It was a back-to-back weekend of racing at Mt. Sunapee with USATF Championship titles at stake along with spots on the USATF Mountain Running Teams – Vertical and Classic – heading to the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Austria in June.
On Sunday, April 30, the USATF Mountain Running Championships were held and Saturday’s Vertical Mountain Champion, Grayson Murphy, prevailed again to take the win and Dan Curts, who was third yesterday (2nd for USATF) claimed his first USATF Mountain Running title. The Sunapee Scramble hosted the championships at Mt. Sunapee Resort located in Newbury, New Hampshire co-directed by Tom Hooper and Paul Kirsch, Six03 Endurance Races.
The nine-mile two-loop course (4.5 miles per loop) started at the base of the ski resort on service roads for the first three miles, before reaching the summit and heading down an open field ski run and through forested glades on extremely technical footing complete with tree roots, moss, and churned up mud. The halfway point in the race was at approximately 4 and a half miles at the base of the ski area. In total, participants gained 3000 feet of climbing and an equal amount of descent.
It was cool, gray and rainy for the late morning starts — men went off first at 11:00 followed by the women at 11:30 — and the weather did not let up. Even though the skies never cleared, and the rain never stopped, the participants seemed to enjoy the challenge of the weather as well as the variety of terrain.
USATF Mountain Running Championships Results
USATF Top Ten Women
1 Grayson Murphy, 27, Flagstaff, AZ, 1:08:56
2 Allie McLaughlin, 32, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:11:53
3 Rachel Tomajczyk, 30, Williams, AZ, 1:16:35
4 Kasie Enman, 43, Huntington, VT, 1:16:40
5 Megan Lacy, 29, Boise, ID, 1:17:05
6 Colleen Chase, 27, Princeton, MA, 1:19:21
7 Katie O’Regan, 38, Lititz, PA, 1:21:42
8 Corey Dowe, 29, North Conway, NH, 1:22:37
9 Kylah Ricks, 20, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:22:58
10 Grace Morgan, 27, Boulder, CO, 1:23:28
USATF Top Ten Men
1 Daniel Curts, 27, Norwich, VT, 1:01:04
2 Morgan Elliott, 31, Salida, CO, 1:02:51
3 Liam Meirow, 27, Portland, OR, 1:03:16
4 Edward Owens, 29, San Francisco, CA, 1:03:27
5 Max King, 43, Bend, OR, 1:03:50
6 Casey Campbell, 30, Bend, OR, 1:03:52
7 Garrett Corcoran, 27, Salt Lake City, UT, 1:04:25
8 Mason Coppi, 25, Liverpool, NY, 1:04:47
9 Cole Campbell, 23, Gunnison, CO, 1:05:02
10 Aesop Brown 28, Colorado Springs, CO, 1:06:16
USATF Age Group Winners
Junior (U20) – William Hogue, 14, Bronxville, NY, 1:27:23
40-44 – Max King, 43, Bend, OR, 1:03:50 and Kasie Enman, 43, Huntington, VT, 1:16:40
45-49 – Clayton Bouchard, 49, Lykens, PA, 1:24:17 and Leslie O’Dell, 47, Albany, NH, 1:28:10
50-54 – Chris Grauch, 50, Nederland, CO, 1:18:52 and Dawn Roberts, 51, W Springfield, MA, 1:47:09
55-59 – Bruce Christensen, 55, Bolton, CT, 1:53:02 and Karen Encarnacion, 57, Attleboro, MA, 1:55:57
60-64 – Richard Fargo, 64, Chatham, NH, 1:39:49 and Emer O’Donaghue, 60, Maynard, MA, 2:34:52
65-69 – Paul Bazanchuk, 68, Center Conway, NH, 1:43:56 and Karen Gross, 66, Augusta ME, 2:44:19
70-74 – Bob Dunfey, 71, Portland, ME, 2:16:51 and Marcy Schwam, 70 Marblehead, MA, 2:35:37
75-79 – Paul Grant, 75, Carver, MA, 2:15:36
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