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Probably the most famous multiday race in the world and certainly the largest field in a multiday race, the 22nd Marathon des Sables is underway with 821 runners signed up according to the website including the Akhdars and the Ahansals.
No news yet but stay tuned to Daraboud.com
This inaugural series of races finishes today, apparently shorter at 250km than the planned 300km event. The 300km event is a self supported 6 day race through the Northern Canadian wilderness in the Great Slave Lake area. (more…)
Race director Martin Like is posting daily reports on the site and writes that at the 116 mile point, of the 9 original runners who began the race only 4 remain. Extreme cold and ferocious winds have made this a very difficult event.
Checkout the latest news at 6633 Ultra
From the YUA site:
20:15 (local time) Andy Heading wins a shortened 460 mile race
With temperatures expected to go down to - 61 tomorrow and “warmer” temperatures only arriving by Sunday it was decided to stop the race. We also took into consideration the progress Tom, Pearse, Klaus and Joachim have made in the last 24 hours. They managed to do roughly 17 miles in that period of time.
Checkout the Yukon Arctic Ultra for the full post and photos on the gallery.
By ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Tue Feb 20, 3:35 PM ET
IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt - Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000 miles. (more…)
Supercold temperatures at the start of this years Arrowhead, -28 and only one foot competitor, Sarah Lowell who was the first woman to complete the race and in a time of 2 days:07hours:07minutes. The other competitors were bikers.
“probably the most epic experience of my life,†she said after the race.
PlanetUltramarathon has the story.
Checkout http://www.arrowheadultra.com/Â for all the event details.
With the marathon and the 100 mile race finished, interest lies now with the 300 and 460 mile races.
Italians Stefano Miglietti and Enrico Ghidoni have been running together since the start and had a 16 hour lead over Dave Berridge from England on leaving Braeburn.
In the 460 mile race, Another Englishman, Andy Heading, had an 6 hour lead over Joachim Rintsch who is also 2 hours clear of Tom Wolter-Roessler from Germany. Allen Pearse and Klaus Schweinberger, the other runners left Braeburn together.
Checkout the site for race videos and photo galleries.
Hello everyone,
most of you who will follow this year’s Yukon Arctic Ultra and certainly those of you who run, xc-ski or mountain bike it will have frequently checked the website these last few weeks. Then you are up to date. But just in case I am sending the last News Updates also as a newsletter. (more…)
Hello everyone,
Not much time left now! And it looks like we will have good weather and trail conditions, too.
The checkpoints of the YAU 2007 (more…)
Hello everyone,
Race Roster Update
New on the 100 mile race roster is Heike Pawzik from Germany. Heike is an experienced athlete who has run an incredible 156 ultras and 67 marathons so far! The cold will be new to her, though.
Frank Janssens from Vancouver is back to have a go at the 300 miles. In 2006 he had to quit due to injury.
Pearse Allen is the latest addition to a great field of athletes. Pearse is from Dublin and already finished the 300 miles in 2005. Well, actually he had signed up for the 100 miles at the time. However, he enjoyed it so much that he decided to continue. Now he is back to take on the challenge of our 460 mile distance. (more…)
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