"Last weekend, at the 2025 Leadville 100 Mile, 35-year-old Coloradan Anne Flower, in her debut 100 miler, won in a time of 17 hours and 58 minutes to set a new women's course record. That time bested ultrarunning icon Ann Trason's 31-year-old course record of 18:06, by about eight minutes. Over the intervening years since Trason's performance, many women have tried but failed to reach her nearly untouchable record, with the race's high altitude, persistent runability, daytime heat, and occasionally awful thunderstorms battering them back."
"Back in August of 1994, when Trason set the prior course record, she was having the running year of her life. In May, she won the Silver State 50 Mile outright in a time of 7:29, which is still the women's course record. And a month later, she won her sixth consecutive Western States 100 with a then course-record time, finishing second overall."
"The race had a significant media presence, with a large film crew working on a feature-length documentary about the Tarahumara and Trason. Leadville local Johnny Sandoval went to the lead early and built a half-hour gap on a chase group of five Tarahumara and Trason by around mile 30. The chase pack, which had splintered into groups, caught Sandoval at the base of Hope Pass. Leading after that were two Tarahumara runners, Juan Herrera and Martimano Cervantez, and Trason."
Anne Flower, 35, won the 2025 Leadville 100 Mile in her first 100-mile race with a time of 17 hours 58 minutes, setting a new women's course record. Her time beat Ann Trason's 31-year-old record of 18:06 by about eight minutes. Trason set the prior record in August 1994 during an exceptional season that included a Silver State 50 Mile win and her sixth consecutive Western States victory. Seven Tarahumara runners ran alongside Trason in 1994, and a substantial media crew covered the race. Johnny Sandoval led early in that race before a splintering chase pack caught him near Hope Pass.
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