Mid-July is here, and the heat is turning up on the ultrarunning season in New England. The popular Notchview Ultra was the biggest event in the region during the July 11-13 weekend, with additional ultras taking place in Maine, New Hampshire in Connecticut. Notchview will have its own separate recap, and we’ll have a second roundup for the additional New England races, but here in Part I we look West to ultras in Colorado, Idaho and Oregon. We begin in Colorado, where Maine native Katie Schide turned in a stunning performance at the Hardrock 100-Mile Endurance Run. In the course of 13 months, Schide has won three of the sport’s most prestigious ultras and eclipsed two of Courtney Dauwalter’s course records, solidifying her position as one of the sport’s great female ultrarunners. Read on for more in this edition of the roundup.

Hardrock 100

Katie Schide solidified her position as one of the greatest female trail ultrarunners – certainly of the moment, if not all time – when native of Gardiner, Maine, turned in a dominant performance at the Hardrock 100-Mile Endurance Run on July 11-13 in Silverton, Colo. The 31st edition of the classic event marked the debut for the 33-year-old Schide on the high-altitude course.

Though she proudly represents Maine, Schide has spent most of her ultramarathon racing career in Europe while living in France. She has amassed many podium finishes along the way, but 2024 marked a pivotal year when she returned to the United States to make her debut at the Western States Endurance Run 100-miler in California. Schide has often had her performances compared to another great, Colorado’s Courtney Dauwalter, following Dauwalter’s stunning 2023 season where she won Western States, Hardrock and UTMB all in one year. Schide was victorious at the 2024 Western States, turning in the second-fastest time ever by a female, just 17 minutes shy of Dauwalter’s course record. Barely two months later, Schide toppled Dauwalter’s course record at UTMB while winning the popular mountain race against a deep field of top runners.

Schide pivoted her focus for 2025 to Hardrock and studied the course as she prepared to run the loop in the counter-clockwise direction with its 33,000 feet of climbing and high point above 14,000 feet. Her efforts paid off as she once again bested a record held by Dauwalter. Schide led the female field from start to finish, much of the time with a 2- to 3-hour cushion on the field. Ultimately, Schide finished first in the female field and sixth overall in 25:50:23, eclipsing Dauwalter’s previous overall female course record of 26:11:49 set in 2024, as well as Dauwalter’s counter-clockwise course record of 26:14:12 from 2023.

Schide won by nearly three hours as runner-up Manon Bohard, 33, of Liesle, France, finished in 29:36:16, and third-place Katharina Harmuth, 29, of Zurich, Switzerland, was third in 32:39:48. Amber Weibel, 47, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., and Stephanie Case, 43, of Chamonix, France, rounded out the female top five in 32:47:48 and 32:53:16, respectively.

A second New England woman joined Schide in the top 10 as 45-year-old Aliza Lapierre of Richmond, Vt., placed eighth in the female field in 39:54:57.

In the male field, a trio of French men swept the male podium as defending champion Ludovic Pommeret, 49, protected the top position in 22:21:53, followed by 37-year-old Mathieu Blanchard in 23:44:23, and 35-year-old Germain Grangier in 24:04:10. Three New England men were among the remaining finishers. Former New Hampshire resident John Tidd, 61, now living in San Lorenzo De El Escorial, Spain, finished 15th in 31:25:41. Jeff Davis, 43, of Amherst, Mass., finished 59th overall in 41:16:36, and 47-year-old Tim Finocchio of Holbrook, Mass., placed 74th overall in 42:44:18.

Of the 145 runners who started the race, 114 finished within the 48-hour time limit. Denise Klatt, 34, of Brookline, Mass., was the lone New Englander among the 31 who didn’t finish. Klatt previously finished Hardrock in 2024 in 47:31:36. In a tragic turn of events, the event experienced a fatality when Elaine Stypula of Michigan passed away after receiving CPR less than seven miles into the race. A cause of death has not been confirmed.

McCall Trail-Running Classic

Wilfrid Helmetag delivered a dynamite ultramarathon debut performance at the 14th annual McCall Trail-Running Classic on Saturday, July 12, in McCall, Idaho. Helmetag was among the front-runners for the duration of the 50K race on the alpine singletrack trails of the Payette National Forest, and he deftly navigated the 6,000 feet of climbing. Helmetag, Davis Hackman and Nick Clifforr were in close contact throughout, and a six-minute gap separated them by the end.

Hackman, 32, of Bellingham, Wash., earned the victory in 5:40:31, while Helmetag, 29, of Pawlet, Vt., followed closely in 5:43:08 to finish second. Clifford, 31, of Spokane, Wash., was a close third in 5:46:07. They were the lone sub-6-hour finishers. Top female Kate Bouse, 22, of Eugene, Ore., was fourth overall in 6:27:36.

Thirty-five runners finished the race within 12 hours.

Siskiyou Out Back Running Festival

Charlie Fay headed cross-county to earn his first ultramarathon finish when he traveled to the seventh annual Siskiyou Out Back Running Festival 100K and 50K ultras on July 12-13 in Ashland, Ore.

The event took place on the trails of the Siskiyou Mountains, as well as with some miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. No New Englanders were among the 114 finishers of the 100K race, but Fay was one of 198 finishers of the 50K within 11 hours. Fay, 30, of Boston, Mass., placed 36th overall in 5:58:23. Dylan Humberger, 25, of Ashland, Ore., and Caitlin Standifer, 36, of Boulder, Colo., led the male and female fields in 3:48:33 and 4:57:19, respectively.

*Editor’s Note: Results are found on a variety of sites, including ultrasignup.com, UltraRunning Magazine, and official race websites. We do the best we can to find as many results as possible to report on and recognize the local ultrarunning community.