Veteran ultrarunner Rob Krar nabbed 2d position on the Leadville Path Marathon in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, main a pack of 4 Canadians who cracked the highest 12 within the 42.2-km race. The 46-year-old Krar, who hails from Hamilton, Ont., crossed the end line in 3:42:23, incomes him a place at the podium between Scott Spillman of Denver, who gained the marathon in 3:36:52, and Frank Pipp of Longmont, Colo., who positioned 3rd with 3:45:02.

The paths of Leadville are acquainted terrain for Krar, who gained the Leadville Path 100—the previous mining the city’s flagship 100-mile race—in 2014 (16:09:32) and 2018 (15:51:57). Krar, now based totally in Flagstaff, Ariz., additionally gained the Western States 100-mile staying power run in 2014 and 2015.

His effort at Saturday’s marathon crowned off a number of sturdy performances through Canadians at the Leadville direction. Molly Hurford of Collingwood, Ont., ran 4:38:53 to complete 8th within the feminine class. (The Canadian Working contributor positioned 2d within the girls’s 80K race finally yr’s Quebec Mega Path (11:51:56), and claimed best honours—within the girls’s class and general—finally yr’s Outlaw 100 Oklahoma ( 23:53:42). Topping the ladies’s podium at Leadville this yr have been Ellie Pell of Boulder (4:02:14), Emma Sjolund of Leadville (4:19:09) and Christina Bauer of Flagstaff (4:24:06).

Two different Canadians slightly neglected squeezing into the highest 10. Reid Burrows of Grand Bay-Westfield, N.B., winner of remaining yr’s 50K Sulphur Springs path race, ran 3:54:03 to complete eleventh within the males’s class. Madeline Wighardt of Ancaster, Ont., who positioned 2d within the girls’s class finally yr’s Quebec Mega Path 110K, completed twelfth within the girls’s class with 4:46:13.

Lonnie Clark of Colorado Springs, Colo. (5:36:51) and Mads Holm Hansen of Denmark (7:18:24) have been the finishers within the marathon’s non-binary class.

Taking best spots within the Leadville Heavy Part—a process  simply over 25 km—have been Jeff Cuno of Albuquerque, N.M. (2:02:20), Devin Vennard of Leadville (2:03:30) and Ethan Goldman of Denver (2:20:10). The highest 3 girls have been Ali Kallner of Denver (2:13:53), Kylah Ricks of Colorado Springs (2:19:54) and Hannah Campbell of Lakewood, Colo. Jessi Friedman of Leadville used to be the finisher within the non-binary class (3:57:44).

Saturday’s races drew round 1,500 runners representing six nations and all 50 U.S. states. The marathon and Heavy Part occasions most often take runners as much as round 4,018 metres at Mosquito Move, the absolute best steady move in the US. In spite of organizers’ efforts to transparent Mosquito Move, because of Leadville’s chillier spring that introduced snow and freezing temperatures, each lessons have been altered to show round reasonably beneath the summit. Further mileage used to be added in other places to handle the direction distances.