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Date: Aug. 22, 2026 Participant: Jordan Lorance #96 Race: 2026 Habanero 100 Mile Distance: 100.0 miles

Fast Start Gives Way to a Hard-Earned Finish in the Texas Heat Jordan Lorance completed the 2026 Habanero Hundred 100-Mile in 28:21:33, crossing the line 11th overall (8th male) and 2nd in the M30-39 division out of 79 total finishers across the event. Racing on a course run in triple-digit real-feel Texas heat, Jordan finished with roughly 90 minutes to spare before the notorious 30-hour cutoff, a meaningful buffer on a course where the sport's own data shows only 198 hundred-mile finishes were recorded in the event's first decade combined. The race splits tell a classic ultra story of early strength meeting late-race attrition. Jordan opened blistering, holding a rock-steady 10:08 min/mile pace through the first five miles good enough for 6th in the men's field and the division lead. That pace held near 11:20-12:30 min/mile through the middle miles (roughly miles 6-24), still anchoring 1st in the M30-39 group for long stretches. From there, the accumulated heat and mileage produced a gradual and steady positive split: overall pace climbed past 14:00 min/mile by mile 40, past 16:00 min/mile by mile 62, and settled around 17:20 min/mile by the finish, with several individual lap splits stretching into the 25-40 minute range in the race's second half a common signature of extended aid-station time or fatigue management on a course intentionally designed to punish with heat exposure early rather than late. Given the sharp gap between the sub-10:30 opening pace and the eventual mid-17:00 finishing pace, there's an opportunity to bank slightly less speed in the opening loops and redistribute that effort deeper into the race, particularly on a course where the field itself is engineered to test heat tolerance from the gun. Holding top-10 position for much of the middle and late race, despite the fade, speaks well to Jordan's resilience through 28-plus hours on the "hottest trail race" in Texas.