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The 2023 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile noticed the race return to its former prominence as one of the aggressive ultramarathons within the U.S. this 12 months. Kicking off at 6:30 a.m. native time on the shores of Lake Sonoma exterior Healdsburg, California, each the ladies’s and males’s races noticed massive packs whittled down over the primary 20 or so miles of the race, earlier than an eventual chief emerged, who’d later be overtaken earlier than the end line. In the long run, it was Drew Holmen and Erin Clark who would come out on high after tight battles by way of the entrance of each fields.
This 12 months sees the Lake Sonoma 50 Mile run on a brand new course, with the largest change being a transfer of the beginning/end to the park’s customer middle. The present course options practically 10,000 ft (9,915 ft/3,302 meters) of climb and an equal quantity of descent over its relentlessly rolling 50.8 miles (81.8 kilometers). The earlier course had a reported 10,500 ft (3,200 meters) of climb, however that’s effectively inside the margin of error. Nonetheless, it’s finest to contemplate this a completely new course and solely roughly examine this 12 months’s occasions with these of the previous.
For 2023, the Lake Sonoma 50 Mile served as a qualifier for the 2023 Path World Championships 80-kilometer race, which shall be held in June, in Austria. The boys’s and ladies’s podium finishers earned spots on Staff USA.
Erin Clark on her technique to successful the 2023 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile. Photograph: Let’s Wander Images/Jesse Ellis
2023 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile Males’s Race
A bunch of a dozen males took out the race, all passing by way of the Heat Springs Creek support station at mile 13.5 roughly collectively. By mile 21, passing by way of the Madrone support station outbound, Morgan Elliot had roughly a minute lead with Preston Cates, Zach Perrin, Drew Holmen, Seth Ruhling, and Caleb Olson a couple of minute again and with Matthew Seidel, Tracen Knopp, and Richard Lockwood all inside roughly one other minute.
Halfway although the race, Elliot continued to carry a minute lead on the sphere at Lone Rock, however he fell again to 3rd with Holmen and Perrin collectively out in entrance by the return journey by way of Madrone at mile 30.4. Eight miles afterward the second cross by way of Heat Springs Creek at mile 38, Holmen had a full eight-minute lead on Olson, with Cates and Knopp operating collectively in third, 10.5 minutes off the lead, and Lockwood holding fifth simply over quarter-hour off the entrance.
Drew Holmen main Zach Perrin within the first half of the 2023 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile. Photograph: Let’s Wander Images/Jesse Ellis
Drew Holmen continued to construct his lead on the way in which to successful the 2023 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile in 6:44 with Caleb Olson ending lower than 12 minutes again in second. Preston Cates pulled away from Tracen Knopp with the pair ending third and fourth respectively. Chris Myers moved up in within the ultimate miles to take fifth, just a few seconds behind fourth place.
2023 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile Males’s Outcomes
- Drew Holmen – 6:44:20
- Caleb Olson – 6:55:45
- Preston Cates – 7:02:42
- Tracen Knopp – 7:05:19
- Chris Myers – 7:05:47
- Richard Lockwood – 7:06:27
- Ryan Sullivan – 7:15:46
- Matthew Seidel – 7:25:28
- Addison Smith – 7:31:46
- William Conner – 7:46:41
2023 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile Ladies’s Race
At mile 13, the Heat Springs Creek support station noticed the primary 25 runners by way of being all males and, then, what will need to have been the remnants of the ladies’s pack, as the subsequent 13 runners by way of had been all ladies. Tara Fraga, Hannah Osowski, Sarah Biehl, Anne-Marie Madden, and Erin Clark had been the primary 5 in that prepare, however all 13 handed by way of inside three and a half minutes. Eight miles later, outbound on the Madrone support station, it was nonetheless 13-straight ladies after the primary set of males. Osowski and Clark led that group with Fraga and Biehl lower than a minute again and Allison Baca, Sarah Keyes, and Madden in one other group lower than 90 seconds off the lead.
Halfway by way of the race, Keyes had a smallest of leads on Baca with Clark nonetheless inside a minute of the entrance. Osowski and Fraga ran collectively lower than two minutes off the lead. What a race!
One other 4 miles nearer to the end at Madrone inbound (mile 30.4), Keyes had constructed a 90-second lead on Baca with Clark lower than two minutes off the entrance and each Osowski and Fraga nonetheless inside 5 minutes of the lead. By mile 38 at Heat Springs inbound, Clark had closed the hole to Keyes with the pair now operating collectively on the head of the ladies’s race, and with Baca in third nonetheless lower than three minutes off the lead. Six minutes off the entrance, Osowski continued to run in fourth, whereas Lauren Puretz had handed Fraga to maneuver into fifth by the smallest of margins.
Mid-race ladies’s chief Sarah Keyes in the course of the 2023 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile. Photograph: Let’s Wander Images/Jesse Ellis
Mile 45 noticed Clark operating alone within the lead practically 4 minutes forward of Keyes with Baca now barely 20 seconds out of second place. In the meantime, Osowski was lower than three minutes out of second with Fraga having repassed Puretz to carry fifth place by a mere 90 seconds.
After seven hours of tight racing, It was Erin Clark who broke the tape for the ladies with a five-minute victory over Allison Baca. Sarah Keyes took third lower than three and a half minutes behind Baca, and Hannah Osowski took fourth, lower than 10 minutes behind the winner. Tara Fraga held off Lauren Puretz to take fifth.
2023 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile Ladies’s Outcomes
- Erin Clark – 7:49:27
- Allison Baca – 7:54:26
- Sarah Keyes – 7:57:50
- Hannah Osowski – 7:58:56
- Tara Fraga – 8:11:09
- Lauren Puretz – 8:12:47
- Shea Aquilano – 8:16:59
- Kristina Randrup – 8:25:32
- Anne-Marie Madden – 8:31:46
- Natalie Chirgwin – 8:32:26
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