Ultra Weekend Recap — June 18

The Ultra Weekend Recap for our last official weekend of spring brings us results from California’s Broken Arrow Skyrace, Utah’s Logan Peak Trail Run, Ontario’s Niagara Ultra, records at Six Days in the Dome in Wisconsin and a whole lot more.

On Saturday, June 17, the Broken Arrow Skyrace 46k took place in Olympic Valley, California. Michelino Sunseri, from Driggs, Idaho, led the way for the men, finishing in 3 hours, 58 minutes and 2 seconds. He was followed closely by Missoula, Montana, resident Jeff Mogavero, who finished in 4 hours and 9 seconds, and San Francisco’s Nick Handel, who rounded out the podium in 4 hours, 4 minutes and 37 seconds. In the women’s contest, local runner Helen Mino Faukner from nearby Truckee, California, won in 4 hours, 50 minutes and 19 seconds. Lindsey McDonald out of Flagstaff, Arizona, was the runner-up in 4 hours, 58 minutes and 50 seconds, and Kristina Mascarenas of Colorado Springs, Colorado, took third in 5 hours, 1 minute and 16 seconds. Check out the full results here.

In Logan, Utah, at the Logan Peak Trail Run 28-miler, Kate Hunter from Kansas City, Missouri, won in 4 hours, 12 minutes and 3 seconds. She was followed by Rebekah Rose out of Lewiston, Utah, in 4 hours, 20 minutes and 1 second, and Salt Lake City’s Andrea Ostwald in 4 hours, 28 minutes and 21 seconds. In the men’s contest, Jonathan Castrejon from Oakley, Utah, won in 3 hours, 37 minutes and 43 seconds. Adam Hendrickson of Millville, Utah, came in second in 3 hours, 45 minutes and 25 seconds, and Dustin Murray out of Pocatello, Idaho, secured third in 3 hours, 53 minutes and 35 seconds. Full results here. 

North of the border at the Niagara Ultra 50k, Aidan Rutherford from Waterloo, Ontario, won in 3 hours, 21 minutes and 32 seconds. He was followed by Sven Jurshevski of Toronto, Ontario, in 3 hours, 37 minutes and 2 seconds, and Christian Keller, from Meilen, Switzerland, came in third in 3 hours, 43 minutes and 48 seconds. Julie Hamulecki from Toronto won for the women and finished second overall in 3 hours, 24 minutes and 28 seconds. Breanne Schaefer of Grimsby, Ontario, was the runner-up in 3 hours, 53 minutes and 48 seconds, and Neela D’Souza from Pickering, Ontario, came in third in 4 hours, 8 minutes and 33 seconds. Peruse the full results here.

Six Days in the Dome is still going on in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and you can check out the live results as they get updated here. It’s been reported that a few records have been set including Chikara Omine of Sacramento, California, running 50 miles in 5 hours, 4 minutes and 9 seconds, and 100k in 6 hours, 31 minutes and 7 seconds for new Age 40-45 American records (pending ratification).

Other races already in our database from this weekend include the White Pine Solstice Runs 55k in Tooele, Utah, the Millersylvania 50k in Olympia, Washington, the Broken/Vista 50k in Bend, Oregon, the Schuetzen Nein! Hour Endurance Run in Davenport, Iowa, the Ghost Town Trail Challenge 50k in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, and more as they trickle in. 

What ultra results did we miss this weekend? If you have a link and a brief recap, we’d love to hear about it in the comments below. Come back on Wednesday for our special Western States edition of What’s Up In Ultra with quotes from many of the key players lining up on Saturday, June 24.