The 2017 Western States 100 kicks off at 5 a.m. PDT on Saturday, June 24th in Squaw Valley, California before covering the 100 miles to Auburn. We offer you several different ways to watch the race unfold live:
- We’ll be livecasting the event on iRunFar’s Twitter feed. We’ll also be combining our Twitter feed with other possible news sources below in this article.
- We’ll (attempt to) provide a live video feed from the finish line. And don’t worry, we’ll let you know via our social media channels when these feeds are live!
[Now that the race is over, you can check out our men’s and women’s podium finishing videos, as well as finish-line interviews with the champs, Cat Bradley and Ryan Sandes. We’ve also published iRunFar’s own post-race interview with Ryan Sandes and Cat Bradley.]
Here are a couple resources to help you follow the race:
- iRunFar’s in-depth women’s and men’s Western States previews;
- Our group-think predictions based on over 1,100 reader entries in our prediction contest;
- iRunFar’s video interviews with Magdalena Boulet, Jeff Browning, Jonas Buud, Camille Herron, Kaci Lickteig, Chris Mocko, Alex Nichols, Elov Olsson, Amy Sproston, Stephanie Violett, Jim Walmsley, and YiOu Wang;
- We’ve also collected all of iRunFar’s Western States articles and resources, including all our extensive pre-race coverage of this year’s race;
- Six Intriguing Features of the 2017 Western States 100;
- The Western States website with course map; and
- Live updates of the entire field from Ultralive.net.
A special thanks to Drymax for making our coverage of the Western States 100 possible! Thanks also to GU Energy and Altra for their support of our Western States coverage.
In case you’re looking for a little something to fill any gaps in the coverage, here are some highlights from iRunFar’s Western States 100 archive:
- Our 2016 Western States 100 results article, with links to all of our post-race video interviews;
- An Obsessive’s Description of the Western States 100 Course (Note: There have been some minor updates to the course this year.);
- The Western States Killing Machine Part 1;
- The Western States Killing Machine Part 2: The Marble in the Groove;
- The Lore of Western States: Chasing the Silver Buckle;
- The Lore of Western States: The Golden Hour;
- How the West(ern) Was Won (Pam Smith’s description of how she went about winning the hot 2013 WS100);
- We Dream the Same Dreams: Rehabbing the Western States Trail After the American Fire;
- Ann Trason: The Pioneer Returns.
iRunFar’s Live Coverage of the 2017 Western States 100
Our 2017 Western States 100 Twitter List
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-Bryon Powell, Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar
Go AVERY COLLINS and SABRINA STANLEY !!!! Proud grandparents following back in Virginia!
No more streaming comments? I can’t seem to find it.
Not this time. Couldn’t pull together a full moderation team
That’s a shame. I could probably donate a couple of hours of moderation next time. Drop me an e-mail if that could be of interest: jeanphilmartin “at” gmail “dot” com
Oh! :-(
Was so great last year, followed all night long.
Anyway, thanks Bryon for all the effort!!!
Cheers,
Manuel
I would be up to help moderate next time around as well!
Thanks for all you do Bryon!
-Sean
Just back from a long run my self.
Glad to see that Elov doing well.
And the womens race, top 10 all in 20 minutes. It´s going to be fun to follow.
You go, John Andersen….Grammy and Papa are following you and cheering you on from Williamsburg, VA!
Go Crozet Running!
Bryon, same pity from here on lack of full commentary with the participation of irunfar’s community.
Now I have got an idea. What if we post our comments in this comment thread?
Now we are having two race now: Jim vs Jim’s bision and the whole of runners against the course. Will these two stay separate until the end? Surely it is fun to watch!
Who’s with me?
Go Jamie Nott from Calgary. He is my son in law! Best wishes Jamie…
Go go go Elov and Jonas
240P, Seriously??
Maximum reliable capacity of the wifi network.
Should have interviewed Hammond you morons.
You guys are doing a great job with this coverage. Meghan, nice talking to you today
this is just like making a march madness bracket after all. “nothing is for certain, nothing is for sure, and until we close the curtain… it’s him and I. aquemini.”
heart goes out for walmsley, who i predicted would win (like everyone else)! heart soars for dudes like Sandes who we should have known would show up so strong. the old school rules two years in a row! 100 miler is 100k plus 2/3rd more of that distance. think about that. i feel like a fool for not doing so.
keep the madness coming. such a strange sport.
The sound doesnt work on the live feed for the last 2 finishers
Nice. No sound and you didn’t broadcast the finisher. Major fair. you’re fired.
We didn’t broadcast sound last year, because the race plays music and YouTube will shut down a live broadcast for authorized use of copyrighted music.