2025 Cocodona 250 Live updates and results

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For most of the previous four editions, the Cocodona showed 250 days with hot, relentless sun on the desert paths of the race.

Not this year.

The first two days of this 256-mile race were characterized by cool temperatures, clouds and steady rainpaths in mud. The race went out at a record pace and the runners used the conditions to cross their limits. The Ultraruning Goat Courtney Dauwalter broke out the race for mile 98 after taking the lead for 30 miles. In her entourage, the newcomer Dan Green leads the field to Flagstaff, and 2024 Champion Rachel Entrekin not far behind like the top woman.

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53 hours passed: “What are we waiting for?”

The race director Dan Green has been running for over two full days and he still wants more.

“Okay, what are we waiting for?” Green joked when he left his final crewed aid station in Mile 237.7. It only took a few minutes to download pancakes and cola, to be ashamed of sunscreens and anti-chafe products and attract new shoes. After “only” 18 miles to the finish and well before the record pace before the record of 18 miles was left behind, the West Virginian took up his brother Fred as a pacemaker for the last 2,000 feet on the Elden Mountain. But as if the difficult climb were not enough, Green provided his own challenge: “I will drop him.”

23 miles back in the Fort Tuthill aid station (Mile 214.7) took the rest of the male podium and the women's leader Rachel Entrekin time to recharge and rest during the third morning. Ryan Sandes (South Africa) is in second place after a quick nap in the back of his occupying vehicle, while Edud Ramirez (Mexico) took third place. Ramirez, whose two small children help the crewing, and Entrekin, who broke out into tears, saw their parents on the trail of waiting for them, both looked rejuvenated after some family time when they went on the last miles of the course.

44 hours passed: mud, mud and more mud

On the second night of the race, more cool rain caused a muddy, slippery ascent from Sedona.

The top runners rose to the Coconino Plateau when the Flagstaff course approaches. After a quick nap in Sedona, 2024 winner Rachel Entrekin continues to put on a clinic, while she is the first woman and the third overall through the night. The second wife Lindsey Dwyer is 30 miles behind him, and Sarah Ostaszewski rounds back the women's podium.

On the side of the men, Dan Green came to Munds Park Aid Station (Mile 193.7) with muddy shoes, but in a good mood after expanding the gap over second place Ryan Sandes. Of course, he remains a record pace when he passes mile 200. Sandes made a nap at ten minutes before turning on an additional layer and walking back into the brisk night.

35 hours of passing: Dan Green and Ryan Sandes are neck and neck

The newcomer stands with the veteran.

The 28-year-old Dan Green came to the Sedona Posse Ground's help time in Mile 162 and sat down to check with his crew. Less than three minutes later, 43-year-old Ryan Sandes ran over and met a few meters away with his crew. The two looked up when their crews helped them change their shoes and prepare them for the big climb from Sedona.

Green left at first, but Sandes was not far back what the pressure on and the gap kept small. Green is relatively new in the scene, with third place in Javelina J a hundred last autumn to contribute to a resume from mainly races near Heimat in West Virginia. Sandes, on the other hand, is a decorated veteran with a western state victory from 2017.

Everything can happen in 90 miles, so everyone is still.

30 hours passed: “Yes, I win!”

“Where did everyone know from me?”

Rachel Entrekin didn't know that she was the leader of the new woman and third overall until a live stream video broke the news.

“Yes, I win!” She announced when she stopped at the Dead Horse Aid Station in Mile 134.1.

Enkrin is about six miles behind the overall manager Dan Green, who looked refreshed after he said that he slept 40 minutes overnight. Ryan Sandes is currently in second place and was all worked on the aid station when he continued to chase the lead. Michael Versteeg and DJ Fox round off the top 5 while the racing leaders begin the back half of the course.

26:30 a.m. passed: Courtney is out

Courtney Dauwalter broke off the race in the Mingus Mountain Aid Station, Mile 108.

Dauwalter crossed 100 miles in second place after taking a new pacer in mile 96. However, when she climbed to Mingus, she had to fight with muddy, damp, cold conditions, because steady rain continued for hours and the temperatures fell into the 1930s.

Dan Green continues to lead the race from Dead Horse State Park, Mile 134, with Rachel Entrekin as the first woman and third in total.

