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Dowdle, 94 yards: Last Soul is over
Mark Dowdle ran the last yard alone after Ayyoub El Osrouti stopped at 93. The desk has closed the live board and ranked the full field.
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Last Soul, night four: two men, 88 yards, no end time
Mark Dowdle and Ayyoub El Osrouti are the last two. Norman Mascher-Aspensjö went out at 80. The first edition ended at 67. The board is live.
Kick Rocks Midseason Top 20: the year already has a shape
Dauwalter at 1. Bouillard at 2. A backyard world-record holder inside the twenty. The first Top 20 of the year — published like HLTV does in July.
Seven days out: Chamonix is already the story
Jornet for a fifth, Bouillard as the form horse, and a women's race that has been building since Cocodona. The Kick Rocks desk opens UTMB week.
What do you do after the DNF that everyone watched?
Walmsley stepped off at Foresthill. Jornet never found the day. Both are on the UTMB start list. The ranking already punished them. The valley might not.
Jenn Lichter is not a breakout anymore
Two course records before July. A Western States title. The UTMB start list now has a third pole, and the pole is fast.
Bouillard takes the 100-mile board. The overall stays Dauwalter.
August ranking: Western States rewrote the men's trail 100 list. The world ranking still belongs to the woman who keeps winning the hardest ones.
119 yards later, the backyard still has not caught Gore
A year on from Dead Cow Gully, the world record sits at 495.8 miles. Big's in October is the first serious attempt to move it.
The sport outgrew its websites. Kick Rocks is the desk.
News, live events, format rankings, records, and runner pages in one place — built like a Major tournament site, written like a broadsheet.
Pommeret at 50, Dauwalter in four-for-four: Hardrock belongs to the veterans
21:11:36 overall. 26:03:10 clockwise. Silverton watched two course records and a reminder that the San Juans still reward the people who have already suffered here.
13:46. 15:28. The day Western States changed its math
Bouillard smashed the men's record by 23 minutes. Lichter took Dauwalter's mark by 88 seconds. Jornet and Walmsley did not finish. Auburn will talk about this one for a decade.
Rachel Entrekin did not win the women's race. She won the race.
56:09:48 at Cocodona 250 — men's record, women's record, Dauwalter in second by almost six hours. The expedition format has a new number one.