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21 min

A runner's account of the 2021 race, run on a course that had been changed to take out one of the biggest climbs.

21 min

The middle segment of the same preview series, including the Blue Heron loop. Filmed in the clockwise direction.

28 min

Twenty eight minutes from the 2021 race, filmed on site with the runners and the race director. The most watched piece of film about this race.

21 min

Two runners cover the first stretch of the course on foot, filmed in the clockwise direction, so an even-year runner is watching this section in reverse. Bears, heat and running out of water included.

1h 11m

The three runners who went furthest in 2021 talking through the race, an hour after the fact, with the winner at 41 yards and 170.8 miles.

1h 03m

An hour with the runner who was the assist at the 2021 race and had won it in 2019 and 2020, recorded days after the finish.

40 min

Forty minutes shot on the course from the runner's own camera, with his crew and pacer filming too.

1h 05m

An hour with the runner who was the assist at the 2021 race, 56 yards and 233 miles, in his first backyard.

23 min

A history of the race from Vic Clapham and the 34 starters of 1921 onwards, published for the centenary of the first running.

12 min

A runner going back over the day that ended his race, in more detail than his race video had room for.

14 min

A Las Vegas local runs the 100K on his home trails, goes out hard and spends the back half holding on.

38 min

The whole 100K course start to finish, filmed on the trails rather than on race day and sped up, with time codes so you can jump to each aid station. The creator also explains where the 50K splits away.

34 min

A short film about how the race came to exist and how the first one went, following the race directors and several of the runners.

3 min

Three minutes on the Southside Trail along the New River, the six miles of ghost town ruins between the Arbuckle Connector and Cunard.

36 sec

The race's own flyover of the night loop, the out and back on the closed park road that runners switch to at nine in the evening. The race calls it your thirteenth hour loop.

42 sec

The race's own flyover of the 4.167 mile trail loop, the one that runs by day. Forty seconds, and the fastest way to see the shape of the lap and where the climbing sits.

14 min

A film of the 2020 running, shot on the course. It is the fullest look at what the high alpine sections and the aid stations actually look like.

8 min

The race's own film of the Kaymoor Trail in the direction a runner actually runs it, past the coal mining ruins.

13 min

The race's own film of the out and back down Thurmond Road to the aid station over the New River, the stretch a runner covers once and does not see again.

8 min

The race's own film of the Butcher Branch to Kaymoor stretch, the one that carries the wooden staircase the race calls the steepest section on the course.

A runner's written account of the first Rim to River 100, in 2020.

57 min

Nearly an hour of one runner's day at the first running of the race in 2020, filmed on the course from start to finish.

The race director talking through what he built and what runners should expect, recorded the week before the first running.

37 min

The whole loop run without a pacer and without a crew, in the counterclockwise direction, which is the direction 2026 runs.

46 min

Forty six minutes on the 2019 race, following the field rather than the front. The race puts it on its own home page.