Rachel Wins

Her time: 56:09:48.

She lowered the OVERALL course record by over 2.5 hrs. Just insane, just insane. Huge congratulations!

Posted: 6 May 26 1:18 pm PST

Up and Down Elden and to the Finish

It’s a new day in Cocodona land. The only constant: Rachel, in first place, moving as if she’s just out on a neighborhood stroll. Insane.

Posted: 6 May 26 9:02 am PST

A note from race management

Statement released via IG:

We are deeply saddened to share that a participant experienced a serious medical emergency Today during the event and has passed away. The runner’s family and crew have been notified.

RIP to the runner and love to the family and friends.

Posted: 6 May 26 7:59 am PST

Into the Second Night

• Mile 198.1: Rachel, still uncontested in the lead. She feels untouchable.
• Mile: 195.6: Kilian, still in the lead in the men’s race and holding strong in OA2.
• Mile: 190.6: Cody, going strong, M2.
• Mile: 179.9: Heather, going strong, F2.
• Mile 179.1: Joe in 3rd and 5th overall with a huge comeback over these last few hours. (Hope the tracker is correct here!)
• Mile 177: DJ Fox snuck in ahead of Courtney and Zach.
• Mile: 176.6: Courtney and Zach, close together all day, yo-yoing for placement over these last few hours.

Posted: 5 May 26 9:50 pm PST

The Sleep Factor

The question of sleep will become an interesting factor as the race drags on. So far it seems the race leaders have spend very little time not moving. How will this change in the next few hours as runners are heading into their second night? And more importantly, will anyone be able to take advantage of their competitors resting, move themselves up in the leaderboard, and maybe even challenge the race leaders Rachel Entrekin (OA1) and Kilian Korth (M1)?

Posted: 5 May 26 1:50 pm PST

Rachel

Leaving the Sedona aid station race leader Rachel Entrekin is 3 hours! under course record time. Is ANYBODY going to be able to catch Rachel, the two winner of the Cocodona 250 women’s race in 2025 and 2024?

Less than a hundred miles to go for her. (what a sentence to write… ha).

Posted: 5 May 26 1:21 pm PST

Here For the Women’s Race

Three women are in the top 5 overall at around mile 150.

1. Rachel Entrekin, 4. Heather Jackson, 5. Courtney Dauwalter.

We will see how this all plays out in the coming 100! miles.

Posted: 5 May 26 10:50 am PST

Some Notable DNFs

Kevin Taddonio – leader for the first 50+miles, this almost unknown runner who had the commentators scrambling trying to figure out who he is and who took to Instagram himself to call previous year’s winner Dan Green to ask for help on what to do in his position has since DNF’ed. Not sure the reason, but apparently ‘go big or go home’ seems to have not worked for Kevin.

Max Jolliffe – online fan favorite has DNF’ed. Last year he was forced to DNF’ed close to the finish with a medical emergency, this year he only made just over 100 miles.

Cameron Hanes – showed a big gash on his forehead after a fall in the early miles, has since DNF’ed at miles 61. Sage must be happy.

Adam Kimble – toying in the early days with the leaderboard has DNF’ed.

Michael Versteeg – fan favorite at big desert races is labeled DNF.

Posted: 5 May 26 8:30 am PST

Good morning on day two

We’re now 27 hrs and change into Cocodona 250 and after the first night where the top runners have reached, or are close to reaching the distance halfway point we finally have some development that makes spectating interesting. Sadly the various communication tools available (Instagram, Tracker, Livestream) still make it next to impossible to figure out what place any of the leaders currently hold. The most technology supported event oftentimes feels just one step removed from the purposely obscured Barkley Marathons. I’ll be spending some time this morning digging through the various tools trying to make sense of it all and will update here – stay tuned.

Posted: 5 May 26 8:20 am PST

Night Falls on Day 1

Biggest story, albeit not very surprising is that Rachel Entrekin is the overall leader heading into the first night.

• Trackers are still wonky (probably UTMB’s fault).
• Top 20 on both the men and women field are still very much in play for the podium.
• Earlier this evening some folks (Courtney/Heather) went off course for a couple of miles (still trying to put all the pieces together).

Posted: 4 May 26 9:14 pm PST

50 Mile Mark

Updated the leaderboard according to what the tracker is showing. Not sure how reliable this is, but we’re going with it – for now.

Posted: 4 May 26 1:57 pm PST

Courtney in 2nd

At Crown King she’s about 10min behind Rachel in 2nd place in the women’s race.

Heather Jackson in 3rd closely behind Courtney arrives at the aid stations shortly after Courtney left.

Posted: 4 May 26 12:04 pm PST

The followers

Rachel Entrekin, Kilian Korth, Joe McConaughy arrive at Crown King together, along with all the media covering the race.

Posted: 4 May 26 11:48 am PST

First to Crown King

Kevin Taddonio leading the race, arriving at the Crown King aid station (36.6m). He took a moment to reset = new shoes/shirts, etc. before heading out alone, ahead of the rest of the field.

So far his competitors are letting him lead without the rush of trying to close the gap so early in the race.

Posted: 4 May 26 11:42 am PST

Kevin Taddonio

Still in the lead with about 9min over of the chase pack ahead of Lane Mountain aid station at mile 32.6 (~6hr 20min elapsed)

Posted: 4 May 26 11:22 am PST

Cocodona 250

Current leaderboard taking from the official tracking page.

* As always with these trackers, take the data with a grain of salt. Trackers in the wild can be tricky.

Posted: 30 April 26 1:59 pm PST