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Chianti Recap, Trail House Project + Golden Ticket Shakeups (Singletrack News)

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Sports, Trail Running, Ultramarathon, Ultra Running, Running, News, Sports News, Mountain Running, Ultrarunning

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s edition of Singletrack News, we break down a massive weekend of racing across Chianti by UTMB, Chuckanut 50K, and Big Alta, highlighted by Golden Tickets awarded at Chianti and a highly anticipated showdown between Courtney Dauwalter and Rachel Entrekin. We discuss the winners, key performances, roll-down implications, and what it all means for the rapidly taking shape Western States field, along with early-season signals from some of the sport’s top contenders. Elsewhere, we d...

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0:00.0

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0:52.8

March 23rd edition of single track news joined by friend,

0:56.0

colleague, Alyssa, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. I cannot believe we are

1:01.3

nearing the end of March. This is wild and we've had some insane racing this weekend. So

1:06.6

excited to talk about it. Last week was the a of marsh does does this monday have a designation to

1:13.2

i don't think so st patrick's day belated st patrick's day yes st patrick's day belated uh holy crap i hope it

1:20.9

cools down in the western part of the u s and that's yeah gosh this is heck of a heat wave first up here a lot of racing we get to talk

1:33.0

about racing on this edition and there was a lot of it this weekend first up the kianti 120k by

1:38.7

utmb they dished out golden tickets we got to see courtney versus Rachel a very anticipated, but almost last-minute matchup.

1:48.1

The golden tickets, there was a little bit of a roll-down here on the women's side,

1:52.4

but Engvild Casperson and Lauren Pyrrits on the women's side take the two tickets.

1:57.0

Thomas Cardin and Vincent Bouillard on the men's side.

2:00.0

So those four have punched their tickets, and we've got six left at Canyons next month.

2:06.6

I mentioned that matchup, sort of a Cocodona preview between Courtney and Rachel.

2:11.3

No live stream.

2:12.2

There was supposed to be one at Tenerife the same weekend.

2:15.2

Storms on Tenerife canceled that race. So we saw a lot of athletes,

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