2011 Western States 100 Post-Race Story Roundup
June 27, 2011 by Bryon Powell · 16 Comments
We thought we’d make it easy for all you Western States 100 fans out there by collecting some of the best race coverage from around the web, including articles, photos, videos, interviews, and first-person race reports. We’ll be updating this page as we – both iRunFar and you – identify additional resources. Please feel free to leave a comment noting such resources and your thoughts on the race.
We’ve included the men’s and women’s top 10 at the bottom of this page for those of you who want to find out quickly how the top runners did.
If you’re looking for more on the race, check out our right hand sidebar for video interviews of Kilian Jornet, Ellie Greenwood, and more. You can also take a look at our pre-race 2011 WS100 story roundup.
General Overview Articles
- Full 2011 Western States 100 Results (unofficial)
- Auburn Journal – Women’s Overview
- Auburn Journal – Men’s Overview
- SacBee -Men’s
- SacBee – Women’s (brief)
- A Trail Runner’s Blog (Scott Dunlap)
- UltraRunning (brief)
Interviews/Profiles
- Kilian Jornet – Running Times
- Mike Wolfe (2nd) & Nikki Kimball (3rd) – Bozeman Daily Chronicle
- Greg Soderland – Race Director – SacBee (actually pre-race)
- Photojournalist Becomes a First-Timer – Auburn Journal
First-Person (or close) Race Reports
Men
- Nick Clark – 3rd
- Jez Bragg (quite brief) – 4th
- Timothy Olson (race report) (video)- 6th
- Dave Mackey (brief) (follow up)- 8th
- Andy Jones-Wilkins (race report) (final thoughts)- 9th
- Ian Sharman – 10th
- Geoff Roes – (full) (brief original) – DNF
Women
- Ellie Greenwood (Ellie’s report) (crew report) – 1st
- Kami Semick – 2nd (this is a highly entertaining report)
- Aliza Lapierre (race report) (after thoughts) – 6th
- Meghan Arbogast – 7th
Photos and Videos
- Glenn Tachiyama’s Awesome Photos!
- UltrurnuningPodcast.com photos
- Galen Burrell’s photos
- The Final Mile video (if nothing else, check out the video at 4:30)
- Video of Kami Semick’s and Nikki Kimball’s sprint finish for second
Men’s Top 10 Results (unofficial – times among sources vary by up to about 15 seconds)
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Kilian Jornet and Ellie Greenwood, the 2011 Western States 100 champions. Photo by Bryon Powell.
Kilian Jornet, 23, Catalonia, Spain, 15:34:24
- Mike Wolfe, 33, Helena, Montana, 15:38:29
- Nick Clark, 37, Fort Collins, Colorado, 15:50:23
- Jez Bragg, 30, United Kingdon, 15:55:08
- Tsuyoshi Kaburaki, 42, Japan, 16:07:04 (new masters record breaking his old record of 16:24:55 from 2009)
- Timothy Olson, 27, Ashland, Oregon, 16:18:42
- Graham Cooper, 41, Piedmont, California, 16:34:41
- Dave Mackey, 41, Boulder, Colorado, 16:36:21
- Andy Jones-Wilkins, 43, Ketchum, Idaho, 16:39:30
- Ian Sharman, 30, San Jose, California, 16:40:19
Note: Amazingly, four men broke 17 hours, but did not finish in the top 10. They were Dan Olmstead (16:45:45), Sim Jae-Duk (16:48:22), Shunsuke Okunomiya (16:56:18), and Glen Redpath (16:57:58).
Women’s Top 10 Results (unofficial – times among sources vary by up to about 15 seconds)
- Ellie Greenwood, 32, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 17:55:29
- Kami Semick, 44, Bend, Oregon, 18:17:34
- Nikki Kimball, 40, Bozeman, Montana, 18:17:39
- Tracy Garneau, 42, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada, 18:22:15
- Rory Bosio, 26, Soda Springs, California, 18:37:17
- Aliza Lapierre, 30, Williston, Vermont, 18:45:25
- Meghan Arbogast, 50, Corvallis, Oregon, 18:50:19 (new 50-59 record breaking the old record of 21:58:37 by Diana Fitzpatrick from 2010)
- Amy Sproston, 37, Portland, Oregon, 19:36:54
- Becky Wheeler, 36, Casper, Wyoming, 19:46:54
- Pam Smith, 36, Salem, Oregon, 20:40:48
Last updated July 7, 2011 12 p.m. MDT.
