Emelie Forsberg, the Swede who demolished the 30-year-old Mount Marathon women's record on the Fourth of July, picked up another big mountain running victory soon after wowing the field in Seward.
Eight days after dominating Alaska's most famous footrace, Forsberg was in France, winning the Ice Trail Tarentaise in Val d'Isere to capture the European Skyrunning women's championship.
Forsberg won the 40-mile race in the French Alps in a time of 9 hours, 17 minutes, 21 seconds. She was six minutes off the course record she set in 2014.
The course featured 16,400 feet of climbing and touched five peaks near the 10,000-foot range, including 12,000-foot Grande Motte.
Forsberg, 28, had little recovery time between Mount Marathon and the race in France. She raced Mount Marathon on a Saturday, completing the 3,022-foot race up and down the Seward mountain in 47:47, taking nearly three minutes off Nancy Pease's 30-year mark of 50:30. Then she traveled to France for the July 12 Skyrunning race.
The day after her triumph in the Alps, Forsberg tweeted that she was feeling good after the difficult double-win.
"Surprisingly I feel ok in my legs today!" she wrote. "What a good feeling after 10000m up & down! I felt more after mount marathon."
Forsberg and her boyfriend, Spain's Kilian Jornet, both followed up record-setting Mount Marathon performances with victories in endurance runs.
Jornet, who won the men's race in Seward in 41:48, shaving more than a minute off the record, won the 100-mile Hardrock 100 endurance race in Colorado seven days after Mount Marathon. Running a rugged course in the San Juan Mountains, Jornet's time of 22:41:33 was a record by more than 40 minutes.