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Just finished compiling the Women's UTMB 1/3/10 time spreads since 2003. Amazing that there was less that 12 minutes between 🥇 and 🥉 in 2018! 2003 only had 7 women finishers compared to 355 in 2024. Big growth in the sport and the results show it. @aidstationfireb…

Preparing for UTMB later this month and have generated the men's field 1/3/10 time spread charts. The full course distance has ranged between 153km to 176.4km so the spread is probably the more meaningful year-to-year data. That said, times have improved while the course has…

UTMB WEEK START LISTS: Started collating a tentative and confirmed list of starters for all UTMB week races with some crowdsourcing and social media help. Please feel free to review and DM here or on IG to contribute any additional names or confirmations: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Start lists for the most important races in the sport should be default public and updated at a regular cadence (if not in real time) if possible. See: Western States, Sierre-Zinal, etc.

Just over a month out from UTMB and nothing remotely resembling a tentative it official start list for any distance? Unbelievable. #ReleaseThePolettiList

TdF mountain stages start tomorrow! 😍

#WMTRC 2025 | 🇺🇸 FULL TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT | 15-JUL-2025 | @usatf_mut trailrunner.com/trail-news/202…

There were four people who completed the WSER-Hardrock 100 double this year: Chris Roberts (52h32m), Amber Weibel (54h16m), Jamil Coury (68h47m) and David Galloway (70h44m). Amber's time is the second fastest double by a woman in history, only second to Courtney's 2023 time!

Ludovic keeps joking. He says to RD Dale Garland, “Now, you need need a third direction.” #HR100

Having done some sections of the #Hardrock100 course, I’m convinced I could never finish this race. But goddammit if Dale’s “please stay standing if you’ve finished [1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20] Hardrocks” pre-race speech doesn’t get me jacked up to give it a go one day.

Hiroki Kai's 7.5 day runfest: (AEST / UTC+10) #WS100 Start: 10pm, Sat 28 June Finish: 2:22pm, Sun 29 June (16:22:46) #GCM25 Gold Coast Half-Marathon: Start: 6:15am, Sat 5 July Finish: 7:39am (1:24:23) Gold Coast Marathon: Start: 6:16am, Sun 6 July Finish: 9:14am (2:58:52)

Western States 100 Men's 1st, 3rd, 10th Spread Analysis. After taking a quick look at the last 5 years of 1st-10th data last week, it seemed natural to redo it with a chart version displaying the time spreads between 1st, 3rd, 10th place finishers. This view really helps…

Western States 100 Top 10 Women's place analysis. This view does a nice job highlighting place movement over time. Shoutout Fiona Pascall with the move from 17 -> 5. **Note to self, figure out how to get the colors to not be the same for adjacent runners. @wser…

Western States 100 Top 10 Men's place analysis. This view does a nice job highlighting battles as well as how the race settles out over time. Epic back-and-forth between @kilianj and Jeff Mogavero. Shoutout Kai Hirokai for going from 19 -> 10. @wser @aidstationfireb @dylanbo

Alright, time to meme the heck out of me folks. Give me your best shot

Western States 100 Women's Top 20 Entry Analysis: 3 Top Ten 10 Golden Tickets 5 Lottery (1 Waitlist) 1 Raffle 1 Race Admin @aidstationfireb @dylanbo

Western States 100 Men's Top 20 Entry Analysis: 3 Top Ten 9 Golden Tickets 6 Lottery (3 Waitlist) 1 Sponsor 1 Raffle @aidstationfireb @dylanbo

Abby Hall is your 2025 Western States 100 Champion, in 16:37:16! This is the fourth fastest time in race history and Abby’s result is only the tenth time a woman has run faster than 17 hours! #wser #seeyouatstates

I will not stand for the Dan Jones and Caleb Olson erasure.