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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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Congrats Bryon, a great run by you and awesome coverage of the race by your team!
There’s a great collection of pics up at UltraRunnerPodcast.com
http://www.ultrarunnerpodcast.com/ultrarunnerpodcast.com/WS100_PHOTOS.html
Way to go Bryon! It was great to see you running so well at Forest Hill, even at that point you looked destined for a great finish. Nice.
We ran the Cool trails that morning and it was anything but cool. Ya’ll must have baked in the canyons. Here’s to Kilian, Ellie, and everyone who toed the line Saturday morning to make it a great event.
Loved the iRunFar coverage, and thanks for keeping the posts and links coming. Look forward to your work at UTMB. Thanks also to your readers who keep finding the good stuff.
Kilian’s final mile is up on youtube and provides one of the best moments of the race when Geoff high fives him just before the track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqrwafZMcck&feature=feedu
This is great! Thanks for telling us about the video. So cool to see Geoff high five Killian near Finish line. Geoff is awesome!!
Kinda nice to see Killian run on pavement for a little gait analysis there, lol. Looks like he’s definitely a midfoot runner… and that’s after 100 miles!! Looks great!!
Hey Bryon great run my friend. You may have just sold another book :-) as you are light of reports of female finishers thought you may like to know that one of Ellie’s crew has posted a good report here that tells it how it is from the crews perspective and how things unfolded – http://kristinop.blogspot.com/2011/06/crew-report-western-states-100-ellie.html
Thanks, Disco Stu. I’ve added Ellie’s crew report.
Great job Bryon! Got me very motivated now for my Badwater 135 in less than two weeks! Just goes to show you can accomplish great things even if you think you’re undertrained. I refuse to believe anybody who’s been at the sport as long as we have is ever truly “undertrained.” I think experience, lot’s of time on the feet and a positive mental attitude will carry you very far even if the physical training may be lacking. While I haven’t run WS nearly as fast as you (not by a long mark) I had a great race myself there in ’02 when I unexpectedly broke 23 hours despite abysmal training leading up to race day… Of course I paid the price in recovery, took a while to get over it, but hey I earned my first Silver Buckle so it was well worth it!
Nice job racing AND reporting.
Nailed both!
Kilians comment (and some of the other top finishers too) was funny when they asked him if he was coming back – maybe not, the race is ‘too flat’. :)
Oh man, Bryon that was absolutely great. This site absolutely made Western States come alive for me. Thank you so much for your efforts!!
Bryon, once again, many thanks for the fantastic coverage!
I promise to donate to iRunFar as soon as I get near secure connection.
Furthemore, congrats on the briliant race +PR , we want to a proper report!
I guess all your fear and concerns stayed at the starting line and you had a nice day of cruising 100 miles :)
Keep up the good work and already looking forward to you UTMB coverage
Damn, Chamonix is definitely closer from Germany than California….
Brian – You’ve got no idea what impact reading your article about your WS100 training has just had on me. I’ve always thought and practiced that when it comes to training mileage its quality over quantity everytime! And you have proved this with what you accomplished on Saturday, on just 40 miles per week! And only 7 runs over 20 miles! that’s amazing. Clearly you are hugely talented as well and we can’t all run as well on that mileage but I needed this, and its perfect timing for me as I contemplate setting out my training schedule for my 100 mile event in August (North Downs Way 100 – UK). Thanks so much. If interested I blogged an article linking to yours here – http://ultradiscostu.blogspot.com/2011/06/ive-been-inspired-brian-powells-western.html
Hey Byron: Thanks for pooling all this great info. Here’s my account as a first timer. http://auburnjournal.com/detail/182028.html?content_source=&category_id=&search_filter=Costas&user_id=&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&event_ts_to=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=1&sub_type=&town_id=
Hey Bryon,
Ryne Melcher has a great writeup of his pacing of Ellie at WS at http://runemelcher.blogspot.com/
Cheers,