Running After Dad

Happy Tuesday trail friends. What. A. Week. The inspiration flowing out of France hit all-time highs with Catalan Kilian Jornet and American Katie Schide being crowned this year's speedy King and Queen of Mont Blanc. Although we did find video evidence that Kilian is, in fact, human after all.

Back in Los Angeles, we look at two tight-knit running communities that helped Mayra and Jerry Garcia find themselves and ultimately each other. Plus, Will Ferrell "hits all the buttons" on UltraSignup.

- Matt Hart

THE WEEKEND COOL DOWN

Full Francophile

Katie Schide climbing to victory at the 2022 UTMB

Kilian Jornet sets a new course record at UTMB

Petter Engdahl rolling to a new CCC course record

There were 2,795 intrepid runners who left Chamonix last Friday to circumnavigate Europe's highest peak. Katie Schide (📸: 1) went out hard and after trading the lead with Marianne Hogan, took the win in 23 hours and 15 minutes (third times a charm for Katie who was 6th in 2019 and 8th in 2021).

Not even Covid could slow Kilian, as he once again proved himself the best ultrarunner of all time against a stacked field and became the first runner to circle Mont Blanc in under 20 hours for his 4th victory. Just to recap: Kilian broke both the Hardrock and the UTMB course records this year, 6 weeks apart. (📸: 2)

Get the full race play-by-play with iRunFar's complete coverage.

Congrats to Petter Engdahl for overcoming a scary ankle roll to set a massive new course record at CCC of 9 hours, 5 mins for the 100km race with 20,013 ft of vert (📸: 3).

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COMMUNITY

Big Challenges, Bigger Love

Ultrarunning brings people together around a shared acknowledgment that we are dedicated to doing hard things. For Mayra and Jerry Garcia, early life in Los Angeles provided plenty of challenges. In this touching feature by Heather Balogh Rochfort, she details the distances Mayra and Jerry have run and the distances they have come.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

THE DROP BAG

🎓 Witchy Ways: David Roche may or may not have consulted a witch from Stanford University to draw some interesting conclusions about racing UTMB by looking at the historic data.

💪 Swingers: How fast could you run 100-miles without swinging your arms? Alex Hutchinson looks at recent research that throws shade at our intuition (and Aristotle's) that arm-swing matters a lot.

👵 Pearls of Wisdom: At age 101, Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins set the world-record for her age group in the 100-meter dash at the USATF Masters Championship. She's got 7 pearls of wisdom, and we're all in for it.

DFL (DEAD FREAKIN' LAST)

😃 All Lit Up: Bet you can't run just one. Will Ferrell captures the ultrarunner approach to life — more is always better.

📽️ Bonus UTMB Footage: Watch Kilian Jornet and (eventual 2nd place) Mathieu Blanchard duke it out heading into Vallorcine. Then Kilian reveals a new downhill strategy - drop, tuck, and roll.

💥 Excuses, Excuses: A Semi-Rad list of frequently used excuses to skip a run. Our favorite? "Mercury is in retrograde." Totally valid.

🐦 Tweet of the Week: "Le Tour has the camera car. Trail running has:" @ChrisaSolomon catches this behind the scenes shot of how the UTMB magic happens.

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