2010 Western States 100 Roundup
June 29, 2010 by Bryon Powell · 18 Comments
The Western States 100 is the most widely covered ultramarathon in North America… by a long shot. Rather than bore you with yet another report on the race or some lame photos from our iPhone, we’re gathering the best Western States coverage from around the internet to share with you. Please feel free to note additional resources in a comment.
While we’re not writing a Western States race report, we did put together a pretty tremendous (in our opinion) set of interviews before and after the race. Check out our Western States 100 Index for all of those interviews and additional iRunFar coverage of this and other Western States 100s. OK, ok, to whet your appetite for our coverage, our two most popular interviews are post-race chats with Geoff Roes and Anton Krupicka.
Top Competitors Race Reports
Men
- Goeff Roes (1st) – Geoff now has his full race report up. He previously published a short post entitled, It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than That.
- Anton Krupicka (2nd) – Anton’s lengthy blow-by-blow report is now up on RunningTimes.com. Anton kicked off his reporting on the race with a short note with pictures, saying WS 100 ’10 was the most fun he’d ever had in a race. Anton has now added a great image-based race report.
- Kilian Jornet (3rd) – If you can read Spanish, Kilian has posted his race report. Don’t read Spanish? Here’s a Google translation of the report, which does well enough to convey the race from his perspective.
- Nick Clark (4th) – A thorough race report with fun video of his finish… you can hear Kilian Jornet finish ahead of him. There’s also Justin Mock’s pacer’s report.
- Gary Robbins (6th) – Gary has now posted a full race report from his great run at Western States. Gary first provided a brief report on his very smart run.
- Glen Redpath (7th) – Glen writes of slaying his Western States dragons.
- Ian Sharman (8th) – Ian wrote a novella of his experience in two parts: the first 62 miles & the final 38 miles.
- Andy Jones-Wilkins (9th) – Learn how this 6-consecutive-time top-10 man makes it happen. (For the record, I did pull a superman pacing AJW… but he left out my rebounding via “The Worm.”)
Women
- Meghan Arbogast (2nd) – Meghan reports on “finally getting it.”
- Annette Bednosky (8th) – Former Western States champ talking about running within her training.
- Devon Crosby-Helms (DNF) – Devon was pulled from the course at Michigan Bluff. Her story’s still worth reading.
News Reports
- Full Western States Results
- Endurance Planet Interview with Bryon Powell regarding the race
- Sacramento Bee article regarding the competition
- Sacramento Bee article on Amy Palmiero-Winters, the first amputee to finish Western States
- Auburn Journal article on men’s race
- Auburn Journal article on women’s race
- Auburn Journal article on rookies dominance at this year’s race
- Competitor Running interview with Geoff Roes
- Mail Tribune on Hal Koerner’s DNF
Photos/Videos
- Sacramento Bee slideshow – 25 great photos by Carl Costas
- Glenn Tachiyama’s album – He is the ultra photographer of record. Find out why.
- Luis Escobar’s Facebook album – Luis’s focus and ultra experience pay off in this set of shots.
- Salomon Running album on Facebook – Yes, it’s Kilian heavy, but there are some great shots of the competition.
- Goeff Roes’s final mile on YouTube
Conclusion
Please feel free to leave a comment if you know of a good 2010 Western States 100 race report, photo set, video, article, or other resource.
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- Pre-2011 Western States 100 Story Roundup A round up of pre-race 2011 Western States 100 stories and interviews....
- Kilian Jornet Pre-2010 Western States 100 Interview iRunFar's Bryon Powell interviews Kilian Jornet ahead of the 2010 Western States 100....
Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded five years ago. Also the author of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, he's quickly approaching 10 years as an ultrarunner and 20 years as a trail runner. These days he calls Park City, Utah and its trails home.
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FYI–the Sacramento Bee photo link is actually to the Salomon facebook page.
Thanks, I really appreciate you letting me know, Eric. I’ve corrected the error.
Looks like the Gary Robbins link currently points to the Outside Magazine blog (http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/2010/06/roes-smashes-record-at-western-states-100-.html)
Thanks, Jason. Clearly, I’ve finally hit my sleep deprivation wall. ;-)
Bryon-
Thanks for the coverage of the event! I’ve yet to attempt the distance. And at this point the distance scares the heck (pg13) out of me.
Can you share some of the experinces you had while pacing? Are there any good articles out there about pacing runners through 100 miles? I will have the pacing task at this year’s Oil City 100 and would like to provide the best support possible.
Also, I liked the interviews. I’m glad that I was never in your sights for deposition while you were working for the man in DC.
Keep the good stuff coming. And for the record, the hot and sticky season is well underway in the Mid Atlantic region. Be glad you escaped West.
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Mike
Great job on getting info on everything western states. It’s almost like I was their, but I had to work. Work sucks! I just want to run!
I stumbled on your website just before the race and it was really interesting to get some of the vibe and excitement in the build-up. Really entertaining and informative. And thanks for linking to my book of a race report – as my first 100 I wanted to get down the memories while they’re fresh so I can look at them in the future and it’ll be like I was there again. Doubt anyone other than me will find it too interesting. Cheers, Ian.
Congrats on the great race, Ian. Glad you enjoyed iRunFar’s coverage of the event. As for your book, you’re not alone. I wrote a 10,000 +/- word race report from my Leadville 100 last year … and it was my 6th 100 mile finish. :-)
Gary was 6th … not 7th as you have in this report. Glen Redpath was 7th …
Great race coverage. Thanks for all the hard work!
Thanks! Looks like that hard work caught up to me. ;-)
I really enjoyed on course photos from both Glenn Tachiyama: http://www.pbase.com/gtach/wser2010
and Luis Escobar: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=235533&id=340040187316#!/album.php?aid=235533&id=340040187316
Thanks, Will. I’d been wait for both of these sets to go up.
Bryon, I was in the race and was getting updates from my crew during the day (and night). Being able to sit back and spend another few hours watching the race, interviews, and read the blogs has gotten me re-motivated for next year faster then usual. Thanks for doing this.
Also, will there be another race this year where you will do the same type of coverage (Hardrock, Leadville, Mount Blanc)?
Erik,
I don’t have any other races lined up for this type of coverage. The short story is that I’ve got no budget to cover them. All travel expenses come out of my wallet and there’s more dust than dinero in there. ;-)
I will attend Leadville briefly as La Sportiva is covering my travel to attend the finale of the La Sportiva Mountain Cup in Taos the same Saturday. I’m pacing my Leadville pacer from last year. If I head east early, I may hit Leadville for some pre-race interviews.
I dream of covering Mont Blanc. I may try to pull a rabbit out of my hat on that one. One potential travel sponsor is in… but only if I secure a story commitment from a holy grail magazine. Not gonna happen. I’ll try another option in two weeks. I wish I was better at selling myself to companies, as I think I’d be on par with any other English language commentary they could get. Not trying to sound cocky… as I’m not, I’m just getting more confident that I know how to provide in-depth live coverage of an ultra at this point.
Here is the address to my report. Thanks for rounding all this up Bryon!
http://sherpajohn.blogspot.com/2010/07/rr-2010-western-states-100.html
You’re welcome, SJ. Nice work with the mid-packer interviews.
Congrats on the finish and THE MARRIAGE! Holy moly!
The list is good, but there are only references in English. I leave you here an article I wrote in Catalan http://lajornada.cat/2010/12/27/kilian-jornet-a-la-western-states-aquest-any-si/
which was then translated into Spanish
http://www.corredordemontana.com/component/content/article/173-actualidad/3535-kilian-jornet-a-la-western-states-este-ano-si-.html