See it before you sign up for it

21 min

A first ultra, on the 50K, filmed at the 2026 race.

5 min

How the race's free-entry-for-a-friend programme for women entering the 100 Mile or 100K works.

10 min

A runner on her third Avalon 50K, on the island views, the wind and the Eagles Nest aid station.

11 min

The 2026 50 Mile from the start line in Avalon to the finish.

The official 2026 photo gallery, searchable by bib number.

20 min

A film of two runners' 100K at the December 2025 race, from the start line to the last lap.

59 min

An hour on a first hundred at High Lonesome, filmed through the day and night by the runner.

An hour with this race's director on where the race came from, how it has changed over four decades, and how it is run.

The race director's account of the 2025 running: how the race started, what the weather and the trail did over 24 hours, and what the overnight aid station is like.

21 min

Two of the organisers run the whole 100K course over two days and narrate it. The best look at what the ground actually is between Fort Baker and Marinwood.

35 min

Three runners of very different speeds through the 2025 race, from the front of the field to a 28 hour finish, adapting to the mid-race reroute.

11 min

A runner misjudges the Sugarloaf 2 cut-off at 41 km and does not finish the 100K, and talks through what he would do differently.

26 min

A first ultra at this race, told afterwards with what the runner would do differently.

49 min

Forty-nine minutes on one runner's 2025 Looking Glass 100k, from the pressure of a goal set months earlier through the day itself. The fullest look at what the race feels like from inside it.

9 min

The race's own overview of the 13.1 mile loop the marathon and half marathon run.

9 min

The race's own overview of the 100K, including the shorter first loop that skips the 40 Acre and Horseshoe Lakes sections.

11 min

The race's own walk through the 16.7 mile main loop the 100 mile runs six times, aid station by aid station.

A runner whose longest previous race was a marathon takes on Looking Glass as their first ultra, spends the middle of the day fifteen minutes ahead of a cutoff, and finishes in the dark. Split by aid station, with what each stretch actually cost.

22 min

A runner who knew going in that they were undertrained films the whole day and finishes anyway. Worth watching if you are on the fence about your own preparation.

12 min

Two runners take on the 2025 edition together and finish in 14:52:50, on a course that was rerouted twice because of fires in the surrounding area.

25 min

Two long days spent running the actual Looking Glass course before race day. The closest thing to a course preview that exists for this race.

57 min

Nearly an hour of footage from the 2025 running, shot on the course.

46 min

A runner who finished the 2020 race goes back five years later to run it in the other direction. Forty-six minutes on what the loop is actually like both ways round.

The race director's own account of the 2025 edition, including the decisions made when the road to Cunard closed mid-race.

45 min

The 2025 race from the front, including the landslide that closed a road and forced the course to be rerouted around mile 80 while runners were out on it.