Sage Canaday
Bio
Sage Canaday, an Oregon Native, is an accomplished runner in multiple disciplines on both the trail and the road. He attended Cornell University and at the age of 21 was the youngest runner at the 2008 Olympic Trials Marathon. The same year, Sage won the Ivy League 10,000 meter Championship.
Canaday began his pro career running the road marathon as part of the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project setting personal bests at the half marathon in 1:04:32 and in the marathon 2:16:52
2012 brought significant changes for Sage, as he burst on the Ultra Scene dominantly in the mid-distance Ultra Running events with a focus on trails. In his Ultra debut he placed 2nd at the Chuckanut 50k and won the UATF Mountain Running Championship. In 2014, his success continued with victories at the USATF 100k Trail Championship, Speedgoat 50k, Lake Sonoma 50 Mile, Cayuga Trails 50 and Tarawera 100k.
2014 brought continued success on the trails with victories at the North Face 50 Mile, Speedgoat 50k and Pikes Peak Ascent.
In 2015 he sought to refocus on the road marathon placing 8th among Americans at the Los Angeles USATF Marathon Championship and 16th overall at the Boston Marathon. Sage also traveled to the largest Ultra Race in the World, the Comrades Marathon placing 15th in a field of 25,000 taking place on the paved road between the cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
In 2016, '17 & '18 Sage continued his quest to challenge himself with victories at Lake Sonoma 50 Mile, Shamrock 15k, Hell of the West 1/2 Marathon and Black Canyon 100k.
Sage looks to continue competing at a high level on the roads and trails at distances from the 10km to 100 miles now and in the future.
Career Highlights
- P2 2019 Pikes Peak Marathon
- P2 2019 Moab Red Hot 55k
- P6 2018 Pikes Peak Marathon
- Winner 2018 Shamrock 15k
- P9 2018 Houston Marathon
- P17 2018 Copenhagen Marathon
- P2 2018 Speedgoat 50k
- Winner 2017 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile
- P3 2017 Chuckanut 50k
- P2 2017 Mount Washington Road Race
- P3 Hong Kong Ultra 100k
- P7 2016 North Face 50 Mile
- P2 2016 Moab Trail Marathon
- Winner Hell of the Northwest 1/2 Marathon
- P3 2016 Transvulcania 77k
- Winner 2016 Black Canyon Ultra 100k
- Winner 2015 Speedgoat 50k
- Winner 2015 Kendall Mountain 12 Mile
- P15 2015 Comrades Marathon
- Winner 2014 North Face 50 Mile
- P3 2014 Transvulcania 77k
- P2 Run The Rut 50k
- Winner 2014 Pikes Peak Ascent 1/2 Marathon
- Winner 2014 Speedgoat 50k
- P3 2014 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile
- Winner 2014 Northburn 50k (NZL)
- Winner 2014 Tarawera Ultra 69k
- P2 2013 Moab Trail Marathon
- P6 2013 UROC 100k
- Winner 2013 Speedgoat 50k
- Winner 2013 Cayuga Falls 50 Mile
- P3 2013 Trasvulcania 83k
- Winner 2013 Lake Sonoma 50 Mile
- Winner 2013 Tarawera Ultras 100k
- Winner 2013 Bandera 100k
- P2 2012 UROC 100k
- P4 2012 Pikes Peak Ascent 1/2 Marathon
- Winner 2012 White River 50 Mil
- P3 2012 Summer Roundup 12k
- P2 2012 Chuckanut 50k
