We’ve covered what the women UROYs of 2022 have been up to in 2023. Now it’s time to find out what the top 10 UROY men have done this year.
Last year’s UROY winner, Adam Peterman, has unfortunately been injured this year and has yet to compete. It remains to be seen if he’ll sneak a race in during the second half of the year or decide to wait until 2024.
Second-place athlete Jim Walmsley, and proud owner of five UROY awards from 2016 to 2021, won and established a new course record at the Istria 100-miler in April in Croatia to earn his spot on the start line at UTMB in September.
Dakota Jones has three ultra finishes under his belt so far. His first was a sixth-place finish at the Gorge Waterfalls 50k in April. One month later, Jones won the Transvulcania 73k in Spain and at Western States in June, he finished in 17th place. We think he’s lining up at CCC at UTMB in September.
Coming in fourth in the voting for the 2022 season, Arlen Glick has raced three 100-milers this year. On April 1, he won and set a new course record at Umstead in North Carolina. At Western States, he finished in 13th, and at the Hardrock 100 Endurance Run last month he took fourth. In the last two years, Glick has raced a minimum of four 100-milers and he just announced last week that he’s going to contest Run Rabbit Run in September.
After back-to-back incredible years, it appears that the fifth-ranked runner from 2022, David Sinclair, has not raced in 2023. We don’t know his plans for the second half of the season.
Hayden Hawks displayed excellent form in the early part of the season by winning the Tarawera 100k in New Zealand in February and then, the Canyons 50k in April. At Western States in June, he was forced to drop with a knee injury that needed surgical repair. His racing calendar is unknown for the remainder of the year.
Number seven in 2022, Tyler Green, has raced more than any of the top six finishers from last year and found success each time he’s lined up. He placed first at the Orcas Island 50k in Washington in January, and then third at Transgrancanaria 126k in Spain in February. He took March off but then was back at it in April with a win at the Yakima Skyline Rim 50k in Washington, and secured a win at the Tiger Claw 50-miler, also in Washington. In June, he finished second at Western States, his third consecutive top-five finish at the race. Green is racing UTMB in September.
The eighth-ranked runner in the 2022 UROY, Harvey Lewis III, has raced the same number of races as Green. He kicked off his 2023 campaign with a second-place finish at the Root and Rock Trail Series 50k in Ohio and another second-place finish at In the Woods 30A 50k in Florida. He won the Dawn 2 Dusk 2 Dawn 24-hour in Pennsylvania in May as a tune-up for his third-place finish at the Australian Backyard Masters, where he claimed third. At the Badwater 135 last month in California, Lewis also finished in third place. He is registered for the Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra in Tennessee this October.
Jeff Browning, 51, has raced with great success, more than any other top 10 runner last year. In January, he won the Coldwater Rumble 100-miler in Arizona and three weeks later, won the Elephant Mountain 50k. At Cocodona, he won the inaugural sister event, the Sedona Canyons 125 in May, and then in June won the Bighorn Trail Run 100-miler in Wyoming. Last month at Hardrock he finished in fifth behind Glick. Races on his calendar for the rest of the year include Utah’s The Bear 100-miler and Wasatch 100-miler, both in September.
The tenth-placed runner in the UROY voting last year, Rich Lockwood, has two results in 2023 thus far. In April, he took sixth at the Lake Sonoma 50-miler in California and in June, he was 29th at the Broken Arrow Skyrace 46k. Lockwood is registered for CCC at UTMB.
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