March 2, 2026 – iRunFar

March 2, 2026 – iRunFar


This Week in Running Justin Mock TWIRRise and shine, it’s one other outcomes rundown. There wasn’t a number of high-level racing this weekend, however Miao Yao, Emily Hawgood, and Max King had been among the many international stars competing.

Moab’s Purple Scorching Extremely – Moab, Utah

The races ran simply west of Arches Nationwide Park.

50 Mile

It was the third 12 months for the 50-mile race, and Gina Myers scored a brand new course file in 9:56. Sarah Curran and Kristina Pattison had been second and third in 10:48 and 11:06.

Tyler Kivelson bested the boys’s subject in 9:49, and Gabe Holt and Devin Cann had been subsequent in 10:12 and 10:26, respectively.

55k

Girls’s winner Hannah Allgood raced by way of the pink rock in 4:32. That obtained her to sixth on the race’s lengthy all-time chart. Second-place Lauren Puretz dipped underneath the five-hour mark with a 4:59 end, and Madison Berumen was third in 5:50.

Bryan Kerl took the boys’s crown in 4:03, and Spencer Shellberg and Shane Skiff had been second and third in 4:13 and 4:32.

33k

The short-course race had Lily Berwanger run away from Rachel Spaulding and Mary Mahoney for the win. Berwanger completed in 2:52 to Spaulding’s and Mahoney’s 3:03 and three:09 marks.

Anders Hekkli scored the same successful margin within the males’s subject. Hekkli got here by way of in 2:08 to prime Josh Eberly and Frank Pipp and their 2:18 and a couple of:21 finishes.

Full outcomes.

Further Races and Runs

Tokyo Marathon – Tokyo, Japan

Two-time OCC winner Miao Yao (China) ran 2:32:30 to complete twenty fourth. Yao went by way of midway in a fast 1:13:40 however pale within the second half. Yao’s private greatest is 2:30:13 from November 2025. Full outcomes.

Gone Nuts – Tasmania, Australia

The occasion had three extremely distances. Amy Hasson and Joseph Nunn had been tops within the 101k in 19:25 and 17:28. Within the 75k, Amy Courto and Piotr Babis gained in 18:03 and 14:21. The posted 50k end result timing seems to be off, however it seems that Mel Clark gained the ladies’s race, and George Knight beat the boys. Full outcomes.

Hashawha Hills 50k – Westminster, Maryland

The 2-loop race dates again to 2008. This 12 months, Emily Driscoll and Patrick Blair gained in 5:07 and 4:02. Full outcomes.

2026 Hashawha Hills 50k Patrick Blair and Emily Driscoll (right) - winners

Patrick Blair (left) and Emily Driscoll (proper), the 2026 Hashawha Hills 50k winners. Picture courtesy of the race.

Orcas Island 100 Mile – Orcas Island, Washington 

The Rainshadow Operating race was fronted by Audrey Lawrence and Eric Yan in 22:15 and 20:56. Full outcomes.

Mastodon 10ish Miler – Bend, Oregon

Girls’s winner Mikelle Ackerley completed in 62:59, and Max King got here again from his current Barkley Marathons try and win the boys’s race in 56:08. Full outcomes.

Salmon Falls 50k – Pilot Hill, California

The purpose-to-point race had Emily Hawgood and Timothy Smith win in 4:26 and 4:13. Full outcomes.

Copper Hall 50k – Superior, Arizona

The race ran a big portion on the Arizona Path. Kelly Cockrell and Jonathan Kuplack gained in 5:30 and 4:25, respectively. Full outcomes.

Monument Valley Extremely – Monument Valley, Arizona

Mara Scallon and Turner Wyatt had been the 50k winners in 5:32 and 5:09, respectively. Full outcomes.

Cowtown Extremely 50k – Fort Value, Texas

The city highway extremely had McKale Montgomery win for the ladies and total in 3:33, and Dustin Darakhshan was simply behind as first man in 3:34. Full outcomes.

Mount Cheaha 50k – Delta, Alabama

The purpose-to-point run completed within the Cheaha State Park on the summit of Cheaha Mountain. Official outcomes haven’t but hit the online, however social media factors to Deanna Doane successful the ladies’s race in 4:45. That’s 16 minutes higher than the course file that had stood since 2011. Full outcomes (when out there).

Soil Mates Path Race – Thomaston, Georgia

A small group was led round a 5k loop for 50k by Olivia Duke and Paul Shepherd in 7:33 and 5:34. Full outcomes.

USATF Half Marathon Highway Nationwide Championships – Atlanta, Georgia

The ladies’s race was messy. Issues turned chaotic when the lead three girls had been led astray with lower than two miles to go. They might all end off the rostrum. Separate from that, Allie Ostrander completed eighth in 1:11:26, and 2025 Kodiak by UTMB 50k winner Makena Morley ran 1:12:42 for fifteenth. [In 2023, Allie Ostrander was suspended for four months after testing positive for canrenone, a metabolite of spironolactone, after it was determined that she mistakenly took the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.] Full outcomes.

Subsequent Weekend – Transgrancanaria – Gran Canaria, Spain

The 126k (78 miles) island run would be the 12 months’s third World Path Majors occasion. Henriette Albon (Norway), the 2025 girls’s winner, is anticipated again for a title protection, and Sunmaya Budha (Nepal), Ida Nilsson (Sweden), and 2025 race runner-up Claudia Tremps (Spain) are counted on as prime challengers. Males’s 2025 second- and third-place finishers Jonathan Albon (U.Okay.) and Josh Wade (U.Okay.) are the highest males’s coming back from a 12 months in the past, and Hayden Hawks (U.S.) is counted as a frontrunner too.

Henriette Albon - 2025 Transgrancanaria Classic - women's winner

Henriette Albon, the 2025 Transgrancanaria Basic girls’s champion, is again to race this 12 months. Picture: Transgrancanaria/Miguel Travieso

The occasion’s 46k  is once more a part of the World Path Majors Quick Sequence. Ram Maya Budha (Nepal), Núria Gil (Spain), and Gemma Arenas (Spain) are among the many top-ranked girls, and Antonio Martínez (Spain) and Bartłomiej Przedwojewski (Poland) headline the boys’s entrants. 

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  • Initially scheduled for March 5 to 7, the Puerto Vallarta by UTMB occasion has been pushed again to April 16 to 18.
  • What different occasions occurred this weekend?



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