and World Snowshoe Championships have been held on back-to-back days, giving high runners an opportunity to double up on medals.

The U.S. Showshoe Championships went first on a 5k monitor. Solely 16 seconds separated the primary three males. Eliot Soderholm pulled away from Andrew Allen and Erik Barkhaus over the second half to win in 19:18. Allen and Barkhaus adopted in 19:31 and 19:34.

Jackie Hering dominated the ladies’s race in 22:41, and Laurel Moyer and Olivia Dietzel have been second and third in 25:02 and 25:51.

The following-day World Snowshoe Championships doubled the space to go 10k. Soderholm, age 20, doubled again to win one other gold medal. Soderholm coated the monitor in 38:06, over two minutes higher than everybody else. Julien Pinsonneault (Canada) got here subsequent in 41:32 for second, and Allen was third in 42:29.

It was a repeat within the ladies’s race, too. Hering got here again for extra and gained in 46:30. Kaitlyn Vanias earned a silver medal in 48:37, and Dietzel was third for the second day in a row in 50:22.

Full outcomes.

Extra Races and Runs

Woodside Ramble 50k – Redwood Metropolis, California

The race was held on the Huddart County Park, and Kevin Stewart and Courtney Winterbauer gained in 3:48 and 5:07. Full outcomes.

Cave Creek Thriller – Cave Creek, Arizona

Males’s 50k winner Eric LiPuma went approach beneath the previous course file and gained in 3:38. Jeff Browning and Brian King have been second and third in 4:19 and 4:27. Joanna Fortier was atop the ladies’s podium in 4:46, and Rachel Buzzard and Rolonda Jumbo have been subsequent in 5:26 and 5:36, respectively. Full outcomes.

SoMo Solstice Souleater 50k – Phoenix, Arizona

Ross Kiewiet and Joe Mlachak tied for the lads’s race in 7:14, and Shelby Heinz gained in 9:06.

Lookout Mountain 50 Mile – Lookout Mountain, Georgia

Race winners William Sickenberger and Amy Ross-Johnson led the fields in 7:27 and 9:21. Full outcomes.

Historic Oaks 100 Mile – Titusville, Florida

Racing within the Enchanted Forest Nature Sanctuary, Derek Daniels and Michelle Toppi gained in 24:55 and 27:20. Full outcomes.

2026 World Path Majors

The third-year sequence has a 10-event schedule for 2026 with each the longer and shorter sequence returning. The schedule matches final 12 months with two exceptions. Two 2025 sequence occasions — the Swiss Canyon Path (Switzerland) and Grand Raid des Pyrrénées (France) — aren’t a part of subsequent 12 months’s schedule.

• January 22-25 – Hong Kong 100k and 50k (China)
• February 14-15  – Black Canyon 100k and 50k (U.S.)
• March 4-8 – Transgrancanaria 126k and 47k (Spain)
• April 24-26 – Mt. Fuji 167k and 39k (Japan)
• April 25-26 – Madeira Island Extremely-Path 118k and 56k (Portugal)
• June 13-14 – South Downs Manner 161k and 50k (U.Okay.)
• July 2-5 – Quebec Mega Path 135k and 51k (Canada)
• September 17-20 – Vietnam Mountain Marathon 100k and 50k (Vietnam)
• November 5-8 – Grampians Peaks Path 162k and 50k (Australia)
• November 20-22 – Extremely-Path Cape City 100k and 55k (South Africa)

2026 U.S. Observe & Area Affiliation (USATF) Mountain, Extremely, Path Championships

• February 20 – 100-mile street nationwide championships – Jackpot 100 Mile (Nevada)
• April 11 – 100k street nationwide championships – MadCity Ultras (Wisconsin)
• June 7 – traditional mountain operating nationwide championships – Sunapee Scramble (New Hampshire)
• June 19 – uphill mountain operating nationwide championships – Damaged Arrow Ascent (California)
• August 15 – 50k path nationwide championships – Wy’East Path Fest 50k (Oregon)
• November 7 – half marathon path nationwide championships – Moab Half Marathon (Utah)
• November 14 – 50-mile street nationwide championships – Tunnel Hill 50 Mile (Illinois)

There aren’t any World Mountain Working Championships in 2026, however the Sunapee Scramble and Damaged Arrow Ascent can be choice races to call the U.S. crew for the Mountain Working World Cup Uphill and Basic finales in Canada in October 2026.

Moreover, though not a nationwide championships occasion, the Damaged Arrow 23k, to be held on June 21, is the choice race for the U.S. crew that can race on the Mountain Working World Cup Lengthy Distance finale in Poland in September 2026.

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