24 hours passed: a new day, a new ranking list

There are no guarantees in Cocodona. When constant rain turned the paths into mud and the temperatures fell into the 1930s, we saw another change. Shortly before Mile 100, Dan Green took over the top position from West Virginia and left an energetic “Let's go boys!” When he closed his crew at the Fain Ranch Aid Station, Mile 95.9. Green opted for a quick stop and changed shoes before going up and over the Mingus Mountain, the highest point on the track until the last rise of Mount Elden was up.

In the second day of the race, Green has a solid lead over Ryan Sandes, Rachel Entrekin (the 2024 champion and new top woman) and Michael Versteeg, who descend into the Verde valley, which is separated from less than four miles. Courtney Dauwalter seems to sleep in Mile 108.3 at the Mingus Mountain Aid Station and fall into the seventh overall and second woman.

14 hours passed: Courtney takes the lead

And now we have all been waiting for it: Courtney Dauwalter is the overall leader of the Cocodona 250.

Dauwalter smiled at the Whiskey Row aid station in the mile 77.3 and took the time to keep High Five fans on the way. After running a tunnel of fans to the auxiliary station in the city center of Prescott, she was in and off in a few minutes and ran at the record pace in the first night.

About 10 minutes later the leader of the men's race, Dan Green, came through, the ramen noodles and coordinated the night shift with his crew.

11:30 a.m.

A quarter of the way to this mega race and only four miles separate the top seven.

The defending champion Rachel Entrekin is currently the second woman and fifth in the Camp Kipa Aid Station by 62.3 mile. She sits in the middle of a chase with four men – Canadas Pau Rius, the British Jack Scott, West Virginia Dan Green and South Africa Ryan Sandes.

Who do you hunt? Top candidate Courtney Dauwalter and Harry Subertas, who continue to turn off miles as if they don't know how long this race will take. Speed ​​Demon Subertas races down the descent to Prescott, while Dauwalter quickly wins on ground and closes the gap. The two managers currently run less than a mile apart.

7 hours passed: Subertas continues to calculate before a close chase

Shortly after 12 p.m. on Monday, the crew from Harry Subertas was waiting for him when he was 36.6 mile 36.6 in the Crown King Aid Station. But they could hardly go on when they made their way to their truck, with the racing director apparently more for a 5 km pace than for a 250 mile value. The 2024 champion came to the aid station after 6 hours and 11 minutes and was in a good mood when he made a quick pit stop for watermelon and a gear change.

Almost 30 minutes passed before the next runner appeared, the British Jack Scott, short from Dan Green from West Virginia and the leading wife Courtney Dauwalter (6:44 passed). After a quick stop, Dauwalter took up a place and moved to the third overall rank of the aid station.

When clouds, scattered rain and even a certain snow were reproduced by most runners of last year's sixth place Jeff Garmire: “We are really good pace.”

4 hours passed: The reigning master Harry Subertas leads the men's race, Courtney Dauwalter Top Woman

It is 9 a.m. on Monday, four hours in the Cocodona 250 2025, and this race is out fast. Course record holder and 2024 winner Harry Subertas leads the field with 23.4 miles and an average of 7:30 minutes per miles. Keep it up and it will be finished in less than 43 hours. Remember that its price record time from last year is 59 hours, 50 minutes and 55 seconds. So expect things to slow down when the hours (and vert) slow down.

On the side of the women, Courtney Dauwalter is in the lead after some back and forth masters of women Rachel Entrekin. So far it has been a tight race at the top, with Dauwalter on the fifth overall. For the next 100 miles, the runners stay over 5,000 feet and enjoy cooler temperatures and partially cloudy sky.

May 5th at 5:00 a.m.: The 2025 Cocodona 250 has started

And they are over.

In the middle of severe jubilation from crew and spectators, a group of runners died under the start banner, in which he proclaimed “adventure”.

Adventure indeed – the first 30 miles of the course are almost all uphill, a suitable warming up for the 226 miles. Sprented showers are later in the forecast with temperatures in the 40s and 50s.

“If there is a year, this is,” said 2021 Champ Michael Versteeg. We will see who will follow this mantra at the beginning of this course.