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January 5, 2026 – iRunFar

This Week in Running Justin Mock TWIRWe’re so again. It’s a tender restart after a vacation week off with solely a handful of runs throughout the final weekend of 2025 and the primary weekend of 2026. We hope you had nice holidays!

Throughout the Years – Peoria, Arizona

The six-day occasion featured over a dozen races, going down from December 28, 2025, to January 3, 2026. The whole lot was run on a 1.42-mile loop.

Sierra DeGroff was the ladies’s and general six-hour winner with 43.7 miles. Girls took the primary 4 general end spots, and Andrea Mucchietto was the primary man with 36.6 miles in fifth place general.

Six-day world-record holder Megan Eckert was the ladies’s and general 12-hour winner with 81.2 miles. Males’s winner Matt Heacock totaled 70.5 miles over the mounted time.

Michael Carson and Benjamin Niebla - 2026 Across the Years Last Person Standing winner and assist

Michael Carson (proper) and Benjamin Niebla (left) battled it out on the 2026 Throughout the Years Final Particular person Standing race to turn out to be the winner and help. Photograph: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Pictures

Jennie Terflinger led the ladies’s 100-mile race in 27:17, and Rob Raguet-Schofield and Robert Mueller each went sub-16 for the boys with 15:41 and 15:54, respectively, on the end clock.

The 24-hour race additionally featured a lady on the high of the general rankings. Aden-Shiloh Broyles led everybody with 121.3 miles, and Nicholas Metal was the primary man with 105.8 miles.

Over 48 hours, Amy Mower ran 141.0 miles, and Cole Crosby received for the boys with 224.3 miles. Crosby’s distance sits simply outdoors the top-10 North American all-time checklist.

Married couple Melissa and Justin Montague received the six-day race with 406.3 and 481.1 miles, respectively.

Within the final particular person standing race, Michael Carson received forward of second-place help Benjamin Niebla with 145 laps and 204.5 miles.

Ann Plasona 12-time “UltraRunning Journal” North American Ultrarunner of the Yr, extremely pushed a walker for 112.8 miles over the six days. She lives with the problems of rheumatoid arthritis, reportedly went to the occasion with the objective of overlaying 50 kilometers, and surpassed that by rather a lot!

Full outcomes.

Ann Trason - 2026 Across the Years

The 12-time “UltraRunning Journal” North American Runner of the Yr Ann Trason lined 112.8 with a walker on the 2026 Throughout the Years Six Day race. Photograph: Jesse Ellis/Let’s Wander Pictures

Further Races and Runs

New Yr’s One Day – San Jose, California

The 24-hour occasion was held on a 1.0-mile loop round Hellyer Park’s Cottonwood Lake. Ayako Murai led the ladies’s group and the general race with 112.4 miles, and Daniel Chang was first for the boys with 102.1 miles. Full outcomes.

Tyler Andrews Treadmill Everesting World File – Boulder, Colorado

Mountain athlete Tyler Andrews climbed 29,032 toes to match the elevation of Mount Everest in 27.75 miles in 8:17:09 on the La Sportiva retailer in Boulder, Colorado, on December 21. It was a brand new world report. Andrews will chase a Mount Everest quickest recognized time this spring from the mountain’s north facet in Tibet, following a number of years of velocity report makes an attempt from the south Nepalese facet.

Snowdrop Extremely – Missouri Metropolis, Texas

The 55-hour fixed-time race was contested on a flat 0.7-mile asphalt loop. Karen Ellis and Juan Acevedo received with 155.3 and 200.9 miles, respectively. Acevedo has received right here yearly since 2022. Full outcomes.

Decision Run 50k – Waco, Texas

Nancy Nichols received it for the ladies in 7:53, and David Gerada led the boys in 5:35. Full outcomes.

Nancy Nichols- 2026 Resolution Run 50k - women's winner

Nancy Nichols, the 2026 Decision Run 50k girls’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

David Gerada - Resolution Run 50k - 2026 men's winner

David Gerada, the 2026 Decision Run 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

Yankee Springs Winter Problem 50k – Middleville, Michigan

Darcy Irvine and Jameson Kloeckner received the Fifteenth-year race in 6:36 and three:54. Full outcomes.

Nice Scorpion 50k – Meridian, Mississippi

Each Bethany Madson and Peter Kazery set new course information in 4:35 and 4:05. Full outcomes.

Recuperate from the Holidays 50k – Huntsville, Alabama

The longtime Huntsville Monitor Membership occasion had 84 finishers, led by Lisa Gates and Carson Miller in 4:45 and three:38. Full outcomes.

Frosty Fifty – Winston-Salem, North Carolina

On the Salem Lake Marina, Anna Buses and Chris Raulli received in 4:09 and three:13. Regardless of being just a few years away from the game, Rauli ran two minutes quicker than he did when ending second on the USATF 50k highway championships method again in 2018. Full outcomes.

Misplaced Coast 55k – Whitethorn, California

The free and unsupported race was delayed 24 hours resulting from a litany of storm warnings within the space on Saturday, however Lanore Bergenske and Jazmen McGinnis tied as first girls in 8:51, and Kevin Brightbill received for the boys in 6:35.

2026 Lost Coast 55K winners

The 2026 Misplaced Coast 55K winners (left to proper): Kevin Brightbill, Lanore Bergenske, and Jazmen McGinnis (tied for first girls). Photograph: Kevin Brightbill

Name for Feedback

New Yr’s Eve highway races are standard in Europe. Path runners Jan Torrella (Spain) and Hannes Namberger (Germany) ran 15:11 at Spain’s Sant Silvestre de Berga 5k and 15:09 at Germany’s Aschauer Vorsilvesterlauf 5k, respectively. Namberger’s race was just a few days earlier than New Yr’s Eve, however what different European path runners took to the highway to complete the yr?


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