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43 min

A long-form documentary of a first-time 50-miler at the 2nd annual Tuscazoar race, on the pre-2024 course.

An hour with two runners on their Never Summer 100K.

One of the few 100Ks that was not cancelled in 2020, run with modifications to the course and the aid stations.

2h 00m

Two hours of footage from the 20th running in 1998, linked from the race's own history page as media coverage. The course, the aid stations and the people, a quarter of a century ago.

17 min

Long stretches of the interior fire roads and the coastline, filmed on the move.

A long-form conversation about running the Never Summer 100K.

2 min

A two-minute local television report filmed during the race, on why it runs for 55 hours.

A report that spends its time on the middle of the race, from mile 44 onward, where the day stops being about the miles.

A local television segment on the midnight race on Highway 375 near Area 51.

10 min

Ten minutes on the race loop at running pace. Filmed in 2019, when the course ran the way it does in a west year.

An hour on preparing for Bighorn, the mud, resisting comfort at aid stations and what pacers do.

A 2019 account of the race, written by someone who had DNF'd Old Dominion decades earlier and came back.

1h 01m

An hour with a runner talking about the race, recorded live the week it was run.

2 min

What it takes to stand up Aid Station #3 in the snow: hundreds of pounds of water, food and costumes carried about a mile uphill on foot.

59 min

An hour with the 2019 winner on how he ran this course.

4 min

A mid-pack runner who took the 7am early start films his day on a snowed-in 2019 course, and finishes.

A preview written the week of the snowiest edition in recent memory.

19 min

The race's own short film of the 2018 running, and the best look at the whole loop from the people who built it.

The whole travel weekend, the ferry from Dana Point, and what a rain-shortened 50 Mile felt like.

A first hundred at Cascade Crest, told from the training year through the finish. Written for a runner who has never gone this far.

A mid-pack runner's account of running the Bear Chase 50K, covering course impressions and advice for future entrants.

A 72 year old runner came for the buckle, could not keep anything down, fell behind the cutoff on the technical stretch between miles 17 and 26, and stopped. He writes about the race as a great one anyway.

A runner who drove down from Kansas City on two days' notice writes up her first trail ultra, mile by mile: the leaves hiding the rocks, three rolled ankles, what the climb called Butt Slide is actually like to go up, and pulling out at an aid station after going off course. It is the fullest account of this course anyone has published.

A finisher's first-hand account of the Whitetop-to-Abingdon out-and-back-and-out course: the trestle bridges, the named aid stations, the climb back up to the Whitetop turnaround, and the race director's welcome at the finish.

20 min

"On August 12th, 2017 Eric Kough set out to run his first 100 miler in Pennsylvania. The Eastern States 100 is an incredibly challenging race that pushes your physical and mental toughness to the absolute limit."