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Jessy Carveth

Halifax

Senior News Editor at Marathon Handbook

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Articles

  • 5 days ago | marathonhandbook.com | Jessy Carveth

    Kilian Jornet’s long-awaited return to U.S. racing did not go to plan. Just a week out from his highly anticipated return to the Western States 100, the four-time UTMB champion and global ultrarunning icon placed a surprising 23rd at the Broken Arrow Ascent, a short but steep vertical race in California’s Sierra Nevada. Jornet cited a travel-related illness as the reason for his uncharacteristic result.

  • 1 week ago | marathonhandbook.com | Jessy Carveth

    The Boston Marathon is widely regarded as the holy grail for amateur runners (and even many of the elites), and races like REVEL have thrived by offering what many consider the fastest path to qualifying for that coveted bib. But the B.A.A.’s new indexing and qualification rules could upend that model, and force an identity reckoning for downhill marathon brands built around Boston-qualifying performance.

  • 1 week ago | marathonhandbook.com | Jessy Carveth

    This weekend, the stars of ultra trail running will gather in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the sunshine state of California for the world’s oldest 100-mile race: The Western States 100. The race has become known as one of the most challenging tests of endurance in the sport with nearly 30,000 feet of elevation gain to be covered within the 30-hour time limit.

  • 1 week ago | marathonhandbook.com | Jessy Carveth

    Anna Troup has won the 2025 Montane Summer Spine Race outright, becoming the first athlete across the finish line in one of the UK’s most demanding ultramarathons. The 55-year-old completed the 268-mile course in 84 hours, 56 minutes, and 37 seconds, finishing over six hours ahead of second place and nearly seven hours ahead of the top male runner.

  • 1 week ago | marathonhandbook.com | Jessy Carveth

    Peter Mitchell thought he was heading out for just another GPS art run, this time, a tribute to Lionel Messi etched into the sands of Wilsons Promontory National Park. But by the time he’d finished his 15-kilometre masterpiece, the only thing more shocking than the result was what the tide had done to his car. Mitchell, 50, spent five hours jogging meticulously along a stretch of remote sand dunes near Sandy Point, about three hours southeast of Melbourne.